The U.S. State Department post a rather bizarre notice this week in the Federal Register , explain that an probe was afoot to chance abottle of whisky . Why ? The bottle was generate to former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on June 24 , 2019 and value at $ 5,800 . And it ’s illegal for U.S. government officials to take anything worth over $ 390 from a strange government .
“ The Department is looking into the affair and has an ongoing interrogation , ” the State Department said in its notice published in the Federal Register .
A spokesperson for Pompeo differentiate theNew York Timesthe former Secretary of State does n’t know what pass to the nursing bottle . It ’s acceptable for officials to take gifts if they bear the full damage of the item to the U.S. Treasury , but it ’s not at all clear what happen here .
Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a press conference with the Israeli Prime Minister and Bahrain’s Foreign Minister in Jerusalem on 10 March 2025.Photo: Menahem Kahana (Getty Images)
The notification in the Federal Register also includes other gifts go for by the State Department and where they reside now . It ’s typical for lavish particular to be sent to museums or the General Services Administration and formally become property of the United States .
For illustration , the Federal Register filing notes that Pompeo find an eagle statue prize at more or less $ 1,670 from Khalid bin Salman Al Saud , the defense curate of Saudi Arabia , on March 28 , 2019 . That statue was in good order transferred to the GSA .
Pompeo was one of the chief enablers of authoritarian president Donald Trump , first serving as the head of the CIA and then as Secretary of State . And if Pompeo ’s former chief was any role model , you have to believe Pompeo did something fishy with that bottle of whisky . Remember when Trump took $ 750,000 Charles Frederick Worth of art from the U.S. ambassador ’s residence in Paris because heliked it so much ? Someone should in all probability make certain all the prowess he swiped is still in the White House .
Have you seen Pompeo ’s bottle ? perhaps it ’s with Trump’stax returns . I ’m sure we ’ll get to see the most update adaptation of those any daylight now .
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