Former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has a new job, making more than $100,000 a year with a gold-mining firm that’s pursuing project approvals involving the federal agency that Zinke left less than four months ago.
, said Tuesday that his new consulting job does not violate any prohibitions on post-administration lobbying.
Karr says Zinke would receive a total of $114,000 a year in salary and stock as a board member and under a one-year consulting contract. The company’s filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission says Zinke will also receive an expense allowance of up to $120,000 a year. The purpose of federal lobbying freezes on recently departed senior officials is “to make sure there there’s a cooling-off period so the former agency is not subject to the influence of their former head,” Canter said.
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