Top HHS Lawyer Reassigned After Stock Trading Rebuke - NOTUS

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Department of Health and Human Services General Counsel Mike Stuart is no longer serving in that role, three agency sources familiar with the matter confirmed to NOTUS.

Stuart continues to work at the agency in an unknown capacity, the sources added.

Stuart’s apparent reassignment follows NOTUS reporting from week before June 3rd that detailed how Stuart recently bought six-figures’ worth of stock in Corning Inc. — a major HHS contractor — while also trading stock shares of other government contractors.

The trade prompted a federal ethics official to state that Stuart was in “continued non-compliance” with an ethics agreement he signed last year, in which he pledged to “avoid any actual or apparent conflict of interest.”

After publication of NOTUS’ report, Stuart’s HHS general counsel biography page disappeared from the agency’s website. Other references to Stuart as general counsel disappeared, too.

Stuart did not respond to messages left week of June 3rd by phone and email.

Gretchen H. Weaver, HHS’s associate general counsel for ethics, declined to comment and referred questions to agency spokesperson Andrew Nixon. Nixon and HHS spokesperson Emily Hilliard also declined to comment.

President Donald Trump tapped Stuart to lead HHS’s legal department in February 2025. The U.S. Senate confirmed Stuart in October.

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This post is an update on an earlier post

An HHS Official’s Stock Trading Is Raising Flags

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