when tom daschle s taxes went wrong, when his nomination got pulled in the middle of the confirmation process, that was a distraction for the new obama administration. it was also a rare misstep for them. the incoming obama administration was famously aggressive in making sure all their vetting was air tight. and not just for people who should have been easy to confirm but for everybody. president obama didn t put together a cabinet full of billionaires like our incoming president seems to be doing but he did have one billionaire. he had penny pikser, heir to a hotel fortune, nominated her to be secretary of commerce. you have to fill out a form that lists all your financial holdings and it was 140 pages excuse me. 184 pages long. triplicate, please. the government office of ethics
hotel fortune, nominated her to be secretary of commerce. you have to fill out a form that lists all your financial holdings and it was 140 pages excuse me. 184 pages long. triplicate, please. the government office of ethics had to analyze all of her financial holdings, all of her business ties and come up with a plan to didvest and shield herself from her cabinet position. it took them six full months to come up with that plan because they had to come up with that plan around her almost 200 pages of financial holdings. the new york times reports today she had to sell off her stake in more than 200 different entities in order to satisfy the ethics office, that she could operate in the cabinet without potentially enriching herself or