The US Department of Justice is now suing Omarosa, but not for any reason you would have predicted:
YAHOO NEWS – The United States on Tuesday sued Omarosa Manigault Newman, the former aide to President Donald Trump and reality television star, saying she knowingly failed to file a required public financial disclosure report after she left the White House.
The government is seeking a civil fine of up to $50,000 from Omarosa, who spent 11 months as director of communications in the White House Office of Public Liaison before her December 2017 dismissal.
Omarosa, as she is typically known, was accused of violating the Ethics in Government Act by not filing the report, which was required because her salary exceeded $124,406, despite several oral and written reminders from White House ethics lawyers.
According to the complaint filed with the federal court in Washington, D.C., Omarosa’s financial disclosure report had been due by Jan. 18, 2018, one month after she left the White House.
The complaint said the White House later referred the matter to the Department of Justice, and the lawsuit was authorized on March 17, 2019, nearly a year after Omarosa had twice acknowledged receiving reminders to file the report.
When I first saw the headline I thought the lawsuit might have been about all the secret recording Omarosa did when she was in the White House.
According to Omarosa’s lawyer, she claims she didn’t file her disclosure because the White House still owes her some documents:
John Phillips, a lawyer for Omarosa, in an emailed statement called the lawsuit “premature, retaliatory and yet another attempt to silence a dissenting voice.”
He said Omarosa had not filed the report because the White House withheld documents she needed to complete it, and that it was “untrue” to suggest her failure to file was knowing and willful, as the complaint alleged.
Silence her? How would this even silence her. She’s not behind bars.
Also, is she even speaking nowadays? The last time I heard from her seems like a long time ago when all of her secret recordings to expose Trump amounted to nothing.
In any event, if successful it sounds like the DOJ may get a pound of flesh from Omarosa and I doubt anyone in the White House will be crying about it.