​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is an independent federal investigative and prosecutorial agency. Our basic authorities come from four federal statutes: the Ci​vil Service Reform Act, the Whistleblower Protection Act, the Hatch Act, and the Uniformed Services Employment & Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA).​

In November of 2019, I requested all e-mails within OSC that contained the word “CONWAY.” However, through communication with OSC, I amended the request to include all records pertaining to OSC’s investigations on Kellyanne Conway. The approximate dates of responsive records include October 2018 through June 2019.

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Office of Special Counsel Investigations on Kellyanne Conway, October 2019 – June 2019 [331 Pages, 42MB]

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According to Wikipedia:

On February 9, 2017, during an appearance on Fox & Friends, Kellyanne Conway discussed department store Nordstrom’s decision to drop products supplied by Ivanka Trump’s business. “Go buy Ivanka’s stuff is what I would tell you”, declared Conway; she elaborated “It’s a wonderful line. I own some of it. I’m going to give a free commercial here: Go buy it today, everybody. You can find it online”.

Within hours, two organizations filed formal ethics complaints against Conway for violating federal law prohibiting use of a federal position “for the endorsement of any product, service or enterprise”. Public Citizen asked the Office of Governmental Ethics (OGE) to investigate, saying that Conway’s remarks reflected “an on-going careless regard of the conflicts of interest laws and regulations of some members of the Trump family and Trump Administration”. The group’s president, Robert Weissman, declared that “Since she said it was an advertisement, that both eliminates any question about whether outsiders are unfairly reading into what’s being said, and two, it makes clear that wasn’t an inadvertent remark”. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a similar complaint with the OGE and with the White House Counsel’s Office; the group’s executive director, Noah Bookbinder, stated “This seems to us to be about as clear-cut a violation as you can find”.

I filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the OGE, for all emails to/from OGE Directory Walter M. Shaub, and OGE Spokesperson Seth Jaffe, that come up after searching for “KELLYANNE” or “CONWAY”.

Although still being processed as of March of 2017, I did receive notification that some documents were released, which I have added here. I will update this page as more records are released.

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 Communications regarding Kellyanne Conway from February 8 ,2017, through February 14, 2017 [225 Pages, 10.5MB]

 Public Comments regarding Kellyanne Conway from February 9, 2017, through February 14, 2017 [1,610 Pages, 132.5MB]

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