WASHINGTON, April 23 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth issued the following press release:
U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation (CST) Subcommittee on Aviation and Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Ranking Member of CST and Edward J. Markey (D-MA) today requested that the Inspector General of the Department of Transportation (DOT) investigate whether Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator and former Republic Airways CEO Bryan Bedford deliberately violated his ethics agreement to boost his stock payout, and misled Congress and the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) about his actions.
Bedford violated his ethics agreement by refusing to fully divest his significant equity stake in Rep...