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Trump's Interior Department head Ryan Zinke is out. Here are the ethics probes that plagued the controversial secretary.

Ellen Cranley,Ellen Cranley   

Trump's Interior Department head Ryan Zinke is out. Here are the ethics probes that plagued the controversial secretary.

Ryan Zinke

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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke testifies before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee March 13, 2018 in Washington, DC. Zinke testified on the proposed FY2019 budget for the Interior Department.

  • Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is stepping down, President Donald Trump announced Saturday.
  • Trump said Zinke would be leaving at the end of the year and his replacement would be announced next week.
  • Zinke is at the center of several ethics probes, including misuse of taxpayer money, promoting projects to further his political interests, and the stifling of climate change research.

President Donald Trump announced Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke would be leaving the administration by the end of the year. Zinke has been the subject of more than a dozen ethics inquiries into his time at the head of the department.

Here are the active investigations into Zinke:



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