HHS Secretary Tom Price Resigns After $1 Million Private Jet Scandal
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price resigned after revelations he spent over $1 million in taxpayer funds on private jets and military aircraft for travel that included personal business. Price took at least 26 private charter flights costing over $400,000, often to places where he had personal business or could have flown commercially for a fraction of the cost. His resignation marked the first Cabinet-level departure due to corruption scandal in the Trump administration, setting a pattern of ethical violations that would plague multiple Cabinet members.
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- Tom Price resigns as HHS secretary after criticism for taking charter flights at taxpayer expense (2017-09-29)
- Tom Price Resigns as Health Secretary After Drawing Ire for Chartered Flights (2017-09-29)
- Price's travel cost over $1 million (2017-09-28)
- Tom Price resigns as HHS secretary after private jet scandal (2017-09-29)
- Tom Price's stock trades under scrutiny (2017-01-16)
- Price's private travel cost more than $1 million (2017-10-05)
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