Steve Mnuchin, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Treasury Secretary, has announced that he will sell off some investments and quit a number of corporate board, if the Senate approves his nomination. According to a letter mailed to senators, Mnuchin has pledged to liquidate his interests in companies including Berkshire Hathaway, Citigroup, Microsoft and Verizon within…
Steve Mnuchin’s financial skeletons could come back to haunt him as he tries to win confirmation as President-elect Donald Trump’s Secretary of the Treasury. A leaked memo from the California Attorney General’s office that alleges his bank routinely violated the state’s laws in foreclosing on homes. A bank executive admitted “robo-signing” foreclosures every 30 seconds,…
As Washington, D.C. gears up to vote on President-elect Donald Trump’s nominations for Cabinet posts, the liberal group Allied Progress has launched a new ad campaign pressuring two Senate Republicans up for re-election in 2018, Jeff Flake of Arizona and Dean Heller of Nevada, to vote against Treasury pick Steve Mnuchin. “Former Goldman Sachs banker…
Steven Mnuchin, a longtime Trump acquaintance, Goldman Sachs executive, and Hollywood producer with no political experience, is expected to be tapped as Treasury Secretary by Donald Trump as early as Nov 30. But the pronunciation of his name has been befuddling many in the media: so here are a bunch of news anchors who don’t…
An Australian billionaire could be the unlikely missing link connecting Israel’s prime minister, Donald Trump’s new pick for Treasury Secretary, and pop superstar Mariah Carey. James Packer, the Sydney-based media mogul, now embroiled in an alleged scandal case involving Prime Minister Netanyahu and his son Yair, was also a business partner of Steven Mnuchin, who…
Like the post-credits bonus scene in a Marvel superhero movie, Donald Trump’s final pre-election ad added three surprising villains to his usual rogues’ gallery (Hillary and Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, assorted foreigners): Lloyd Blankfein, George Soros and Janet Yellen. All three deal with money: Blankfein as CEO of the Goldman Sachs investment back, Soros as…
President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name former Goldman Sachs partner and Hollywood financier Steven Mnuchin as his nominee for Treasury secretary, a source said on Tuesday, putting a Wall Street veteran in the top U.S. economic Cabinet post for the first time in eight years. Mnuchin, who was Trump’s presidential campaign finance chairman, could…
Three weeks after his victory, President-elect Donald Trump has named many of his top advisers, drawing heavily from the small group of aides and admirers who surrounded him during his campaign. Steve Mnuchin, his pick to lead the Treasury Department, fits that bill, having served as the candidate’s finance chair and long entertained personal and…
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