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Senator Sheldon WhitehouseDr.i., has emerged in the center of attention in the middle of a new complaint of ethics due to its vote in favor of the laws that finally financed millions in subsidies to a non -profit climate group that pays the consulting firm of his wife.
But who is his wife, Sandra Whitehouse?
Whitehouse obtained his degree at Yale University, similar to her husband now senator, according to her LinkedIn page.
Senator’s wife Sheldon Whitehouse, Sandra Whitehouse, has worked for a long time and has been compensated by a non -profit organization that obtained millions in federal funds of the legislation he supported. (Reuters)
After that, he obtained his mastery at the Oceanography Graduate School at Rhode Island University, studying there from 1986 to 1994.
She and Sheldon Whitehouse married in 1986 in the chapel of the San Jorge School in Newport, Rhode Island, according to a newspaper ad.
The couple lives in Newport and has two children, Molly and Alexander, as well as two grandchildren, according to the senator’s website.
Throughout his career, Whouse has advised non -profit organizations, non -governmental organizations, a state agency, a legislative body and private companies, according to a biography of the biography of the biography of the Atlantic Councilwhere he was a non -resident member at the Scowcroft Strategy and Security Center.
The couple lives in Newport. (Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe through Getty Images)
Her husband was first chosen for the United States Senate in 2006. First she began working for the group at the center of the last complaint of ethics approximately two years later, in 2008.
Whitehouse began working for Ocean Conservancy in September 2008, according to his LinkedIn page. She served as a senior policy advisor, and her “consulting work includes providing strategic advice for the executive team and programs directors, raising awareness about oceanic policy problems in several workshops and conferences, and involving key stakeholders in the mission of Ocean Conservancy. The areas of policy focus include climate change, oceanic plastics and ocean planning.”
Whitehouse is no longer used directly by Ocean Conservancy, but the organization pays its firm, Ocean Wnks LLC, for a similar consultancy.
She became president of Ocean Wnks LLC in 2017, and in this capacity, “consultation for several non -profit organizations, taking advantage of decades of scientific, regulatory and political experience to educate and advocate for issues of ocean policies,” according to his LinkedIn.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is being accused of a possible conflict of interests by an ethical control body. (Getty images)
Ocean Conservancy has remarkably received more than $ 14.2 million in federal subsidies since 2008, according to UseSpending.gov. He was granted two considerable subsidies in only 2024, one for $ 5.2 million of the Oceanic and Atmospheric National Administration (NOAA) and another for $ 1.7 million of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), both for the cleaning of marine debris. The first was funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), and the second was funded through the EPA Annual Assignments Law. The senator voted for both.
According to fiscal documents, Ocean Conservancy has paid Whitehouse a total of $ 2,686,800 directly or during your company since 2010.
This was summoned in the complaint last month before the president of the select committee of the Senate of Ethics, James Lankford, Republican of Okla., And vice president Chris Coans, D-Del., Of Ethics Watchdog the Foundation for Responsibility and Civic Trust (hect).
Whitehouse has become known as a climatic hawk. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. through Getty Images)
In a statement to Fox News Digital, the Whitehouse spokesman Stephen Deleo said: “This is a repeated performance of dark money, and the previous attempt of a dark money group to plant these same smears was lavished flatly by the ethics of the Senate. The billionaires and the operational of the Supreme Court of the Court would attach the facts that would have tried to stop the senator Whitehouse of the light of the light on what they have done to the regular people of a fair of a fair before the court before the court. ” “” “. “” “” “.
“But the false accusations of special interest of the extreme right and billionaires will not prevent the search for the senator of a responsible ethical government that responds to the needs of Americans,” he added.
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The Whitehouse office also provided a letter to Fox News Digital of the Committee last year informing another surveillance group, Watch Judicial, that the Senator’s actions did not violate “federal laws, Senate rules or other behavior standards.”
The group had filed a complaint of ethics similar to the fact.
