"The photographer who took the money shot last week said on CNN's Reliable Sources Sunday that she can't fathom why Mnuchin would think the photographs would not be made public. "I think it was pretty obvious it was a media photo op," Martin said."
"...Should Sears go bankrupt and you if confirmed as Treasury Secretary, are a PBGC director who would have a role in the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation’s attempts, as an unsecured creditor, to recover $2 Billion for the unfunded liabilities in the Sears pension fund while simultaneously trying to not lose money in your hedge fund investments in Sears that you hold with your college roommate who is the CEO of Sears. How is it that you’re going to do that? Mnuchin: So let me just correct again because you said again that I made $26 million which I didn’t, I invested 26 million, so I just want to make sure that the record stated that. Let me first say that my original involvement with Mr. Lampert was with Kmart coming out of bankruptcy. Where all the professionals thought that Kmart should be liquidated, and Mr. Lampert… working for him saved tens of hundreds of thousands of jobs...."
"'When OneWest foreclosure victims heard that Mnuchin was chosen to lead the Treasury Department, they were shocked. “When he was nominated, it was like the floor crashed underneath me,” said McCreary. “It brought back everything. His name was on my paperwork.'"
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