Article snippet: Treasury Secretary solar eclipse. “In response to inquiries received from members of the public, we are reviewing the circumstances of the Secretary's August 21 flight to Louisville and Ft. Knox, to determine whether all applicable travel, ethics, and appropriation laws and policies were observed,” Rich Delmar, counsel to the inspector general, said in a statement. The Office of Inspector General will advise appropriate officials after the review is complete, he said. The review comes after an ethics watchdog group last week undertook its own investigation into whether the eclipse was the primary motivation for the treasury secretary’s trip. In a Freedom of Information Act request to the Treasury Department, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, asked for all documents that “would shed light on the justification for Secretary Mnuchin’s use of a government plane, rather than a commercial flight, for a trip that seems to have been planned around the solar eclipse and to enable the Secretary to secure a viewpoint in the path of the eclipses’ totality.” The Treasury Department has firmly denied that the eclipse played any role in the planning of the trip, which a spokesman said was originally planned for earlier last month but was rescheduled to accommodate the congressional calendar. “The eclipse did not even factor in the travel decision,” the spokesman told ABC News in a statement last week. “The facts remain that the Secreta... Link to the full article to read more