[인물정보] 미국 트럼프 새 내각, 재무장관 '므누신' 누구? ① 골드만삭스 ② 헤지펀드 ③ 예일대 ④ 유대인 ⑤ 아바타

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미국 트럼프 정부 초대 재무장관 후보로 스티븐 므누신이 급부상하고 있다.

므누신은 트럼프 선거캠프에서 금융위원장을 지낸 인물이다.

명문 예일대를 졸업하고 골드만삭스에 들어가 금융인으로 입신했다.

17년간 골드만삭스에서 잔뼈가 굵은 후 2002년 헤지펀드 회사인 '듄 캐피널 매니지먼트'를 만들었다.
므누신은 이 시설 할리우드 영화 투자에도 열을 올리기도 했다.

'엑스맨'과 '아바타'에 투자하여 큰 돈을 벌었다.

골드만 삭스 출신으로는 3번째 재무장관에 오른다.

행크 폴슨(조지 W 부시 정권)과 로버트 루빈(빌 클린턴 정권)이 골드만삭스 출신 재무장관이었다.

Steven Mnuchin 약력

생년월일 December 21, 1962
출신학교 미국 예일대

Steven Terner Mnuchin (born December 21, 1962) is an American banker, film producer and political fundraiser. He was a former partner for Goldman Sachs for 17 years where he amassed a fortune estimated at over $40 million.

He then founded the hedge fund RatPac-Dune Entertainment.

Steven Mnuchin was born to a Jewish family, circa 1963.

He is the son of Elaine Terner Cooper, of New York, and Robert E. Mnuchin, of Washington, Connecticut.

His father was a banker, a partner at Goldman Sachs, in charge of equity trading and a member of the management committee, and the founder of the Mnuchin Gallery at 45 East 78th Street, New York. He graduated from Yale University.

He is reported to be the Treasury Secretary Designee.

Mnuchin amassed a fortune estimated at over $40 million while working for Goldman Sachs for 17 years, where his father had worked for three decades and had also made a fortune.

In 2002, Mnuchin left Goldman and worked briefly for his Yale roommate Edward Lampert, chief executive of Sears. He also briefly worked for Soros Fund Management in their private equity division during the "Goldman" period with Jacob Goldfield and Mark Schwartz.

After this stint, he founded RatPac-Dune Entertainment, which produced a number of notable films, including the X-Men film franchise and Avatar.[6] Dune bought the failed housing lender IndyMac in 2009, buying it out of bankruptcy from the FDIC and renaming it OneWest with Mnuchin as chair. According to The New York Times, OneWest "was involved in a string of lawsuits over questionable foreclosures, and settled several cases for millions of dollars." OneWest was sold to CIT Group in 2015.

In November 2016, two nonprofits filed a complaint with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, alleging redlining by OneWest Bank.

The California Reinvestment Coalition, which opposed CIT Group's acquisition of OneWest, helped to highlight a number of issues about the bank, using Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. First, the "shared loss agreements" that Mnuchin and his group of investors secured from the FDIC when buying IndyMac and La Jolla banks proved to be quite lucrative. According to data obtained from the FDIC, as of December 2014, it had already paid out over $1 billion to OneWest for the costs of failed loans (foreclosures). The FDIC estimated it would have to pay out another $1.4 billion to OneWest before 2019.

CRC also submitted a FOIA request to United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to learn more about OneWest's reverse mortgage subsidiary, Financial Freedom. According to the data that HUD provided in its FOIA response, Financial Freedom foreclosed on 16,220 federally insured reverse mortgages from April 2009 to April 2016. This represents about 39% of all federally insured reverse mortgage foreclosures during that time frame. The 39% figure was criticized by CRC, who estimated that Financial Freedom only serviced about 17% of the market. In other words, Financial Freedom was foreclosing at twice the amount that one would expect, given its share of the market.

CIT Group, which purchased OneWest, disclosed to investors that it had received subpoenas from HUD's Office of the Inspector General in the third and fourth quarters of 2015.

Because Mnuchin received stock in CIT Group when it purchased OneWest, it's possible he could sell it tax free if he were confirmed to be Treasury Secretary and if he reinvested the proceeds in Treasuries or government approved funds, according to Bloomberg, which suggests Mnuchin has $97 million in CIT stock.

In Hollywood, Mnuchin, along with film producer Brett Ratner and financier James Packer, working with RatPac-Dune Entertainment, produced American Sniper and Mad Max: Fury Road. Mnuchin was co-chairman of the trio's movie company, Relativity Media, but left before it went bankrupt.

A source close to the company said that he had resigned because of the potential for a conflict of interest between his duties at Relativity and OneWest, which had been sold days ago; weeks prior to Relativity's insolvency filling, OneWest was allowed to drain $50 million from it.

In May 2016, he was named finance chair of the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign.


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