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Jake Johnson

DeJoy may have new conflict of interest

United States Postmaster General Louis Dejoy looks on during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing. Graeme Jennings-Pool/Getty Images

A watchdog investigation published Thursday revealed that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy owns stock in the manufacturer of rapid coronavirus tests that the U.S. Postal Service has been delivering to households as part of the Biden administration's pandemic response.

The Project on Government Oversight (POGO) discovered DeJoy's Abbott Laboratories holding in an examination of the scandal-plagued postmaster general's financial filings, which the group notes "show no evidence of him having fully divested that stock," leaving him positioned to profit off Abbott's partnership with the White House.

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