{"id":55778,"date":"2023-06-05T19:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/05\/bikini-atoll-nuclear-fund-interior-department"},"modified":"2023-06-05T19:00:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T10:00:36","slug":"trump-era-officials-under-fire-as-nuclear-fund-for-bikini-islanders-is-squandered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55778","title":{"rendered":"Trump-era officials under fire as nuclear fund for Bikini islanders is squandered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former staff have criticized the interior department for ignoring the risk of fraud after the Trump administration ceased scrutiny of a $59m fund for nuclear survivors, which is now depleted<\/p>\n<p>Former staff have lashed the US Department of the Interior for failing to predict that a 2017 decision to lift oversight from a $59m trust fund for Pacific Islanders displaced by American nuclear testing would lead to the fund\u2019s exhaustion through mismanagement and alleged fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Bussanich, who in 2017 was a senior official in the department\u2019s Office of Insular Affairs, said that he \u201cwould have bet money that there would have been issues with the trust fund and that the money would have been wasted\u201d. Allen Stayman, a former director of the Office of Insular Affairs, dismissed the office as \u201cthe agency of acquiescence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/05\/bikini-atoll-nuclear-fund-interior-department\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former staff have criticized the interior department for ignoring the risk of fraud after the Trump administration ceased scrutiny of a $59m fund for nuclear survivors, which is now depletedFormer staff have lashed the US Department of the Interior for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,602,554,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-marshall-islands","category-trump-administration","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55779,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55778\/revisions\/55779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}