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US Commerce Secretary Ross Changes Story on Net Worth

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Nov 28, 2017
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Wilbur Ross, the beleaguered United States Commerce Secretary, has quietly confessed to the US Office of Government Ethics that he publicly overstated his assets by US$2 billion, blaming it on a conversation he had with a journalist although for 13 years he has been telling Forbes Magazine he was worth more than US$3 billion.

The letter was sent to David…

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