Watchdog Group: White House Legislative Wife Senator Creates Conflict of Interest

The Watchdog Group has accused Sen. Sheldon White House (Dr.I.) of ethical violations for leading his wife's employer pocket to a tone of over $14 million.

In a letter to Senate Ethics Committee Chairman James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Vice President Chris Coons (D-del.), the Foundation for Accountability and Citizen Trust (Facts) was founded in White. House says he voted for the law that took millions into the environment, or dressed that he hired his wife or paid to her consulting company.

The facts argue that the White House vote is a conflict of interest. And in fact, it is also because his wife will bring financial benefits to him.

Ocean Conservancy's big money

The fact is that I laid out the case in a four-page letter from Executive Director Kendra Arnold.

Noting that White House wife Sandra has been struggling for Ocean Conservancy since 2008, Arnold explains that the group has “paid the White House since 2017 through consulting firm Ocean Winks LLC.” And before that I paid directly.”

Since 2008, the group has lived in the taxpayer's pockets 19 times and walked away with about $14.2 million. Half of that loot was collected in the fall of 2024, and “the White House Senator voted in person.”

“In September 2024, Ocean Conservancy received a $5.2 million federal grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for marine debris cleaning up,” writes Arnold.

The grant was funded by the Biden administration's “bipartisan infrastructure law,” voted in support of the Sheldon White House. In December 2024, the Ocean Conservancy received $1.7 million in federal funds from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to help clean up marine debris. The grant was funded as part of the EPA's annual budget bill, which was also voted on by the White House Senator.

These two grants alone look like a conflict of interest, but it's even worse in the context of a long history of White House senators lobbying by an organisation tied to their wives. In total, Ocean Conservancy has spent millions on federal lobbying costs over the years on issues related to ocean, climate change and environmental cleanup. Co-founder of the committee and the Senate's so-called “Marine Caucus.”

The Ocean Conservancy wrote that, as if it weren't suspicious enough, it urged Congress to pass a law introduced by the White House senators, known as the International Maritime Pollution Accountability Act.

Ocean Conservancy has “separated billions of dollars in funding for coastal restoration projects.” The White House Senator boasted about $3 billion in grant funds for port and coastal restoration in “measures backed by the Port White House.”

Wife Sandra, details of Senate Ethics Rules

Ocean Conservancy isn't just an environmental group packing big money into Sandra White House wallets.

She was “paid from other organisations that lobbyed the Senate for laws related to her husband and received government contracts or federal funds,” Arnold explained.

That last complaint appeared in an ethical complaint from judicial oversight last year.

Mrs. White House's professional activities created a clear conflict of interest with the official duties of the White House Senator. Not only has the White House Senator not refrained from voting on environmental laws that directly benefit his wife's clients (and hence his wife), but he has repeatedly sponsored laws that he has repeatedly supported and repeatedly supported. His wife's client constitutes a “limited class” of beneficiaries of such federal funds.

Citing the daily caller, Judicial Watch told Coons and Lankford that the White House has introduced legislation on almost 20 issues related to his wife's consulting work.

Therefore, Arnold cited Senate Rule 37, which prohibits what the senators did.

The Member shall not receive compensation or permit compensation to be approved by any source for his beneficial interest. That receipt or occurrence will not be allowed to occur due to inappropriate effects from his position as a member. The officer, or employee, shall knowingly use his official position to implement or assist in the progress or passage of the Act. Its main purpose is to further promote his financial interests alone. Or, only the financial benefits of a limited class of person or company are members of the affected class where he or his near relatives, or the company they control.

The rules also address cases where the actions of the senators that benefit his wife actually benefit him. It is called self-dealing.

The rule also prohibits the emergence of fraud.

“The White House Senator recently voted directly for a law that would allow $6.9 million in taxpayer funds to an organization whose wife works and earns money,” writes Arnold.

This circular relationship appears to be directly in opposition to Senate rules that broadly prohibit senators from using the power of their office to appear to benefit themselves and their spouses.

Arnold's letter contains 16 footnotes making factual claims to the White House.

Ocean Conservancy told Fox News: Sandra White House, a respected marine ecologist and marine policy consultant, is not compensated from these federal grants assigned to marine reserves. ”

Perhaps, however, Ocean Conservancy also knows that money can be substituted.

Fox News also said the facts “work primarily to draw attention to potential Democrats' ethical violations.” ”

Another skilled Democrat self-dealer, who is representative of Minnesota's Ilhan Omar, has given her husband's consultant about $3 million in campaign money for the 2020 election.