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In recent weeks, ProPublica reported that at least two DOGE aides assigned to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
helped coordinate mass layoffs at the agency while maintaining financial arrangements that experts have said either are or appear to be conflicts of interests.

In the case of Gavin Kliger, ProPublica reported that ethics attorneys at the bureau warned the 25-year-old software engineer that he could not hold onto his stocks and also participate in major agency actions.

Days later, he nevertheless helped oversee the layoffs of nearly 90% of the CFPB’s staff
— an action that one expert called a “pretty clear-cut violation” of the federal criminal conflict-of-interest statute.

https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-aides-conflict-of-interest-senators-letter