this lays out how he may have used his position in the trump administration to drive down costs of his company and drive the stock price of his company up. the white house defense was to deny that karl icon had ever had this job in the first place. he was just a private citizen, nothing to do with us. if you re thinking this whole thing smacks of banana republic corruption, it s because it does. he s been sending up what he called an emergency flare asking questions about that icahn case. who is going to police this in this kind of situation is why we have a public integrity section at the department of justice. but in this particular part of the department of justice doesn t pursue it, there san
that a thing will happen, billionaire then joins trump administration to ensure that that thing will in fact happen. billionaire collects. that s it. congratulations. your country is now a former soviet corruptstan and the ruling family would like to see you right now. this is textbook banana republic corruption. people taking government jobs that then they use to make themselves rich in the private sector. the thank s actually most unnerving about the karl icahn story is how in the hope it s been happening. reuters made this chapter showing how the credits dropped. trump named and epa director who shares carl icahn s views and the white house announced that
billionaire collects. that s it. congratulations. your country is now a former soviet corruptstan and the ruling family would like to see you right now. this is textbook banana republic corruption. people taking government jobs that then they use to make themselves rich in the private sector. the thank s actually most unnerving about the karl icahn story is how in the hope it s been happening. reuters made this chapter showing how the credits dropped. trump named and epa director who shares carl icahn s views and the white house announced that he will have an official role as an adviser and the credits dropped a little more and then a new biofuels regulation plan conceived by karl icahn was
he will have an official role as an adviser and the credits dropped a little more ap and then a new biofuels regulation plan conceived by karl icahn was delivered to the white house and the price of those credits dropped more. every time that happened, that bet that he made was getting better and better. if you made that bet a few months back that the value of the credits would drop, yeah, you made a prettily good bet but it looks like your actions as part of the trump administration are what made that bet turn out so well for you. this is just textbook. in the months after trump s election the stock price of karl icahn s company which directly benefitted from the dropping price of the credits, the stock price of his refinery company nearly doubled. that s hundreds of millions of dollars for karl icahn. but now karl icahn is out, he
delivered to the white house and the price of those credits dropped more. every time that happened, that bet that he made was getting better and better. if you made that bet a few months back that the value of the credits would drop, yeah, you made a prettily good bet but it looks like your actions as part of the trump administration are what made that bet turn out so well for you. this is just textbook. in the months after trump s election the stock price of karl icahn s company which directly benefitted from the dropping price of the credits, the stock price of his refinery company nearly doubled. that s hundreds of millions of dollars for karl icahn. but now karl icahn is out, he resigned as regulatory adviser of the president last week, resigned moments before the new yorker published this bombshell piece detailing, and i mean