Ethics group urged probe on Nikki Haley travel a day before her resignation

An anti-corruption group had urged an investigation into Nikki Haley’s acceptance of private airplanes and free basketball tickets a day before she resigned today as US ambassador to the United Nations.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington had urged the State Department’s inspector general to probe seven flights that Haley and her husband took last year on the luxury aircraft of businessmen from South Carolina, where she was formerly governor.

Haley, on a filing required of government employees, disclosed the flights from New York to South Carolina and Washington and estimated the highest value at $1,066, based on the cost of commercial first-class tickets.

But the pressure group says the value was more likely in the tens of thousands of dollars.

— AFP