Ron Wyden, a Senate Democrat from Oregon, is calling for the federal Office of Government Ethics to investigate Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin after he appeared to promote a movie that he helped finance at a political gathering last Friday. “I’m not allowed to promote anything I’m involved in,” he said at an event hosted by…
The top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee asked the government ethics watchdog on Monday to review comments by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin plugging “The Lego Batman Movie,” a film one of his companies produced, for a possible ethics violation. In a letter to Office of Government Ethics Director Walter Shaub, Senator Ron Wyden said…
A rift has opened up in the Treasury Department between those who back the Republican Party’s traditional1 Wall Street-friendly policies and those aligned with White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s economic nationalist agenda, according to insider administration sources. “I think Gary and Steve (Mnuchin) view most of these things the same way and are pretty…
The Trump administration can’t seem to kick the habit of marketing its own products. First, it was senior adviser Kellyanne Conway plugging Ivanka Trump’s clothing line in a live TV interview from the White House. Now it’s Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs banker who became a movie underwriter and was executive producer…
Steve Mnuchin is headed to the Treasury with or without approval of Senate Democrats. On Wednesday, the Senate Finance Committee gave the Jewish financier the green light toward his confirmation as Treasury Secretary in Donald Trump’s cabinet. The approval was given to Mnuchin outside the committee’s regular procedure after Senate Democrats boycotted the meeting for…
Steve Mnuchin, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Treasury Department, drew fierce rebukes from Senate Democrats after it was revealed that he failed to disclose more than $100 million in assets before his Thursday confirmation hearing. “I think as you all can appreciate, filling out these government forms is quite complicated,” Mnuchin, a Goldman…
As Steve Mnuchin prepares for his Thursday confirmation hearings to become secretary of the Treasury, the Goldman Sachs alum has a powerful new detractor: a widow in Oregon who blames him for the foreclosure on her home. “We did everything the bank asked. They lied to us and took our home anyway,” said Linda Fraser,…
Steve Mnuchin, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Treasury Department, might be headed for some trouble at his Thursday confirmation hearing. According to gossip from the transition team, Mnuchin came off as “uneven and stiff” in prep sessions, leading handlers to bring in extra help ahead of the Senate appearance. Those unnamed sources, speaking…
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