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Posted: 2019-07-12T21:11:04Z | Updated: 2019-07-12T21:11:04Z

President Donald Trump has lost more of his Cabinet secretaries to corruption and other ethics concerns in his first term than any other president in U.S. history. The departure of Labor Secretary Alex Acosta over the past sweetheart deal he gave pedophile hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein is just the latest incident.

With Acostas announced exit, the total number of ethics-related Cabinet-level departures in the Trump administration has reached five. This is an ignominious record for a president who claimed he would drain the swamp in Washington and eliminate corruption. The president has instead run one of the most corrupt administrations in American history with lax oversight , nepotism , self-dealing and the appointment of dozens of lobbyists to oversee the industries they previously worked for.

Other presidents have seen high profile departures from their Cabinets related to ethics concerns. Notably, President Ronald Reagans first director of the Environmental Protection Agency, Anne Gorsuch (mother to Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch), left her position after being found in contempt of Congress for refusing to hand over records about the misuse of Superfund money. James Watt, Reagans interior secretary, was pushed out after mocking diversity in a speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. (He was later found guilty of lying in an investigation into his influence-peddling as a lobbyist.)

The five Cabinet secretaries who have left or are leaving the Trump administration under clouds of alleged corruption are former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, former Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Acosta.