This WaPo piece today
is more notable for the context in which the violations come than the violations themselves, and recalls GAO’s previous caution:
The inquiry reported immediately above was into something completely different, “contact between the agency’s top air official and Harvard University, his former employer.”
GAO noted, on numerous occasions, Mr. Goffman’s approach to applicable legal limitations.
These red flags were summarized here.
Again: Mr. Goffman has been scrutinized for, and now found in violation for, lapses that represent relative chicken-feed given his larger body of work.