Politico: Sonny Perdue faces ethics questions over his business holdings

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue pledged in 2017 to separate himself from his multimillion-dollar business holdings that could pose conflicts of interest in his public duties. But last year, he disclosed he had become trustee of a newly formed fund that includes many of the same assets as his original family trust.

American Oversight and another watchdog group, Accountable.US, claim that violates Perdue’s 2017 agreement with ethics officials that he would restructure his original family trust and transfer all of its stock in Perdue Business Holdings to a new, irrevocable trust that wouldn’t be overseen by or benefit the secretary.