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The most corrupt administration in history:
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May 24, 2017, 3:00 AM PDT
Billionaire’s CVR Energy saves from plunge in energy credits
His crusade to excuse refiners from rules pays off in quarter
Government work has paid off handsomely for billionaire Carl Icahn.
CVR Energy Inc., his oil refining company, saved about $60 million in the first quarter because of expectations that the federal government will ease a regulation involving renewable fuels, securities filings show.
Trump greets Icahn at an election night event on April 19, 2016.Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg
It’s much more than a lucky break. As a “special regulatory adviser” to President Donald Trump, Icahn himself has been advocating the kind of relief that will benefit his company.
Icahn’s cost savings show how the Trump administration has let officials’ outside business interests influence policy decisions. Richard Painter, a University of Minnesota Law School professor and White House ethics counsel under President George W. Bush, calls Icahn’s role “a clear conflict of interest.”
Even before the magnitude of Icahn’s gain was known, a group of U.S. Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to regulators urging them to investigate whether Icahn used his role as adviser to gain unfair trading advantages.
Brandee Stephens, a spokeswoman for Sugar Land, Texas-based CVR declined to comment. Icahn didn’t return several messages left for comment.
Icahn’s windfall results from potential changes in the George W. Bush-era law known as the Renewable Fuel Standard. It requires that billions of gallons of biofuel be added to the nation’s gasoline. Today, about 10 percent of U.S. motor fuel is made from corn, not oil. |
Of course having your husband negotiate a $100 billion plus arms deal--while Saudi Arabia donates $100 million to your favorite charity, and hawking goods in China, the White House and Mar Lago are also not corrupt--in the mind of hypocrites.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-24/icahn-reaps-60-million-windfall-as-trump-regulations-adviser
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Will Fox report this?
| Quote: | | A $41 million Federal Reserve fine related to alleged deficiencies in money-laundering prevention practices at Deutsche Bank AG has prompted the House Financial Services Committee’s top Democrat to call for a probe into the Frankfurt-based bank’s involvement with President Donald Trump. |
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Unnoticed in the revelations of Trump trying to muscle Comey--the House repeals Dodd-Frank. Let Wall Street be Wall Street, cheat the consumers, and bring down the economy. Assisted by those who stand to make a killing in all of the corruption of the administration. A dozen more waivers from the Office of Government Ethics, added to the 12 already granted. Is anyone shocked that Trump lied? Is anyone shocked that Trumpists don't care and haven't noticed?
Alligators on steroids. Trump is like a mafia don. The most dishonest politician in modern times. |
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gee they now have a pass to do what they want in National Parks...
gee they had to pay the trump hotel for the meetings with the epa... gooo figure..
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/6/16/1672368/-EPA-and-Dept-of-Interior-held-a-private-briefing-with-45-gas-and-oil-CEOs-at-Trump-s-D-C-hotel
| Quote: | The Big Oil fix is in. EPA Chief Scott Pruitt held a private briefing with the chief executive officers of 45 gas and oil companies. The topic? No doubt it was coming up with plans to deregulate their industry, roll back pollution and air quality controls, all those things that cost money and get in the way of even bigger profits for Big Oil and Gas. The kicker? Donald Trump himself was enriched by the private swamp meeting, which was held at Trump’s D.C. hotel. Because of course it was.
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As Eric Lipton of the New York Times reports, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke also happened to wander into the meeting.
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Only weeks later, Donald Trump made it a whole lot easier for oil companies to drill in National Parks.
In late March, President Trump signed his 19th executive order, titled “Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth,” which in addition to rolling back a number of Obama-era climate polices may also make it easier for energy companies to drill in America’s national parks.
Buried in the 2,300-word executive order is a sentence directing the Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, to review the rules which regulate oil and gas drilling in national parks and to repeal, suspend, or rescind them if they are found inconsistent with the president’s energy goals.
Big Oil got every single thing they wanted from the meeting. Shortly after the meeting, Secretary Zinke announced they were pausing new oil and gas regulations. The Big Oil investment in the Republican Party is going to pay off very nicely for them, all at the expense of public health and public lands. |
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One day, a florist went to a barber for a haircut. After the cut, he asked about his bill and the barber replied, 'I cannot accept money from you; I'm doing community service this week.'
The florist was pleased and left the shop.
When the barber went to open his shop the next morning, there was a 'thank you' card and a dozen roses waiting for him at his door.
Later, a cop came in for a haircut and when he tried to pay his bill, the barber again replied, 'I cannot accept money from you; I'm doing community service this week.' The cop was happy and left the shop.
The next morning when the barber went to open up, there was a 'thank you' card and a dozen donuts waiting for him at his door.
Then a Congressman came in for a haircut and when he went to pay his bill, the barber again replied, 'I can not accept money from you; I'm doing community service this week.' The Congressman was very happy and left the shop.
The next morning, when the barber went to open up, there were a dozen Congressmen lined up waiting for a free haircut.
And that, my friends, illustrates the fundamental difference between the citizens of our country and the politicians who run it.
As Ronald Reagan said: BOTH POLITICIANS AND DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN.....AND FOR THE SAME REASON!
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| isobars wrote: | One day, a florist went to a barber for a haircut. After the cut, he asked about his bill and the barber replied, 'I cannot accept money from you; I'm doing community service this week.'
The florist was pleased and left the shop.
When the barber went to open his shop the next morning, there was a 'thank you' card and a dozen roses waiting for him at his door.
Later, a cop came in for a haircut and when he tried to pay his bill, the barber again replied, 'I cannot accept money from you; I'm doing community service this week.' The cop was happy and left the shop.
The next morning when the barber went to open up, there was a 'thank you' card and a dozen donuts waiting for him at his door.
Then a Congressman came in for a haircut and when he went to pay his bill, the barber again replied, 'I can not accept money from you; I'm doing community service this week.' The Congressman was very happy and left the shop.
The next morning, when the barber went to open up, there were a dozen Congressmen lined up waiting for a free haircut.
And that, my friends, illustrates the fundamental difference between the citizens of our country and the politicians who run it.
As Ronald Reagan said: BOTH POLITICIANS AND DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN.....AND FOR THE SAME REASON!
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quoting one of the most stupid presidents ever is only done by people who are as stupid.
Regan sais get government out of everything like energy that the corporations know better than government, IE he said rip those solar panels down.... and trickle down.
Well we saw what happened the oil companies were not interested in making us energy independent, in fact they went and applied for so many patents in the solar industry to lock out any company from being able to utilize solar.
So we did not become energy independent.
Next he said trickle down, the rich will create more jobs. Well the wealth diperity has grown every year that that was enacted to this day. I call it piss on america.
So reagan was a moron and fraud...
all you had to do was listen to his own flesh and blood kids who told us he was an idiot. So much so it is the first time in history the kids would not vote for their father... and were public about it. again what does it say to the family faluse so called right wing when their own family would not vote for him.
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What else would we expect from Trump--make the world safe for grifters:
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by EMILY DERUY | ederuy@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: June 15, 2017 at 8:15 am | UPDATED: June 28, 2017 at 12:39 pm
There is no end in sight to the bureaucratic mess in which California students who attended predatory for-profit colleges find themselves entangled.
The U.S. Education Department plans to halt and rewrite rules the Obama administration had created to hold the colleges accountable and help students who were defrauded by schools like Corinthian Colleges get rid of the student loans they took out to pay for what turned out, in many cases, to be a dismal education.
The announcement is the latest blow for students across the country who were reeled in by fraudulent for-profit schools promising opportunities and good jobs but rarely delivering. Most Corinthian schools, including the Heald, Wyotech and Everest campuses, operated in California and thousands of local students have been affected by the Santa Ana-based chain’s 2015 collapse.
Christina Enriquez, 48, didn’t realize how much she was signing away when she put her name on a $25,000 loan for her daughter, Melissa, to study medical coding at Heald College in Salinas. The school “never helped her go out there and actually get the job” as they promised, she said. Enriquez is making payments on the loan but one lost job and an expensive medical procedure later, she still owes around $15,000 and the loan feels like a permanent cloud. “This bill just never goes away and I don’t think it ever will,” said Enriquez, who now works at Walmart.
Christina Enriquez said she even declined a marriage proposal because she was afraid the loan would damage her boyfriend’s good credit. “It stopped me from getting married,” she said. “I refused to marry my boyfriend because I was afraid this was going to haunt him.”
Corinthian’s collapse, which occurred after it came to light the company had defrauded many low-income, vulnerable students, prompted the Obama administration to cut off aid to the school and draft the two rules, which are known as borrower defense to repayment and gainful employment. While consumer advocacy groups praised them, the powerful for-profit industry balked.
So did the United Negro College Fund and other advocacy groups supporting historically black colleges, which have relatively low graduation rates and educate a disproportionate number of low-income, first-generation students of color who often need loans to pay for school. The group recently sent a letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos expressing fears that what was intended as a maneuver to hold deliberately predatory for-profit schools accountable would leave them vulnerable, too.
While for-profit colleges and their lobbyists are calling the department’s postponement this week a win, former students and their families say they are angry and confused by the wonky maneuvering in Washington that has left them buried under mountains of debt.
“I don’t know what to do,” Enriquez said. “They don’t stop charging. It just keeps accumulating more and more and more.”
The Education Department’s decision is not entirely surprising. Republicans had bristled at the regulations when they were initially announced. And the department had already scrapped 2015 guidelines that prohibited loan agencies from charging borrowers high fees if they begin repaying their loans quickly after defaulting. A collection of for-profit colleges had also filed a lawsuit to block one of the rules, which the department said is one reason it is postponing the rules and setting up new committees to renegotiate them.
That process to rework the rules could take months, since the department will have to hold public hearings and talk to schools, students and advocacy groups. Advocates have expressed concern that DeVos, who has been criticized for having financial ties to the for-profit industry, will go too easy on the schools.
The department has promised to continue reviewing applications from students to have their loans discharged during the rewrite process. But earlier this month, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and other state attorneys general sent a letter to the Education Department complaining that 27,000 students who have applied for loan forgiveness and been approved haven’t actually been able to get their loans canceled.
DeVos told Inside Higher Ed, which broke this week’s news, “As I have committed all along, promises made to students under the current rule will be promises kept…We are working with servicers to get these loans discharged as expeditiously as possible.”
But John King, who served as education secretary directly before DeVos and oversaw the release of the old rules, isn’t buying it. “These rules were put in place to protect taxpayers and students — particularly low-income students and students of color — who are most likely to be taken advantage of by unscrupulous institutions,” he said in a statement. “This action indicates, yet again, that this department is abdicating its responsibility to students and taxpayers.” |
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| Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2017 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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No administration in history has been as secretive and rife with conflict of interests: By Danielle Ivory and Robert Faturechi:
| Quote: | WASHINGTON — President Trump entered office pledging to cut red tape, and within weeks, he ordered his administration to assemble teams to aggressively scale back government regulations.
But the effort — a signature theme in Mr. Trump’s populist campaign for the White House — is being conducted in large part out of public view and often by political appointees with deep industry ties and potential conflicts.
Most government agencies have declined to disclose information about their deregulation teams. But The New York Times and ProPublica identified 71 appointees, including 28 with potential conflicts, through interviews, public records and documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
Some appointees are reviewing rules their previous employers sought to weaken or kill, and at least two may be positioned to profit if certain regulations are undone.
The appointees include lawyers who have represented businesses in cases against government regulators, staff members of political dark money groups, employees of industry-funded organizations opposed to environmental rules and at least three people who were registered to lobby the agencies they now work for.
At the Education Department alone, two members of the deregulation team were most recently employed by pro-charter advocacy groups or operators, and one appointee was an executive handling regulatory issues at a for-profit college operator. |
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