Ryan Zinke becomes 1st former Trump Cabinet member to join a lobbying firm

Former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke stepped down in December, the focus of multiple investigations, but he's landed on his feet.

Zinke is now a senior adviser with the Washington, D.C., lobbying firm Turnberry Solutions, where he will focus on defense and energy matters in Washington, California, and Montana. He is the first former member of President Trump's Cabinet to join a lobbying firm, Politico reports. Zinke's not the only person in Trump's orbit to get a job at Turnberry Solutions; his former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, also just signed on as a senior adviser. Jason Osborne, a partner at the firm, told Politico that Zinke will likely register as a lobbyist, but Lewandowski will not.

While Zinke was leading the Interior Department, he was the subject of at least 15 investigations, The Washington Post reports. One involved his link to a real estate deal with a company regulated by the Interior Department, and another looked at his use of a security detail during a vacation in Turkey.

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