Treasury Department spokesman Tony Sayegh said Mnuchin has “no conflicts of interest that would limit his participation in ongoing China talks.”. He in effect reacquired the assets of the company, which again posed a potential conflict of interest, according to OGE officials. In 2017, during an interview with Axios, Mnuchin plugged a film being produced by another film company he still had a stake in. Sayegh tweeted a statement insisting that the ethics issue was merely a “technical difference” between Mnuchin’s own staff and OGE. He tweeted earlier that the Times’ article about Mnuchin and the film holdings was “ill informed and irresponsible.”

Source: Huffington Post April 06, 2019 04:18 UTC