An ethics lawyer in President Donald
Trump’s White House has resigned after spending nearly a year working on
financial disclosure issues.
James Schultz said he had discussed the matter of
his departure with Don McGahn, lead White House counsel, “very early on”.
“I was interested in continuing with private
practice and saw this as a tremendous opportunity to go serve and get things up
and running and the plan was to move on about this time”, Mr Schultz said.
He is moving to law firm Cozen O’Connor in
Philadelphia, where he previously worked prior to the White House position.
Mr Schultz said his resignation late last week was
not related to the ongoing alleged
