Trumps Commerce Secretary Left More Than $2 Billion Off Of His Financial Disclosure Report

[turbinetree]

Source: uproxx

Before Wilbur Ross was confirmed by the U.S. Senate with a vote of 72 to 27, the newly appointed commerce secretary told his committee inquirers, “I intend to be quite scrupulous about recusal and any topic where there is the slightest scintilla of doubt.” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) briefly protested the confirmation, telling his colleagues White House’s refusal to release some of Ross’ written answers to the Senate’s questionnaire was troubling. Even so, the matter was altogether forgotten in the ensuing rush of administrative scandals… until Forbes dug a little deeper into the secretary’s hidden finances.

As it turns out, Ross “[left] more than $2 billion off of his financial disclosure report — and therefore out of the public eye” when he answered the Senate’s questionnaire and filed his paperwork in early 2017. And to make matters worse, the commerce secretary only revealed the existence of the missing assets to Forbes when the magazine asked him why the previously reported numbers didn’t match up with what “he had previously told the magazine he owned”:

Read more: http://uproxx.com/news/wilbur-ross-left-2-billion-off-financial-disclosure-report/

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And to what Forbes reported on this issue:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/10/16/the-mystery-of-wilbur-ross-missing-billions/#2d1e82bd1c90


This should mean that this individual should be brought back before the committee and explain himself, in my opinion all of his money goes back through the Bank of Cyprus....................

[democratisphere]

1. Wilbur Ross is a guy not to be trusted.

He represents everything that is corrupt and wrong with wall street. Wilbur Ross needs to change his title to "Underground Secretary of Commerce" Anyway, what's a couple billion among friends.

[Bayard]

2. A measly $2B?

Not worth mentioning.

[PatSeg]

3. Oh, what's a couple billion

here or there? I'm sure it was just an oversight on his part.

[Angry Dragon]

4. when you don't know how much you have..........you have too much

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. How rich, and how crooked, do you have to be to leave $2B off

a financial disclosure form? "I forgot"?

[gopiscrap]

6. lock him up

[dalton99a]

7. Corruption and malfeasance in every Cabinet department

which is just the way Putin likes it.

[Bengus81]

8. Leave that 2B off his tax forms too?

[OnDoutside]

9. You could have a point about Cyprus. We knew he was a billionaire,

So why else would he hide these assets ?

[PoliticAverse]

10. A billion here, a billion there and pretty soon you're talking about a lot of money... n/t

[DK504]

11. If there is one person appointed by the Moron the entire

Democratic party i the Senate MUST vote no against everything. One person, one law, one idea, all must go down in flames. And they need to be out in front of it every single time.

The Congress is only in session half the time, so they should be home telling their constituents EVERY thing the Traitor is trying to do and WHY they are fighting him and McConnell. The time to play nice nice was over Jan. 21st. He must be voted down every single time and never again may the "leadership" go and meet with him.

[Mr.Bill]

12. And here's a list of how they voted:

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=115&session=1&vote=00073

[dem in texas]

13. Major holder in Cyprus Bank

Wondered when the newshounds would start sniffing around on old Wilbur. Cyprus banks were the go-to place for money laundering, especially for the Russians.

[FakeNoose]

15. That explains his appointment

You know he did favors for Trump, Manafort and everybody else!
Where there's smoke, there's fire.

Just sayin'

[bitterross]

14. Since they knew they were going to work for 45 it's not like they feared accountability

It seems no one 45 picked filled out their forms with any care about accountability. So far, they've had support for their lack of concern confirmed. No one who has lied to the Senate to get confirmed has suffered any consequences and they likely won't.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

16. No surprise

Sleazebags of a feather.