Trump's cabinet is the embodiment of injustice, inhumanity, unfettered greed, cronyism, and corruption.
Alexander Acosta
2007 Alexander Acosta as a District Attorney works out a plea bargain with Billionaire pedophile and personal friend of Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, where Epstien would only spend 13 months in prison for raping dozens of young girls. (
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Not to mention Acosta's concerted efforts to undermine the Civil Rights division of the Justice Dept and role in the theft of the 2004 presidential election:
http://billmoyers.com/story/trumps-labor-pick-history-attacking-voting-rights/
Wilbur Ross
1990 Wilbur Ross bails Trumps Atlantic City Casino out of bankruptcy. (
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Not to mention his profiteering on the mortgage meltdown -- and responsibility for countless unnecessary and unlawful foreclosures after pulling American Home Mortgage out of bankruptcy (AHM was the first giant to go belly up. Ross also bought the servicing rights—the rights to manage day-to-day operations and determine whether to modify or foreclose mortgages—on about $132 billion in loans. They were the second-largest servicer of subprime loans in America.)
Lynn Szymoniak, a whistle-blower who fought AHMSI in court and who won a $95 million case against several servicers on behalf of the federal government in 2012, explains that Ross’s company outsourced its mortgage-document operations. They used a company called DocX, which forged millions of mortgage assignments, claiming to be the officers of dozens of different banks. These documents were fraudulently signed after the fact to recreate a chain of title that lenders broke; they were a document clean-up shop. Lorraine Brown, the CEO of DocX, went to prison for five years for this activity, making her the only person to be jailed for foreclosure fraud.
After entrusting its mortgage operation to fraudsters, AHMSI eventually changed its name to Homeward Residential, and got bought out by Ocwen. Wilbur Ross stayed involved in Ocwen, serving on the board of directors. If anything, Ocwen was worse than AHMSI. It routinely broke the law, with “systematic misconduct at every stage of the mortgage process,” according to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray. In 2013, CFPB fined Ocwen $2.1 billion for, among other things: charging borrowers unauthorized fees, failing to apply borrower payments to loans, failing to maintain accurate accounting statements, imposing insurance policies on borrowers who already had them, deceiving borrowers about loan modifications, and robo-signing foreclosure documents in fraud upon state courts.
One of my favorite Ocwen stories is the backdating scandal. Under the law, servicers must inform borrowers of why they were denied a loan modification and give them 30 days to appeal. Ocwen sent thousands of these letters backdated 30 days from the sending, giving borrowers no time to act. (
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Each and every DT "pick" has a hand in jacking up the American misery index over the past few decades.
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