Re: and 'The right answer' is ...
Sort of like how the Saudis gave Jared Kushner $2 billion to manage even though he has no experience as a fund manager?
Nope, not really-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Kushner#Business_career
Following his father's conviction and subsequent incarceration between March 4, 2005, and August 25, 2006, Kushner took a much bigger role in the family real estate business.[22] He set about expanding the business and acquired almost $7 billion in property over the next ten years, much of it in New York City.
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Kushner#Conflicts_of_interest
After his appointment as Senior Advisor to Donald Trump (in January 2017), Kushner resigned as head of his family's real-estate firm, Kushner Companies, and partially divested himself of some of its assets, including all his stake in Thrive Capital, a venture capital firm co-founded by his brother, all common stock holdings and over 35 other investments, and his stake in 666 Fifth Avenue.
Thrive is interesting given they were a big investor in OpenAI. But then Hunter also took money from China, Romania, Russia, and of course Burisma.. Which was probably the shadiest given the antics of this chap-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Zlochevsky
Zlochevsky was accused of having illegally issued, while he was Ecology Minister in 2010–2012, oil and gas licenses to the companies that belonged to him... On 1 August 2023 the High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine convicted, after 2.5 years of trial, Zlochevsky to a fine of four thousand tax-free minimum incomes, equivalent to 68,000 Ukrainian Hryvnia's. This case was started in 2020 and was about the "record bribe" of $6 million given for closing a criminal case against Burisma he had offered to (then) SAP head..
And of course Burisma was ultimately controlled by this chap-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi#Relationship_with_Volodymyr_Zelenskyy
Who created a novel form of banking via his Privat Bank, bankrolled Zelensky and then had a bit of a falling out. But it's one of those things where any sensible person would have done a bit of due diligence and run far, far away from any board appointments. But not Hunter, (in)famously described by Papa Joe as the smartest man he knew. Which didn't say much about the other people Biden appointed as advisors.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
