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Trump aide, SJU alum quits over resume lies 1
Taylor Weyeneth and President Trump in the Oval Office.
Posted: Thursday, February 1, 2018 10:30 am
Trump aide, SJU alum quits over resume lies by Christopher Barca, Editor Queens Chronicle | 0 comments
Taylor Weyeneth, a 24-year-old St. John’s University alum, resigned Wednesday from President Trump’s administration after the Washington Post reported the resume of the Office of National Drug Control Policy’s deputy chief of staff was full of falsehoods.
According to the newspaper, the class of 2016 graduate said on his resume that he worked for Manhattan law firm O’Dwyer and Bernstien from late 2014 until April 2016, shortly before taking a paid position on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
But Brian O’Dwyer, the firm’s partner, told the Post that Weyeneth was actually fired in August 2015 for repeatedly not showing up to work.
Weyeneth resubmitted his resume to the administration last year, while also amending the number of hours he volunteered at a Queens monastary during his time at St. John’s from 275 to 150.
But when he sent in yet another revised resume shortly after, he had removed the section about volunteering entirely.
Fordham University officials said Weyeneth did not have a master’s degree from that school as he claimed. A Kappa Sigma fraternity spokesman also said the Trump aide was only vice president of SJU’s branch for 18 months, not three years as listed on his resume.
Last month, 10 Democratic senators wrote to Trump to express their “extreme concern” over the 24-year-old’s meteoric rise from low-level staffer to deputy chief of staff.
The Office of National Drug Control Policy has been tasked with battling the country’s opioid addiction epidemic.
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