With Trump Appointees, a Raft of Potential Conflicts and ‘No Transparency’

WASHINGTON — President Trump is populating the White House and federal agencies with former lobbyists, lawyers and consultants who in many cases are helping to craft new policies for the same industries in which they recently earned a paycheck...

...He said that Mr. Trump’s own ethics executive order in late January eliminated a requirement, first adopted by President Barack Obama, that executive branch appointees not accept jobs in agencies they recently lobbied. That weakened standards applying to approximately 4,000 executive branch hires....
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/15/us/politics/trump-appointees-potential-conflicts.html