Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is expressing her concerns about apparent conflicts of interest posed by Elon Musk serving as a top adviser in the new administration and asking for President-elect Trump to explain what ethics standards will apply to the billionaire businessman.

She wants to know whether Musk has complied with the Trump transition team’s ethics standards and whether he’s signed its code of conduct.

“Putting Mr. Musk in a position to influence billions of dollars of government contracts and regulatory enforcement without a stringent conflict of interest agreement in place is an invitation for corruption on a scale not seen in our lifetimes,” Warren wrote in a letter to Trump on Monday.

Warren noted that Musk “has billed himself as an extraordinarily influential figure” in Trump’s orbit, joined one of the president-elect's calls to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and met secretly with Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations.

She also pointed out that Musk has been named co-chair of Trump’s newly created Department of........

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