Trump’s wealthy Cabinet picks will have to divest. But the rules make that a potentially lucrative prospect | CNN Business

Moving from a Wall Street corner office to a DC corner office comes at a cost: For a top financier who’s been asked to run the Treasury Department, say, you could be looking at a pay cut of tens of millions of dollars a year. On top of that, you’d have to offload any stock holdings that create a potential conflict of interest with the new gig.

But cry not for the titans of industry who deign to take on government work. The way the rules are set up — largely unchanged from

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