Recent reports found that the Trump cabinet member, Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, created a "special path" for projects favored by Senate Majority Leader and husband Mitch McConnell for his home state of Kentucky; she retained shares in a construction-materials company for more than a year after promising to relinquish them; and she has "extraordinary proximity to power in China" given her family's American shipping company is largely based in China.

"I am not aware of any situation like this," Virginia Canter, chief ethics counsel at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, told Yahoo Finance.

"Corruption is the use of public office for private gain, and corrupt activity takes place because it tends to promote, or make policies or decisions that benefit the private interests of ... their family members, if not themselves directly.... this broadly fits in with ... the broad definition of what corruption is."

You're not allowed to use public office for private gain

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