Posted on 11/29/2016 2:41:20 PM PST by SeekAndFind
From Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Mnuchin
Steven Mnuchin was born to a Jewish family, circa 1963. He is the son of Elaine Terner Cooper, of New York, and Robert E. Mnuchin, of Washington, Connecticut.
His father was a banker, a partner at Goldman Sachs, in charge of equity trading and a member of the management committee, and the founder of the Mnuchin Gallery at 45 East 78th Street, New York. He graduated from Yale University.
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Mnuchin amassed a fortune estimated at over $40 million while working for Goldman Sachs for 17 years, where his father had worked for three decades and had also made a fortune.
In 2002, Mnuchin left Goldman and worked briefly for his Yale roommate Edward Lampert, chief executive of Sears. He also briefly worked for Soros Fund Management in their private equity division during the “Goldman” period with Jacob Goldfield and Mark Schwartz.
After this stint, he founded RatPac-Dune Entertainment, which produced a number of notable films, including the X-Men film franchise and Avatar.
Dune bought the failed housing lender IndyMac in 2009, buying it out of bankruptcy from the FDIC and renaming it OneWest with Mnuchin as chair. According to The New York Times, OneWest “was involved in a string of lawsuits over questionable foreclosures, and settled several cases for millions of dollars.” OneWest was sold to CIT Group in 2015.
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In Hollywood, Mnuchin, along with film producer Brett Ratner and financier James Packer, working with RatPac-Dune Entertainment, produced American Sniper and Mad Max: Fury Road. Mnuchin was co-chairman of the trio’s movie company, Relativity Media
You beat me going there.
I am happiest of all that I am not hearing the same old names as has been running things for decades
Hope he’s not a Starbucks customer. That’s a total fail in my book.
Great, he was the campaign treasurer and loyalty should be rewarded when the person in question is also highly qualified and experienced.
Wait, wasn’t Heidi Cruz evil because she worked at Goldman?
So hard to keep up.
In seriousness, looks like a good choice.
Clark Kent???
LOL good point.
He is as close to “one of us” as you will find in Hollywood. Good pick.
Love!!!
GS + CFR, bad combo
Am I too fussy to have a problem with his connection with Cameron’s “Avatar” in which the Marines were portrayed as wanton killers and cretins.
Just a tad incongruous for Trump, who professes to love our military and vets!
Please not!
Another Goldman-Sachs operative for treasury?
After Trump and his campaign (rightly!) ravaged Heidi Cruz and Hilliary for their Goldman-Sachs connections?
Trump even singled out Goldman-Sachs boss Blankfein as a chief globalist villain, for heavens sake!
I would be very dissapointed over this pick.
It was reported by the Wall Street Journal on January 2, 2009 that the group that bought IndyMac out of bankruptcy was led by George Soros.
Here’s a related article in the LA times: http://articles.latimes.com/2009/mar/20/business/fi-indymac20
She was evil because of the undisclosed loans, a violation, while on temporary from Goldman. Mnuchin has been out of the fold these 15 years.
Is there a mnemonic device that will help us know how to pronounce his name?
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