https://migrantinsider.com/p/stephen-miller-palantir
POGO report shows top Trump adviser owned six-figure stock in company profiting off deportations.
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.’”
Virginia Canter, chief counsel for ethics and anticorruption at Democracy Defenders Fund and a former federal attorney, added that Miller appeared to be “just on the verge” of breaking ethics rules.
Palantir’s ICE contract and political connections have long been controversial. The company’s tools have enabled ICE agents to identify, detain and deport people, including through recent enhancements that give officers near-real-time data on self-deportations. Meanwhile, Palantir stock has surged more than 80% this year, making it one of the top performers on the S&P 500.
Miller’s disclosure also revealed that the Palantir stock is held in one of his children’s brokerage accounts, but federal ethics rules apply the same legal standards to assets owned by spouses or minor children.
In a statement to POGO, the White House defended Miller’s disclosures and said he will continue to recuse himself from decisions that could directly impact his personal investments. Palantir did not respond to POGO’s request for comment.
The report follows a pattern of Trump appointees and allies with financial interests in Palantir. POGO previously documented that at least 10 other current or former White House and Department of Homeland Security staffers also owned stock in the company. Four Trump appointees at DHS have reported owning Palantir shares, including Paul Ingrassia, White House liaison to DHS, who was recently nominated to lead the U.S. Office of Special Counsel.
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This would indeed be a problem for an Adminstration that gave a shit about ethics. Unfortunately this entire administration copuld murder someone on 5th avenue in broad daylight and claim they had every right to do that; and SCROTUS would go right along.
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Hi Bruce. You are correct sadly. The 6 republican court members has been said to stop caring what the law says, instead working to craft ways to make the law reach the goal they want.
Look at the Kennedy case of the coach praying on the football field after games. The conservatives ignored all the evidence in the case to base an opinion on a fictitious event that did not happen. They claimed the man prayed by himself in private instead of leading public prayers on the field with groups of people. To the point where in her descent Justice Sonia Sotomayor used pictures of the real event to show what the man had done. But the court ruled it was discrimination to prevent him from “private” prayer in which his students might want to join him. No coercion of teenagers making his students pray with him. Of course we know if the man had been a Muslim instead of a Christian how the case would have gone. Hugs
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