Sentences with phrase «company in a blind trust»

But Ford stressed it would bring him no advantage because he plans to put the company in a blind trust, a step meant to avoid conflicts of interests when business leaders are elected to office.

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But White House ethics lawyers in both parties have criticized that, noting that having his children run the company means it would be neither blind nor a trust.

He promised last week to sell all of his roughly one million shares in the company and place all his other substantial assets in a blind trust — a step he says the ethics commissioner told him in 2015 would not be necessary.

Home inspectors, mortgage brokers and agents, home stagers, lawyers, appraisers, loan officers at banks and trust companies, surveyors, legal clerks, movers, renovators, window blind makers and everybody you can think of is in the blast of business that is set off when a real estate agent pulls the trigger on the sale of a home.

Trump will probably place the Trump Organization in a blind trust if he's elected, and his three grown children from his first marriage would run it, a spokeswoman for the company said in an e-mail.