Wilbur Ross is in the news, and since he's lowkey one of the most problematic and potentially criminally corrupt officials in Trump's cabinet, let's take a journey down memory lane, shall we?
I say Wilbur Ross possibly engaged in criminal ethics violations because in 2018 when he found out that NYT was writing a story about his dealings with a firm that has ties to Putin, he shorted the stock, then sold assets he should have already divested https://www.citizensforethics.org/press-release/wilbur-ross/
Last year, we learned that the Office of Government Ethics declined to certify his financial disclosure after concluding that Ross wasn't "in compliance with applicable laws and regulations" https://twitter.com/CREWcrew/status/1097971156836143105
In any other administration, Ross's continued employment would be a national scandal, but in the Trump era, he's put in control of our economic recovery! 🙃
There's also the fact that Wilbur Ross might have stolen $120 million from people he worked with, which really says something about the kind of people Trump hires https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2018/08/06/new-details-about-wilbur-rosss-businesses-point-to-pattern-of-grifting/#39dd7cca1c33
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