Trump's top aides disclose complex financial ties

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Ivanka has also kept a stake in the Trump Trump International Hotel valued between US$5 million and US$25 million.

The documents show a snapshot of what employees' finances looked like when they first joined the USA administration but they do not provide a full account of how White House staff are now disentangling from business assets that could pose possible conflicts of interest.

Ivanka did not release her own financial disclosure forms yet, but her husband, Jared Kushner, did so recently.

The Trump administration released the financial disclosure forms of some White House staff members on Friday night and, according to the New York Times, the First Daughter and her husband "will remain the beneficiaries of a sprawling real estate and investment business still worth as much as $740 million, despite their new government responsibilities".

Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter and unpaid assistant, valued her retail brand at more than $50 million.

Another key advisor included in the disclosure is counselor to the President, Kellyanne Conway who made more than $1m (AUD) previous year from her consulting firm.

The ethics filing released Friday night by the White House detailed the assets of almost 200 Trump staffers, including first daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, chief strategist Steve Bannon and right down to Omarosa Manigault, "The Apprentice" star turned White House political aide. Those, too, only have to be reported in ranges, but at least 51 hold assets worth $1 million or more. Little information was given on several of his assets and only indicated they were worth more than US$1 million.

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Since the White House wasn't going to post the documents publicly, we did. The legally required disclosures not only demonstrate the huge personal assets of his team as they entered their new positions, but have continued to cause alarm about ongoing conflicts of interest.

Since winning the November election Donald Trump's vast business empire has been scrutinised by ethics experts who say it poses major conflicts of interest. However, those attorneys, in consultation with the Office of Government Ethics, determined that most of his real-estate assets posed conflicts that were "pretty narrow and very manageable", the Associated Press reports. But the couple held onto much of what they have built into a global and real estate-focused empire. Chief strategist Stephen Bannon reported between $13 and $56 million.

The assets listed on the forms are not the current holdings everyone has today, but ones they held at the time they came into office, a senior administration official said at a briefing with reporters.

But the White House required a separate request for each staffer's disclosure.

Conway gave speeches or provided political consulting services to dozens of political interest groups, mostly advocating conservative causes. Former President Barack Obama's employees' finances eight years ago were found to be "simple" or "moderate" by the Office of Government Ethics, whereas the Trump appointees' holdings were judged "complex" or "extremely complex", the Guardian reported.

"I want people that made a fortune", Mr. Trump said at a rally in Des Moines, Iowa, in December as he was building his Cabinet. She owned stock in drug giant Pfizer, food conglomerates Kraft Heinz and Mondelez, and tobacco companies Altria and Philip Morris, according to the financial documents.

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