Treasury Investigated Employee Who Took Part in Capitol Riots
The agency’s inspector general found that the employee broke through police barricades on Jan. 6
Demonstrators and US Capitol police fight over a barricade as the Capitol building grounds are breached on Jan. 6, 2021.
Photographer: Bloomberg/BloombergHappy FOIA Friday. This week, I’m setting my sights on the Treasury Department, a sprawling government bureaucracy that oversees the Internal Revenue Service, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, US Mint and more. If you haven’t yet, sign up now to get it delivered to your inbox every Friday.
With more than 100,000 employees, a $14 billion budget, and a former Treasury Secretary (Steven Mnuchin) who executive produced The Lego Batman Movie, I’d bet a 1933 Double Eagle gold coin that there’s always something interesting going on behind the scenes.