• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    releasing a book after you leave office

    He released his books during his campaign for President and profited enormously of the residuals and subsequent compound return on investments.

    funnel taxpayer money into your own businesses, your friends and family’s business, solicit blatant bribes from both corporations and foreign countries, manipulating the stock market to enable insider trading, and on top of all that making bets on your own actions…

    The Untouchables: How the Obama administration protected Wall Street from prosecutions

    I’ll spot you that Obama didn’t pocket nearly as much as he could have. But it is crazy to suggest a man who has become a fixture of the Wall Street speaking circuit didn’t profit from the bank bailouts he oversaw.