After campaigning with lots of populist and anti-Wall Street rhetoric, Donald Trump is seriously considering a veteran Wall Street financier, Steve Mnuchin, to be his Treasury secretary.
Mnuchin spent 17 years at Goldman Sachs, ultimately as a partner at the investment bank. More recently, he’s headed a privately owned hedge fund, Dune Capital Management. Last April he became Trump’s chief fundraiser, and he’s now a member of the president-elect’s transition team.
But Mnuchin’s resume also includes a stint as chairman and CEO of a California bank that’s been called a foreclosure machine.
During the depths of the financial crisis, Mnuchin was looking to make profits from the ruins of the housing bust. In 2009, he put together a group of billionaire investors and bought a failed California-based bank, IndyMac. It had been taken over by the Federal Deposit…
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