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Bret Worley’s reported deletions follow a federal hemp-ban reprieve and Calley Means’s accusation that Wiles tilted policy toward her family.
Susie Wiles’s son-in-law, hemp executive Bret Worley, deleted his LinkedIn account and posts boasting about his influence over a federal hemp-industry carve-out, the Daily Caller reported, citing a source familiar with the posts.
The reported cleanup followed Wiles’s departure from the White House.
Worley runs MC Nutraceuticals. The outlet reported that the company also deleted LinkedIn posts. It said it could not retrieve the deleted material.
The policy change bought the industry more time. A September spending bill signed by President Trump pushed the federal hemp-THC ban’s effective date from Nov. 12 to Dec. 11, The Associated Press reported.
MC Nutraceuticals had already advertised political access. An August email told prospective buyers the industry had “a seat at the table” and would pursue permanent carve-outs, according to the Daily Caller’s account of earlier New York Times reporting.
Former HHS adviser Calley Means directly accused Wiles of favoring her family’s interests. “It is known by everyone and widely discussed among senior administration staff that Susie put her finger on the hemp policy scale because of her family,” Means said to Politico.
The White House denied that Wiles lobbied Capitol Hill for the carve-out and rejected allegations that outside groups dictated administration policy.
