Trump’s new White House communications chief Anthony Scaramucci has deleted a tweet calling for the FBI and Justice Department to investigate what he said was a “felony” leak of his financial disclosure forms. The documents were actually available to the public four days ago. The documents obtained by Politico show that Scaramucci still holds an ownership stake in his Wall Street hedge fund SkyBridge Capital and earned $4.9 million from it in the first six months of the Trump administration while working at the government’s Export-Import Bank. That’s on top of the $5 million salary he drew. Reporting roughly $85 million in assets, Scaramucci filed the standard White House employee disclosure of his business holdings and any loans or debts he has with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics on June 23, according to the document. Under federal law these documents must be made publicly available online after 30 days, The New York Times points out. That would have made them public documents last Sunday, July 23. Yet Scaramucci lashed out when his disclosure was publicly released. “In light of the leak of my financial disclosure info which is a felony. I will be contacting @FBI and the @TheJusticeDept #swamp,”… Read full this story
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