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douglas9

(4,900 posts)
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 07:33 AM Jun 24

Stephen Miller's Financial Stake in ICE Contractor Palantir Raises Conflict Concerns

POGO report shows top Trump adviser owned six-figure stock in company profiting off deportations.

WASHINGTON — Stephen Miller, the influential Trump administration aide behind its hardline immigration policies, holds a substantial financial stake in Palantir Technologies — a key tech contractor for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — raising new ethics questions, according to a report published Tuesday by the Project on Government Oversight.

Miller, who served as President Donald Trump’s senior advisor on immigration and homeland security, disclosed owning between $100,001 and $250,000 of Palantir stock as of mid-March, according to financial disclosure forms obtained by the watchdog group. Ethics experts told POGO that Miller’s dual role crafting enforcement policy and investing in Palantir, which provides “mission-critical” data services for ICE, could amount to a troubling conflict of interest.

“Given Miller’s deep involvement in ICE policy and operations, this is more than just a bad look — it could easily become a serious ethics issue,” Don Fox, former acting head of the Office of Government Ethics, told POGO. “You don’t want to be in a position to say, ‘Mr. President, I can’t work on that because I have a conflict.’”

https://migrantinsider.com/p/stephen-miller-palantir

https://www.axios.com/local/denver/2025/05/01/palantir-deportations-ice-immigration-trump

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Chasstev365

(5,715 posts)
1. Oh please, no rules or laws apply because the Republican Party is a corrupt criminal organization
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 07:38 AM
Jun 24

Attilatheblond

(6,643 posts)
5. And when profit depends on warm bodies thrown into detention facilties, with no proof of criminal activity,
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 09:54 AM
Jun 24

it's HUMAN TRAFFICKING.

Bettie

(18,565 posts)
4. Dig more than an inch deep
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 08:44 AM
Jun 24

and I suspect we'd find that ALL of them are profiting off of, well, everything they are doing.

From the article:
“Given Miller’s deep involvement in ICE policy and operations, this is more than just a bad look — it could easily become a serious ethics issue,” Don Fox, former acting head of the Office of Government Ethics, told POGO. “You don’t want to be in a position to say, ‘Mr. President, I can’t work on that because I have a conflict.’”

See, none of them would ever say they have a conflict, because they don't believe that ethics are a thing. I'd laugh, but it isn't even a little bit funny.

Paladin

(31,013 posts)
6. Yeah, as if "conflict concerns" matter in the very least to this corrupt regime.
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 10:01 AM
Jun 24

"Serious ethics issue" my ass. Have fun counting your grift money, Pee-Wee German...

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