Although a nondisclosure agreement regarding the contract was signed, it was edited by Sherman so that the three men could converse with each other, the president or other administration officials about it, according to ProPublica. In addition, according to emails reported by ProPublica, Moskowitz tried to convince the VA and Apple to use an app for the overhaul he had designed. The health records overhaul included Perlmutter, Moskowitz and Sherman examining a confidential draft of a $10 billion government contract. Warren has requested information from three Mar-a-Lago members and Trump associates about whether they personally profited from insider roles at Veterans Affairs. Senator Elizabeth Warren listens to testimony from Betsy DeVos during her confirmation hearing for secretary of education, on Capitol Hill, on January 17, 2017.
"As a result, I am concerned that you may have had the opportunity to profit from your arrangement," she continued, "including possibly by engaging in trades or other actions to enrich yourselves or other third parties using nonpublic information that you obtained from VA officials." "Although you reportedly had access to and influence over key agency decisions and decision-makers, you were reportedly not subject to any of the conflicts-of-interest and other ethics rules that apply to government employees," Warren wrote in her letter to the three men, which can be read in full at the bottom of this story. The Government Accountability Office said last year it would not have the resources to begin investigating until around April.
She previously demanded answers from government watchdog agencies about the matter, including one that specifically investigates the VA. Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts who has formed a 2020 presidential exploratory committee, has dubbed the men Trump's "Mar-a-Lago cronies." On Wednesday, she sent a letter to each of them requesting information regarding their influence within the agency.
The three men-Marvel Entertainment Chairman Ike Perlmutter, physician Bruce Moskowitz and lawyer Marc Sherman-have no official government roles as private citizens, yet documents obtained by ProPublica last year revealed the Trump associates had extensive influence when it came to offering opinions on job candidates, managing parts of the budget, providing input on various policies and heading a "multibillion-dollar effort to overhaul electronic health records for millions of veterans." Senator Elizabeth Warren wants to know whether three Mar-a-Lago members and Trump associates who reportedly had wide-ranging control over the Department of Veterans Affairs illegally profited from insider roles at the agency, according to a document obtained by Newsweek.
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