A staffer with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency allegedly helped conduct April layoffs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, including the dismissal of the same ethics lawyers who reportedly warned him days earlier over his stock holdings in companies that were barred under ethics rules.
In early April, agency ethics lawyers warned Gavin Kliger, 25, that his stock holdings included companies on the agency’s “Prohibited Holdings” list, ProPublica reports.
