Scaramucci awaits U.S. approval for China deal

[riversedge]

July 21, 2017 / 10:34 PM / 14 hours ago

Scaramucci awaits U.S. approval for China deal


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New White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci, flanked by White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, speaks at the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S. July 21, 2017.Jonathan Ernst

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Anthony Scaramucci, the Trump administration's new communications director, has yet to get approval from U.S. regulators to sell his hedge fund firm to a group led by Chinese conglomerate HNA, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Scaramucci agreed in January to sell SkyBridge Capital LLC to clear the way for a job working with U.S. President Donald Trump. .....................................

But the sale of SkyBridge has yet to get the green light from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which reviews acquisitions by foreign entities for potential national security risks.

Many of the heads of the government departments and agencies comprising CFIUS are political appointees, and it is chaired by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin........................

[dalton99a]

1. It's a done deal

[rzemanfl]

2. Along with his exemption from capital gains taxes. All he has to do is lie like a rug.

Fucking goddamn grifters. They are laughing at us as they rape the U.S. like Russian soldiers in Berlin in 1945.

[secondwind]

3. Maybe the orange menace gets a "cut"