Summarize and humanize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in EnglishPresident Trump’s pick to be the top Labor Department watchdog has first-hand experience with inside inquiries – having himself been the subject of an internal police probe and getting raked for putting his paramour on the congressional payroll.Trump included former Rep. Anthony D’Esposito among a long list of other nominees Monday evening, after clearing out most inspectors general as one of his first acts after retaking the White House.D’Esposito is a former NYPD officer who served a single term as a Republican congressman from New York.During his tenure he was the subject of a bombshell report that he put his fiancee’s daughter on the payroll for $3,800 a month.He also gave a $2,000-per-month to Devin Faas, a woman with whom he was allegedly having an affair, according to a New York Times report last year.The account prompted an outside report to the House Office of Congressional Ethics by an outside Democratic-backed watchdog group, although whether anything ever came of it remains shrouded.A spokesman for the House Ethics panel offered a simple ‘no comment’ when asked if the panel had opened up a formal investigation or what was the final status. Such formal probes, once begun, typically end when a lawmaker loses their seat.’If the Administration wants to cut waste, fraud, and abuse at the Department of Labor, it’s shocking they would nominate someone who has abused every single position of power he’s ever held to oversee that process,’ fumed Rep. Laura Gillen, who defeated D’Esposito in 2022 and now holds the Long Island seat in Congress, in a statement to DailyMail.com.D’Esposito blasted the report last year without explicitly denying it. President Donald Trump has nominated former Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-NY) to be Inspector General of the Department of LaborHe called it ‘tabloid garbage’ a ‘slimy, partisan “hit piece” designed to distract Long Islanders from Democrats’ failing record on border security, the economy, and foreign policy,’ in comments to the New York Post last September.’My personal life has never interfered with my ability to deliver results for New York’s 4th district, and I have upheld the highest ethical standards of personal conduct,’ he said.The House Ethics code states that ‘a member, delegate or resident commissioner may not retain the relative of such individual in a paid position, and an employee of the House may not accept compensation for work for a committee on which the relative of such employees serves as a member.’The bipartisan Ethics panel usually tries to steer clear of opening a probe right before an election, and the report on D’Esposito came September 23, 2024 – weeks before he lost his seat. The Times reported that it confirmed the affair with three sources and corroborated the account with Faasi’s ex husband Derek W. Ciaschi. It quoted from texts it called love notes.’Love you till Monday,’ Faas wrote him with a a heart emoji. ‘So much,” D’Esposito responded. ‘SO SO.’The White House defended D’Esposito’s background when asked about his former opponent’s accusations and asked for the final status of any House inquiry. ‘As a former legislator and law enforcement officer, Anthony D’Esposito is exceptionally qualified to serve as Inspector General for the Department of Labor,’ White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly told DailyMail.com.D’Esposito, a former NYPD detective, also went through a complaint by the force’s Internal Affairs division over a ‘side-gig’ as a bartender.El Diario New York reported last summer during his reelection campaign that a lawsuit alleging that he lied to a grand jury and then-Manhattan DA Cy Vance Jr.’s office in 2011, resulting in a $250,000 settlement.Another complaint said he confiscated a defendant’s white gold chain during an arrest and that it wasn’t returned, the New York Daily News reported last year. President Donald Trump fired 17 Inspectors General on January 24. Now he has put forward former Rep. Anthony Esposito to be IG of the Labor Department, prompting howls from his successor in Congress ‘If the Administration wants to cut waste, fraud, and abuse at the Department of Labor, it’s shocking they would nominate someone who has abused every single position of power he’s ever held to oversee that process,’ fumed Laura Rep. Gillen’During his time in the NYPD, on the Hempstead Town Council, and now in Congress, Anthony D’Esposito has shown a pattern of corruption, dishonesty and incompetence and exposed his extremism along the way,’ Gillen said during their nasty reelection fight, a replay of the race two years earlier. The probe into the gold chain got an internal affairs tracking number and was ‘partially substantiated,’ according to the Daily News, which wasn’t able to determine any formal consequence. Police records show he ended up getting docked 15 vacation days for working as a disc jockey without ‘permission.’ Any personal baggage aside, D’Esposito’s partisan background is a departure for the typically nonpartisan IG offices, whose mission is to probe potential fraud inside government.IGs hold extensive powers, including the ability to subpoena documents and information, as part of their role of tracking how billions of taxpayer dollars get spent. They also have access to mountains of data, at a time when DOGE is fighting with federal agency officials over access to digital information on Americans. D’Esposito’s campaign website was still active this week, and had him slamming former VP Kamala Harris and attacking ‘Democrats’ lies about the condition of our country.’His nomination came after Trump nominated Thomas March Bell to be the IG of the Health and Human Services Department.Bell is general counsel for House Republicans. When he worked for the Virginia state Department of Environmental Quality, he was fined in a 1997 audit that found he improperly authorized a large $8,000 payment to the agency’s former flak for comp time. Mark Greenblatt, one of the IGs that Trump fired at the start of his term, called D’Esposito a ‘heavy partisan’ whose background was ‘completely anathema to the inspector general community.’Greenblatt, who was nominated and confirmed by the Senate during Trump’s first term, also called the HHS IG nomination ‘very problematic,’ saying ‘both of them have substantiated ethics issues and are not competent in other ways.’IG nominations aren’t usually contested, and can be confirmed by a simple majority vote in the Senate, where Republicans hold a 53-47 majority. D’Esposito had lobbied to be administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency, Newsday reported.
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