THREAD: Wilbur Ross is in the news, so here's your regular reminder that he's lowkey one of the most problematic and potentially criminally corrupt officials in Trump's cabinet.
For one, 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 citizensforethics.org/press-release/…
And that's not all. Ross also apparently participated in a series of meetings with major companies that he and his wife held significant financial interests in, despite (again) having promised to divest the holdings
citizensforethics.org/press-release/…
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"
Also last year, a federal judge ruled that Ross broke several laws and violated the constitutional underpinning of representative democracy in pushing to add questions aimed at undercounting certain minority groups in the census.
Kind of a big deal.
washingtonpost.com/world/national…
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 forbes.com/sites/danalexa…
And we just got his most recent financial disclosure
In any other administration, Ross's continued employment would be a national scandal, but in the Trump era, he's one of the longest-serving cabinet secretaries in the administration.
Drain the Swamp? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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