From The Huffington Post: Group Asks Congress To Investigate If Betsy DeVos Is Tied To Her Brother’s Work

Thanks to David Nickell, AFT Local 1360, for sending us this.

The education secretary’s brother, Erik Prince, reportedly recruited an ex-spy to infiltrate a Michigan teachers union.

By REBECCA KLEIN

A progressive government watchdog nonprofit group is asking Congress to investigate whether Education Secretary Betsy DeVos had any involvement in her brother’s efforts to spy on a Michigan teachers union, HuffPost has learned.

Over the weekend, The New York Times reported that in 2017, DeVos’s brother, Erik Prince, recruited an ex-spy to infiltrate a Michigan office of the American Federation of Teachers. He did this work through Project Veritas, a right-wing group that is known to infiltrate media organizations and liberal groups in an attempt to collect potentially damaging information. A spokesperson for DeVos told Politico that “Secretary DeVos has absolutely nothing to do with this.”

But on Tuesday, the group Accountable.US wrote to top officials on the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform asking them to take a closer look. 

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