Acting EPA head Andrew Wheeler gets $2,000 in free burgers every month

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published 11 January 2019

The Office of Government Ethics may have some beef with Andrew Wheeler.

The acting Environmental Protection Agency chief receives more free burgers each month than any healthy person should eat. Check out this bite of a financial disclosure form, which the nonpartisan Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington spotted and the Center for Responsive Politics' Anna Massoglia shared.

Executive branch officials have to disclose their financial interests to the ethics office. It helps prevent conflicts of interest, and also answered why Wheeler "promoted Lucky Buns so much on his personal Twitter" even after he joined the EPA, Mother Jones' Rebecca Leber says. Lucky Buns later hopped in to say Wheeler "helped us get off the ground two years ago as an investor," and they offer free burgers "to all our investors."

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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.