When the nominee for Secretary of the Treasury forgets what he owns certain large properties or that he is a director for an investment fund based in the Cayman Islands, he responds with the following.
“I think as you all can appreciate, filling out these government forms is quite complicated,” Mr. Mnuchin said, noting that he had handed over 5,000 pages of disclosures. “Let me first say, any oversight, it was unintentional.”
“In his revised questionnaire, Mr. Mnuchin disclosed several additional financial assets, including $95 million worth of real estate — a co-op in New York City, a residence in Southampton, New York, a residence in Los Angeles, California, and $15 million in real estate holdings in Mexico,” Democratic staff members of the Senate Finance Committee wrote in a memo on Thursday. “Mr. Mnuchin has claimed these omissions were due to a misunderstanding of the questionnaire.”
Unintentionally or because of a misunderstanding; really, seriously? I could understand if he has applying for some little job somewhere but wtf this is Sec of the Treasury, you triple and quadruple check your paperwork and ask for a damn extension if necessary. Also if the paper work is confusing wait till you see the job.