Once Pam Bondi is confirmed as attorney general, she will be free to handle matters involving some of her former lobbying clients, thanks to an agreement she signed with federal government officials.
That agreement will not prove to be unusual in the second Trump administration.
Chris Wright, after his expected confirmation as energy secretary, will oversee federal policy as it relates to oil and gas companies nationwide, even as he expects to receive a million-dollar bonus from the Colorado-based oil-industry service company he currently runs.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., if confirmed as health secretary, intends to allow a member of his family to accept a cut of the proceeds in a group of lawsuits pending against one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, even as he will have oversight of the Food and Drug Administration.
Those are just a few details included in publicly released letters that lay out negotiated agreements between the members of the new administration and federal ethics officials.
These letters, and associated financial disclosures, illustrate the extraordinary wealth of Mr. Trump’s cabinet picks, as well as the uncharacteristically large list of potential conflicts of interest with which they enter the government.
