Todd Ricketts withdraws nomination for Commerce post




Todd Ricketts has withdrawn his nomination to be deputy commerce secretary,

the

Wall Street Journal

reported.

President Trump had nominated Ricketts for the post late last year.

Ricketts' family owns the Chicago Cubs baseball team. His father, Joe Ricketts, had been a major donor to Trump's presidential campaign, the article said.

Todd Ricketts “had been prepared to divest himself of his own financial portfolio,” the

Journal

article said. But the Office of Government Ethics told him that the whole Ricketts family would have to divest in order for him to fully comply with ethics rules, the report said.

A spokesman for Ricketts told the

Journal

that he wouldn't be able to serve because “the scope of issues that face the Department of Commerce is very broad and these issues potentially could touch many of Mr. Ricketts's family's current financial interests.” (Source:

Wall Street Journal

, April 20, 2017.)

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