And now Suzanne Israel Tufts has resigned from the federal government. Good. She was originally brought on board by Ben Carson to approve a $31,000 dining table for his office (and as a reward for working on the Trump campaign). She did such a good job enabling corruption at HUD that the powers that be decided she’d be the perfect person to quash the four ongoing investigations into Ryan Zinke’s corruption. She was just in the process of being put in “charge” of those investigations when, thanks to Democrats sounding the alarm, the whole thing backfired (see the Maddow show segment above). Now Tufts is exiting the government completely – probably to avoid more public scrutiny.
A top Trump administration political appointee who just two days ago was on track to lead the Interior Department’s inspector general’s office resigned Friday from the federal government, according to an administration official.
Suzanne Israel Tufts was scheduled to be interviewed Friday morning for another inspector general position elsewhere in the government, according to a person with knowledge of the interview. But she did not show up for the appointment.
Her departure ends a madcap week, as the administration quickly scuttled an arrangement to make Tufts acting Interior watchdog amid media reports and scrutiny from Capitol Hill lawmakers. Tufts did not respond to messages left on her cellphone.
