Cobb was recommended to Trump by John Dowd, who was a member of his private legal team. Cobb said that there is no reason to believe that Trump is personally under investigation, and that "They're in full cooperation mode and they've been directed to fully cooperate and get this over with as quickly as possible."
Cobb is the son of Grover C. Cobb, a Kansas radio station owner who was senior executive vice-president of the National Association of Broadcasters (which named one of their prestigious awards for him).
Ty Cobb (born 1950) is an American lawyer. He was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland in 1981ā86. He has been a partner at Hogan Lovells in Washington, D.C.. From July 2017 until May 2018 he was a member of the Trump administration legal team.
Other Trump Cabinet members had more typical net-worths. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had an estimated net worth of $266,510 in 2016, while he was earning $185,100 in annual salary as CIA director.
Cobb was recommended to Trump by John Dowd, who was a member of his private legal team. Cobb said that there is no reason to believe that Trump is personally under investigation, and that "They're in full cooperation mode and they've been directed to fully cooperate and get this over with as quickly as possible.".
In 1986, he joined the Baltimore law firm Miles and Stockbridge. Two years later, he joined Hogan & Hartson, which became Hogan Lovells. Cobb served as special trial counsel during an independent investigation of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the 1990s.
Cobb joined the White House to manage matters related to the ongoing investigations into Russian election interference, starting on July 31, 2017. Cobb was part of the White House internal legal team and reported directly to President Trump. Cobb said that he accepted the White House assignment because "it was an impossible task with a deadline.".
Career. Cobb served as a law clerk for a federal judge, then Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland in 1981-86 based in Baltimore as chief of the criminal section and head of the region's drug enforcement and organized crime task force. In 1986, he joined the Baltimore law firm Miles and Stockbridge.
On May 2, 2018 , Cobb announced that he was retiring as White House special counsel at the end of the month. He issued a statement that "it has been an honor to serve the country in this capacity at the White House. I wish everybody well moving forward.".
Political party. Independent. Ty Cobb (born 1950) is an American lawyer. He was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland in 1981ā86. He has been a partner at Hogan Lovells in Washington, D.C.. From July 2017 until May 2018 he was a member of the Trump administration legal team.
In December 2020, Cobb told Peter Nicholas of The Atlantic , "I believed then and now I worked for the country. I didnāt really have any difficulty with that. People's reactions were frequently hostile when they found out what I was doing. How hypocritical is it to think that the Democrats deserve the best people and Republicans donāt? I have served both. Itās the same country."
Ellis earned a shade over $160,000 in 2016 from his employment with the House. His assets are modest by Trump Administration standards ā just one account exceeds $15,000 ā and he still has somewhere between $20,000 and $30,000 in student loans, at rates ranging from 6.55% to 8.25%.
Michael Ellis, special assistant to the president and associate counsel, is also a 2001 2011 YLS grad ā and also reportedly involved in sharing intelligence files with Chairman Nunes. Prior to joining the White House, Ellis worked for Nunes, serving as general counsel to the House Intelligence Committee. Ellis also clerked for two feeder judges, Jeffrey Sutton and Amul Thapar (one of Trumpās SCOTUS finalists, as well as the presidentās first lower-court nominee, put up for elevation to the Sixth Circuit).
A 1992 graduate of NYU Law and former Fried Frank associate, Greenblatt is a longtime denizen of Trumpworld, having served as executive vice president and chief legal officer to Donald Trump and the Trump Organization. During the campaign, he advised candidate Trump on U.S.-Israel relations.
David Lat is the founder and managing editor of Above the Law and the author of Supreme Ambitions: A Novel. He previously worked as a federal prosecutor in Newark, New Jersey; a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; and a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. OāScannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. You can connect with David on Twitter (@DavidLat), LinkedIn, and Facebook, and you can reach him by email at dlat@abovethelaw.com.
Greg Katsas, deputy counsel to the president (and also a contender for Solicitor General ), is another Jones Day alum. And he seemed to fare quite well under its black box, per the NLJ:
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After being called out for knocking off popular 'Koreatown' merch ā the proceeds of which benefit local nonprofits ā the retailer did the right thing. But why now?
Net worth: $600 million. Ross spent 24 years at investment bank Rothschild, then broke out on his own in 2000, forming private equity shop WL Ross & Co. He hit the jackpot with a bet on American steel, benefitting from tariffs George W. Bush levied against foreign competitors.
W ant a stable government job? Donāt join Donald Trumpās cabinet. In just two and a half years, the president has replaced 12 of his 23 cabinet positionsāsome more than once. The current lineup includes 17 millionaires, 2 centimillionaires and 1 billionaire. Theyāre worth $3.2 billion in all, just a hair more than the president himself.
The former neurosurgeon joined the boards of Costco and Kellogg in the late 1990s, where he earned more than $5 million in compensation. He stepped down from both in 2015 to mount a brief run for president. He didnāt get that job, but Trump rewarded him with a cabinet position. Carson continues to earn thousands of dollars in royalties every year from books, including his memoir Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story. He owns homes in Maryland, Virginia and Palm Beach, Florida.
Since becoming Trumpās energy secretary, Perry has divested those conflict-prone assets. He still owes more than $50,000 on a 2002 student loan, likely related to one of his two kidsā educations.
When WWE cofounder Linda McMahon stepped down in April, Pilkerton took over as head of the Small Business Administration. A former compliance director at JPMorgan, Pilkerton is nowhere near as rich as the McMahons (who own a $2 billion stake in the publicly traded WWE). Pilkertonās most valuable asset is his Maryland home, worth around $735,000. He also disclosed owning more than $15,000 worth of Exxon stock.
Other Trump Cabinet members had more typical net-worths. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had an estimated net worth of $266,510 in 2016, while he was earning $185,100 in annual salary as CIA director.
Forbes reports that Perdue's relatively modest worth, tabulated after he joined the Cabinet, was significantly affected after he transferred between $11 million and $40 million worth of assets to his four children.
When it comes to all of her assets, the public disclosure form indicated DeVos raked in an income between $53,962,468 and $134,894,706 between January 2016 and Spring 2017.
Ross spent decades working with a bankruptcy advisory business before starting a private equity firm, WL Ross & Co., in 2000, which he later sold for around $375 million .
Though there have been a bevy of staff changes over the past two years, Trump's Cabinet has remained full of high earners.
In April of 2020, Forbes estimated Trumpās net worthāthat is, assets minus liabilitiesāat $2.1 billion. Thatās about $1 billion lower than their valuation at the beginning of the year.
Trumpās vast real estate empire includes approximately 500 residential units throughout the United States. While itās difficult to appraise those with precision, Forbes lowered its valuation of those units from $235 million to $148 million this spring, in part based on the lower stock price of publicly traded companies that operate in the same sector. 3 ļ»æ
The Trump Organization owns a number of exclusive golf properties, from Colts Head, N.J., to Dubai. 14 ļ»æ While players are still able to hit the links at most of those courses, the steep price of membership doesnāt make them recession-proof. Forbes puts their combined value at $217 million, down from $271 million prior to the coronavirus. 3 ļ»æ
Part of the challenge is that the sprawling enterprise that he still owns, The Trump Organization, is a private entity that isnāt required to publish financial statements as a publicly traded company would be. While NBC News reported in 2015 that Trump claimed in a press release that he was worth more than $10 billion, thatās widely regarded as more bravado than reality. 1 ļ»æ
Some of the presidentās exclusive clubs are holding up fairly well, despite an economy thatās hobbling along. āMar-a-Lago is valued more like a billionaireās trophy than an operating business, which seems to shield the impact of the current downturn,ā writes Dan Alexander of Forbes. 3 ļ»æ
Trump has notoriously refused to publish his tax returns, which makes determining his income very difficult, tax returns do not contain a person's net worth. 2 ļ»æļ»æļ»æļ»æ Former President Donald Trump completed the annual financial disclosure forms that presidents are required to submit through the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. 4 ļ»æļ»æļ»æļ»æ 5 ļ»æļ»æļ»æļ»æ
Trump's net worth, which was estimated to be at $2.33 billion in March by Bloomberg Billionaires Index, fell by almost $700 million in his final year as president, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Trump's fortune sank to $3.1 billion in his first year in office, then dropped to $2.5 billion in 2020.
While referencing public data, the story disputes whether the residence was indeed 30,000 square feet. While the Manhattan home is a "large mansion," it is "far smaller than what Trump claims to possess," according to Forbes. Trump's Aberdeenshire golf club in Scotland was also assessed at $435 million in 2014.