was nothing to quit. he never had that job at all. that job he just quit, he never had that. white house started to say that carl icahn never had formal appointment or title, even though they formally announced his employment and title. started saying carl icahn was just a public citizen. at the time the public ethics sent out emergency flare tweets calling on justice department to investigate this behavior on the part of the president s adviser. later told us the matter was on their radar. that s where we left it in august. carl icahn quit and sensing that law enforcement authorities were following behind him closely out the door. since then continued to call the new york attorney general s office to talk about the matter. still on their radar.
there s that the. but subpoenaed the heck out of carl icahn, trump s adviser on regulatory affairs and demanding information about what he was doing in the markets while advising the president on matters that could affect the price of his behaviors in the market. carl icahn story is the most banana republic story we have in the trump administration and now involving subpoenas and federal prosecutor s office. can t say we didn t see it coming. watch this space. shut down cold symptoms fast with maximum strength alka seltzer plus liquid gels. only have a sore throat? get long-lasting relief for up to 6 hours with new alka seltzer plus sore throat relief.
called carl icahn s office enough to make me feel rude but had no response. 12 weeks since he stepped down and haven t heard anything more formal about whether or not law enforcement authorities were chasing him down on this matter. hadn t heard anything until now. started to get rumblings on wednesday of last week, reuter s reported that carl icahn s oil refinery unwound a short position in market. karl icahn dumped out of this bet on the matter he had been advising the white house about. stepped down in august. why did you then dump out of the bets? learned about that wednesday. then friday, icahn enterprises filed a quarterly report.
the new yorker magazine talking about how white house could earn him hundreds of millions of dollars if white house took his advice and paid off for his businesses. that s a crime. statute that makes it illegal to work on any matter in which they may have a direct financial interest. which carl icahn did. that was a real problem potentially for him and white house. and that friday night, this summer in august, i remember the new yorker posted that piece and at the same moment, minutes before, on the same day that steve bannon was resigning and nobody noticed, carl icahn quit and immediately he and white house started to insist, there
under item 5, other information, they revealed something else going on here as serious as a heart attack. revealed that the federal prosecutors and u.s. attorneys office for the seventh district of new york recently contacted icahn enterprises seeking production of information pertaining to our and mr. icahn s activities relating to renewable fuel standard and mr. icahn s role advising the president. told this we are quote, cooperating. so that other information note on page 59 of the quarterly filing went under the radar until today when bloomberg broke the news of federal investigators issuing subpoenas for kacarl icahn and his compan. wants you to know, made no so