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奥巴马时代的官员重返价值数百万美元的白宫

2021-03-21 11:54   美国新闻网   - 

随着几名奥巴马时代的官员在总统的带领下重返白宫乔·拜登,他们的重聚带来了更饱满的口袋和更深厚的联系公司利益新的财务披露报告显示。

根据美国广播公司(ABC News)对最新披露报告的分析,拜登的许多白宫高级官员,包括幕僚长罗恩·克莱恩(Ron Klain)、国内政策委员会主任苏珊·赖斯(Susan Rice)、国家经济委员会主任布莱恩·迪斯(Brian Deese)和冠状病毒应对协调员杰夫·齐恩斯(Jeff Zients),在过去几年里财富大幅增加。

赖斯是拜登白宫团队中最富有的成员之一,自她在奥巴马政府期间担任白宫职务以来,她的财富大幅增加,在周六上午发布的新披露文件中,她报告了3600万至1.49亿美元的各种资产。

这几乎是她在2009年以驻联合国大使的身份加入奥巴马政府时报告的三至四倍。当时,她报告的总财富在1360万至4040万美元之间,当她在巴拉克·奥巴马总统的第二个任期内担任他的国家安全顾问时,这个数字没有显著增加。

在最近的一份文件中,赖斯报告说,她持有包括强生、苹果和微软在内的主要公司价值25万至500万美元的股份。她还在网飞拥有大量的股票期权,在那里她担任董事会成员,据报道,去年她通过行使网飞股票期权获得了超过30万美元的收入。此外,她还报告了几家石油和天然气工业公司的股份,包括持有加拿大跨国天然气分销公司安桥公司(Enbridge Inc万至500万美元的股份。

PHOTO: Susan Rice is seen during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York, on Oct. 8, 2019. Rice discussed her book

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2019年10月8日,苏珊·赖斯在纽约接受彭博社电视采访。米饭

赖斯曾担任作家兼演讲业务SeCree LLC的总裁,在过去一年中,她从各种企业和学术演讲活动中获得了约62万美元的收入,从图书版税中获得了25万美元的收入,去年她的总收入在200万美元至670万美元之间。

美国广播公司新闻尚未获得赖斯的道德协议,因此尚不清楚她是否已经或将放弃在私营公司的资产,或者回避与这些公司相关的问题——除了她在网飞的股票期权,她在披露报告中表示,她将放弃这些股票期权。白宫没有立即回应美国广播公司新闻的置评请求。

白宫发言人在一份声明中告诉美国广播公司新闻,“这些白宫官员是经验丰富的政府领导人,他们过去在私营部门的经历是他们为政府服务带来的广泛和多样技能的一部分。”“他们重返政府是因为他们对公共服务的坚定承诺,他们帮助我们的国家走出危机的愿望,以及他们坚信政府可以为美国人民服务。”

对比过去和新披露的信息,拜登的长期顾问克莱恩的财富自2009年以来也增加了两倍。2009年,当他作为拜登的幕僚长加入奥巴马政府时,克莱恩报告说他拥有140万至350万美元的资产,现在他以440万至1220万美元的各种资产进入拜登政府。

PHOTO: Ron Klain, former White House Ebola response coordinator, speaks during a House Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing in Washington, D.C., March 10, 2020.

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罗恩·克莱恩,前白宫埃博拉应对协调员,在众议院国土安全会议上发言

克莱恩的大部分财富来自与他的工作相关的各种资产。2020年,他从风险投资公司Revolution LLC获得了近200万美元的工资,他在那里担任执行副总裁兼总法律顾问,而他在2009年初提交的文件中报告说,他获得了100万美元的工资。

齐恩斯是拜登政府中截至周六晚披露资产的最富有官员之一,超过了Vanita Gupta拜登提名的助理司法部长。白宫尚未公布美国广播公司新闻要求的所有披露。

Zients报告称拥有8930万至4.428亿美元的资产,包括各种投资基金、房地产和现金股份。他已经放弃了他在私人投资公司克兰梅雷集团的股份,以及价值100万美元的Facebook股份,他在Facebook担任董事会成员。

PHOTO: Jeff Zients, White House COVID Coordinator, listens as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. speaks to reporters during a news conference, Friday, March 19, 2021, in New York.

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杰夫·兹恩斯,白宫COVID协调员,作为参议院多数党领袖查克·舒默,正在倾听

他报告说,在过去的一年里,他的收入在1040万美元到2800万美元之间,包括他投资公司的7位数工资,以及他剥离的其他几笔7位数资产。

自2009年他第一次以管理和预算办公室副主任的身份加入奥巴马白宫以来,他的总财富翻了一番多,当时他报告的资产在4520万美元至2.057亿美元之间。

在她的披露报告中,白宫新闻秘书珍·普萨基(Jen Psaki)报告说,从Zients那里收到了超过5000美元的通信咨询费,尽管该报告没有关于这笔交易的进一步细节。自从她在奥巴马政府的第一份白宫工作以来,她的资产也有了显著增长。2009年,Psaki的资产在32,000至130,000美元之间,收入为125,000美元,但在2021年,她报告说她的财富增加了至少10倍,达到150万美元,年收入约为647,742美元。

她过去一年的大部分收入来自她创办的常青咨询有限责任公司和卡内基国际和平基金会智囊团。她还担任过CNN撰稿人和WestExec的顾问。WestExec是一家咨询公司,由现任国务卿安东尼·布林肯(Antony Blinken)于2017年创建,几位奥巴马时代的官员曾在该公司工作。除了Zients付给她的5000美元之外,Lyft和其他几家公司也付给她同样的咨询费。

自2009年以来,迪斯的财富也大幅增加,当时他第一次担任白宫工作,担任奥巴马的经济政策特别助理。2015年,就在他担任管理和预算办公室副主任几个月之后,Deese报告称拥有8.1万至21.5万美元的资产——但现在,作为拜登政府的一员,他报告称拥有200万至720万美元的资产。在加入拜登政府之前,迪斯作为可持续投资的全球负责人,从投资公司贝莱德获得了230万美元的工资,相比之下,他在担任奥巴马的OMB副主任的最后一年获得了17.5万美元的工资。

高级政府官员通常会放弃他们在特定私营公司中的财务利益,他们可以按照道德规范的要求对这些公司进行监管,或者回避可能影响其个人财务利益的事务。拜登的一些白宫官员在披露报告中表示,他们将放弃公司利益,但他们避免利益冲突的计划的全部内容尚不清楚,因为美国广播公司新闻尚未获得他们的道德协议。

白宫办公厅副主任珍·欧玛利·狄龙作为精密战略公司的客户,得到了通用电气公司、来福公司、陈·扎克伯格倡议公司和盖茨风险投资公司等公司的咨询费,她是精密战略公司的创始合伙人之一。

她在披露表中报告了220万至470万美元的资产,以及过去一年超过80万美元的收入,其中包括426,067美元的递延薪酬和精密战略公司的遣散费,以及该公司5万美元的工资。在成为拜登的竞选经理之前,她作为贝托·奥洛克的竞选经理赚了11万多美元,年薪超过19万美元。

拜登目前的国家安全顾问杰克·沙利文(Jake Sullivan)是另一位千万富翁,据报道,他与配偶玛格丽特·古德兰德(Margaret Goodlander)持有750万至2750万美元的资产,玛格丽特·古德兰德是现任司法部长梅里克·加兰(Merrick Garland)的前法律助理。他的大部分财富来自分散在佛罗里达州和新罕布什尔州的一长串住宅和商业房地产,他还持有雅培实验室、美国运通、Facebook、联邦快递、谷歌、默克、维萨和威瑞森等私人公司价值5至6位数美元的股份。

过去一年,沙利文在咨询公司宏咨询合伙人(Macro Advisory Partners)的工资为13.8万美元,他的企业咨询客户包括优步(Uber)、乐高(LEGO)、万事达(MasterCard)和渣打银行(Standard Chartered Bank)。他还在耶鲁和达特茅斯大学担任学术职务。

在第一夫人吉尔·拜登(Jill Biden)的办公室里,办公室主任朱丽莎·雷诺索(Julissa Reynoso)是温斯顿·斯特朗(Winston & Strawn)律师事务所的合伙人,她去年在那里获得了150多万美元的奖金。她报告的资产在410万美元至1480万美元之间,去年的总收入高达190万美元,包括纽约和迈阿密的租赁物业收入,以及南达科他州苏福尔斯和北卡罗来纳州亨德森的商业物业收入等。她还在披露表中列出了多米尼加共和国一处空置的海滨房产。

白宫周六向美国广播公司新闻部提供了这些披露。

Obama-era officials return to White House worth millions

As several Obama-era officials return to the White House under PresidentJoe Biden, their reunion comes with fuller pockets and deeper ties tocorporate interests, new financial disclosure reports show.

According to ABC News' analysis of the most recent disclosure reports, many of Biden's top White House officials, including Chief of Staff Ron Klain, Domestic Policy Council Director Susan Rice, National Economic Council Director Brian Deese, and coronavirus response coordinator Jeff Zients, have substantially multiplied their wealth over the past few years.

Rice, who is among the wealthiest members of the Biden White House team, dramatically increased her wealth since her previous White House job during the Obama administration, reporting between $36 million and $149 million in various assets in her new disclosure filing released Saturday morning.

That's nearly three to four times the amount she reported back in 2009, when she joined the Obama administration as the ambassador to the United Nations. Back then she reported total wealth between $13.6 million and $40.4 million, and the figure didn't increase dramatically when she served as President Barack Obama's national security advisor during his second term.

In her most recent filing, Rice reported holding shares worth between $250,000 and $5 million in major corporations including Johnson & Johnson, Apple and Microsoft. She also had a significant amount of stock options in Netflix, where she served as a board member, and reported earning more than $300,000 from exercising Netflix stock options in the past year. In addition, she reported shares in several oil and gas industry companies, including $1 million to $5 million of holdings in the Canadian multinational natural gas distribution company Enbridge Inc.

Rice, who served as the president of her author and speaking business SERice LLC, earned roughly $620,000 from various corporate and academic speaking engagements in the past year, and $250,000 from book royalties, with her total income from the past year amounting to between $2 million and $6.7 million.

ABC News has not yet obtained Rice's ethics agreement, so it's not yet clear if she has or will divest from her assets in private companies or recuse herself from matters related to those companies -- except for her stock options in Netflix, which she said in her disclosure report that she'll be divesting. The White House did not immediately respond to ABC News' request for comment.

"These White House officials are experienced government leaders whose past private sector experience is part of a broad and diverse skill set they bring to government service," a White House spokesperson told ABC News in a statement. "They have returned to government because of their deep commitment to public service, their desire to help bring our nation out of this time of crisis, and their strong belief that government can work for the American people."

Klain, a longtime adviser to Biden, has also tripled his wealth since 2009, a comparison of his past and new disclosures shows. When he joined the Obama administration in 2009 as Biden's chief of staff, Klain reported owning between $1.4 million and $3.5 million in assets, and he now enters the Biden administration with between $4.4 million and $12.2 million in various assets.

Much of Klain's wealth comes from various assets related to his employment. In 2020 he received nearly $2 million in salary from the venture capital firm Revolution LLC, where he was executive vice president and general counsel, compared to $1 million he reported receiving in salary in his filing from early 2009.

Zients is the single wealthiest Biden administration official that had disclosed assets as of Saturday evening, surpassingVanita Gupta, Biden's nominees for associate attorney general, in his total assets. The White House has not yet released all of the disclosures requested by ABC News.

Zients reported owning between $89.3 million and $442.8 million in assets, including various investment funds, real estate properties and cash shares. He has divested his shares in his private investment firm, Cranemere Group, as well as $1 million worth of shares in Facebook, where he has served as a board member.

He reported making between $10.4 million and $28 million in income in the past year, including his seven-figure salary from his investment firm, as well as other several seven-figure assets he has divested from.

His total wealth has more than doubled since he first joined the Obama White House as the deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget in 2009, when he reported assets between $45.2 million and $205.7 million.

In her disclosure report, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki reported receiving a communications consulting fee from Zients in excess of $5,000 -- though the report has no further details on the transaction. Her assets have also grown significantly since her first White House job during the Obama administration. In 2009, Psaki had reported between $32,000 and $130,000 in assets and $125,000 in income, but in 2021 she reported her wealth had increased at least tenfold, to up to $1.5 million in assets with an annual income of roughly $647,742.

Much of her income from the past year came from Evergreen Consulting LLC, which she founded, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace think tank. She also worked as a CNN contributor and an adviser to WestExec, a consulting firm founded in 2017 by current Secretary of State Antony Blinken, at which several Obama-era officials worked. In addition to the $5,000 Zients paid her, she was paid the same consulting fee by Lyft, among a handful of other companies.

Deese's wealth has also multiplied dramatically since 2009, when he took his first White House job as Obama's special assistant for economic policy. In 2015, just a few months into his role as deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, Deese reported owning between $81,000 and $215,000 in assets -- but now, as a member of the Biden administration, he's reported between $2 million and $7.2 million in assets. Prior to joining the Biden administration, Deese made $2.3 million in salary from the investment firm BlackRock as the Global Head of Sustainable Investing, compared to the $175,000 in salary he received during his last year as Obama's deputy OMB director.

High-ranking government officials typically divest their financial interests in specific private companies that they may regulate, as required by ethics rules, or recuse themselves from matters that could affect their personal financial interests. Some of the Biden White House officials have indicated in their disclosure reports that they will divest from their corporate interests, but the full extent of their plans to avoid conflict of interest are not yet known because ABC News has not yet obtained their ethics agreements.

Jen O'Malley Dillon, the White House deputy chief of staff, was paid consulting fees by General Electric, Lyft, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Gates Ventures, among others, as clients of Precision Strategies, a marketing agency in which she was a founding partner.

She reported between $2.2 million to $4.7 million in assets on her disclosure form and more than $800,000 in income in the past year, which includes $426,067 deferred compensation and severance from Precision Strategies, on top of $50,000 in salary from the firm. She also made more than $110,000 as Beto O'Rourke's campaign manager before becoming Biden's campaign manager at a salary of over $190,000.

Jake Sullivan, Biden's current national security adviser, is another multimillionaire, reporting assets between $7.5 million and $27.5 million held with his spouse, Margaret Goodlander, a former law clerk to now-Attorney General Judge Merrick Garland. Much of his wealth comes from a long list of residential and commercial real estate properties scattered throughout Florida and New Hampshire, and he also reported holding five- to six-figure dollars' worth of shares in private companies including Abbott Labs, American Express, Facebook, FedEx, Google, Merck, Visa and Verizon.

Sullivan's salary from the consulting firm Macro Advisory Partners in the past year was $138,000, and his corporate consulting clients included Uber, LEGO, MasterCard and Standard Chartered Bank. He also held academic positions at Yale and Dartmouth.

In first lady Jill Biden's office, chief of staff Julissa Reynoso was a partner at the law firm of Winston & Strawn, where she made more than $1.5 million last year with a $150,000 bonus. She reported between $4.1 million and $14.8 million in assets, and made up to $1.9 million in total income in the past year, including income from rental properties in New York and Miami as well as commercial properties in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Henderson, North Carolina, among others. She also listed a vacant beachfront property in the Dominican Republic on her disclosure form.

The disclosures were provided by the White House to ABC News on Saturday.

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