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Trump Administration Conflicts Of Interest: How Gary Cohn Could Sell U.S. Infrastructure To Goldman Sachs
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of International Business Times


International Business Times, May 26, 2017
Posted: May 29th, 2017
http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/trump-administratio...

President Donald Trump's administration this week touted an infrastructure plan that would sell off public assets to private financial firms. Leading the White House privatization initiative is Gary Cohn, the former president of Goldman Sachs, who received a $285 million dollar payout upon ... taking a job as the director of Trumps National Economic Council. As Cohn has led the infrastructure privatization initiative from that perch, Goldman Sachs declared that it continues to look at new business initiatives that revolve around taking ownership of public assets, according to Securities and Exchange Commission documents. Cohn is spearheading the administrations infrastructure policy despite a White House official telling Bloomberg News in February that he will recuse himself from participating in any matter directly involving his former employer. That pledge seemed at the time to show that Cohn was following ethics rules ... enacted in January. Those rules require federal officials to sign an ethics pledge in which they agree to wait two years before they participate in any particular matter involving specific parties that is directly and substantially related to my former employer. Those rules, however, empower Trump to waive the restrictions whenever he wants. Whether or not Cohn has received such a waiver remains secret: the administration has not released a list of waivers, and has moved to block federal agencies from disclosing such waivers to federal ethics regulators.

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