The old forms of graft and corruption live on in this new era:
Trump more involved in stopping FBI HQ move than previously known, emails show
They have also raised questions about why the GSA chief was not more forthcoming with Congress about the White House's role. In April, Murphy did not disclose she'd met with the President about the project when asked by Rep. Mike Quigley, an Illinois Democrat, during a congressional hearing if the President or anyone at the White House was involved in the discussions about the future of the FBI building.
The
General Services Administration's inspector general later said Murphy's testimony had been "incomplete."
"We found that Administrator Murphy's testimony before the House Appropriations Committee, Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee on April 17, 2018, was incomplete and may have left the misleading impression that she had no discussions with the President or senior White House officials in the decision-making process about the project," the
IG said in a report in August.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/18/politics/trump-fbi-building/index.html