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Dale Christopher

Dale Christopher

Deputy Director for Compliance, U.S. Office of Government Ethics

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Christopher wrote that OGE had reminded Treasury that it is Bessent’s “personal responsibility” to avoid actions creating real or apparent conflicts regarding his holdings. ([bankingdive.com](https://www.bankingdive.com/news/bessent-ethics-farmland-divest-assets-investments-china-north-dakota-treasury-crapo-wyden-oge/757703/))

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Scott Bessent’s farmland divestiture: ethics clash inside Trump’s Treasury

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Monitoring Bessent’s adherence to his ethics agreement; warned Senate that he was not in timely compliance

Scott Bessent became Treasury Secretary in January 2025. An ethics agreement required him to sell substantial holdings, including up to $25 million in North Dakota soybean and corn farmland that earned as much as $1 million a year in rent. After months of delays, the Office of Government Ethics warned him in August 2025 that he'd failed to comply on time.

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