In his earliest days as the first compliance officer for the White House under the current Trump administration, Stefan Passantino got some brutal lessons on setting up a brand new compliance operation—and quickly.
When Donald Trump took the oath of office in 2017, all documents related to the outgoing administration were transferred to archives and retained to comply with the Presidential Records Act. Passantino couldn’t help but notice, as part of the walkthrough for the 30-member “landing team” taking the keys to the White House, that moving crews were packing up the last of the contents of the West Wing.
