Birds of a feather and all that. Steven Mnuchin, in addition to scamming the FDIC of a billion dollars to foreclose on 36,000 middle class homeowners, former partner at Goldman Sachs, manager of his own hedge fund and movied producer, is the perfect choice for Donald Trump’s cabinet. He has something in common with his future boss — a man being sued for defrauding investors as part of a movie financing deal.
Wall Street investor and Hollywood producer Steven Mnuchin, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for treasury secretary, is likely to find his Senate confirmation process a bit stickier than he had hoped.
One of the more controversial deals in his recent past is about to be rehashed in the courts, sources tell The Post.
RKA Film Financing, which had lent $75 million to Relativity Media, one of Tinseltown’s mini-major studios and the producer of “Masterminds,” will soon file an amended complaint in Manhattan state court against Mnuchin and others, alleging it was ripped off in a 2015 financing deal.
State Supreme Court Justice Charles Ramos on Nov. 3 dismissed an earlier RKA suit over the same allegations but allowed the company to refile the allegations if they were more properly constructed.
RKA’s new complaint will allege fraud as opposed to the prior breach-of-contract allegation, the source said.
Obviously with the name Ramos this judge should immediately be dismissed from this case.