The investment portfolio of the interim US Attorney for the Southern District of New York shows financial stakes in Epstein-associated financial institutions and Venezuelan oil interests. The Trump appointee stands to win big from his own investigations.
Jay Clayton, a top federal prosecutor leading investigations into sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, and major Wall Street banks, holds more than $1.6 million in investments in companies with a potential financial stake in those same matters, according to ethics disclosures reviewed by the Lever.
Clayton, President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Justice Department’s “top-dog” Southern District of New York office, owns stakes in multiple oil and gas companies that stand to benefit from Venezuela’s regime change, as well as in Wall Street banks and financial firms currently under investigation by Congress over their ties to Epstein.
The disclosures show Clayton has more than $1 million in financial holdings in private equity giant Apollo Global Management, where he served as board chairman until his Justice Department appointment.
“Jay Clayton has a very personal interest in seeing the Epstein story as a cabined-off story involving a mysterious ‘who could have ever known it’ villain, rather than the story of interconnected immoral elites it appears to be to impartial people,” said Jeff Hauser, executive director of the government watchdog group Revolving Door Project.
“That’s a really paralyzing bias to bring to the role of prosecutor,” Hauser added. “We should want professional skeptics to serve our prosecutors, not the credulous.”
Clayton, a former corporate attorney with no prosecutorial experience and…
Auteur: Freddy Brewster
