Though by the ripe age of 79, Wilbur Ross had (seemingly) amassed a fortune large enough to leave most people content to never work again, when Donald Trump tapped the former Wall Street heavyweight to be his commerce secretary, Ross jumped at the chance. His new Cabinet job meant he was not just rich, but also powerful. And given his persona as a velvet-slipper-wearing, Wall Street fraternity-chairing out-of-touch plutocrat who has previously suggested that the unwashed masses quit their bitching about income inequality and leave the the 1 percent alone, the prospect of power was surely appealing. Unfortunately for Ross, the transition to public servant has not gone quite as smoothly as he would have hoped.

After a few pleasant months in which he got to tag along with the president to Saudi Arabia; enjoyed the “after-dinner entertainment” of bombing Syria; and came up with an idea to throw a cocktail party to convince high-school students to work in factories, Ross’s time in the sun was brought to a screeching halt last week when it emerged that 1) he had failed to disclose [an investment in a Russian shipping company linked to a guy named Vladimir Putin, and 2) he may have been lying about his net worth for more than a decade. While the former detail would give most people the greatest cause for concern, the latter has assuredly cost the “King of Bankruptcy” more sleepless nights. As the days wear on the situation has only worsened, with Bloomberg having the audacity to run a story entitled, “We’re Cutting Our Calculation of Wilbur Ross’s Net Worth to $860 Million.” And the fun hasn’t stopped there—on Wednesday, the secretary of the Commerce Department was accused by several of his former colleagues of cheating them out of millions.

Forbes’s Dan Alexander, who broke the news that Ross is not actually a billionaire, reports that a trio of Ross’s ex-longtime colleagues at his private equity shop, WL Ross & Co., have sued the secretary and the firm for allegedly charging at least $48 million in improper management fees and pocketing the money. According to David Storper, David Wax, and Pamela Wilson, as general partners they were required to make “significant investments in return for rights to a share of the profits and other gains” in entities formed to handle equity funds. Ross and his namesake company, they contend, “‘blatantly violated’ their obligations to make sure the entities received the appropriate benefits, charged them millions in fees at rates that exceeded what they could charge investors, took the fees for themselves, and completely concealed their conduct.”

All told, not a great look! In addition to the most recent suit, which was filed not by low-level employees but by the company’s former No. 2, (Storper), its former No. 3 (Wax), and a former senior vice president (Wilson), Ross has been in litigation with Storper since 2015, with Storper alleging the commerce secretary “stole his interests after he left the firm.” (Ross has denied the allegations.) There’s also a suit by Joseph Mullin a former executive who alleged in January that Ross “wrongfully seized $3.6 million belonging to him.” Neither the Commerce Department nor WL Ross & Co., now owned by Invesco, returned the Hive’s requests for comment.

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