New rules allow Interior to treat lawmakers, officials to free concert tickets

The Department of the Interior will be able to treat members of Congress and the executive branch to free concert tickets under new rules released Tuesday.

The rules spell out how the Interior secretary and other employees can use tickets that come through a department contract with the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, located outside of Washington, D.C.

The venue has provided free tickets to the department since the 1970s, something the department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) has advised against for almost as long.

An agreement between Interior and the nonprofit that runs Wolf Trap early this month once again guaranteed eight tickets per show to the secretary, reaching an estimated value of $43,000 in entertainment per year.

The contract renewed calls from the OIG to come up with a process for managing how the tickets are distributed. Earlier this month, the department said they’d spoken with ethics officials about how to handle the tickets, but did not provide details about what that process would be.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/444838-interior-can-treat-congress-government-officials-to-free-concerts

Falsely imprisoned man to receive $1.5 million after 45 years behind bars

A man who was wrongfully imprisoned will receive $1.5 million from the state of Michigan after spending nearly 50 years behind bars, according to the state attorney general’s office.

Richard Phillips spent 45 years in prison after being falsely convicted for murder in 1972 and sentenced to serve a life sentence. The Michigan attorney general's office wrote that Phillips's conviction "was based almost entirely on the false testimony of the main witness in the case."

The homicide charges against Phillips were dismissed in March 2018 after a review by Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy’s Conviction Integrity Unit. Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) launched the investigation in April to review claims of wrongful conviction.

Phillips, the longest-serving prisoner to be exonerated in the nation, has been supporting himself by selling his artwork since his release.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/444717-falsely-imprisoned-man-awarded-15-million

#BREAKING: Nadler subpoenas Hope Hicks and McGahn's former aide for testimony

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