Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, also known as the resident Trump administration footstool, has not had a great week. On Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that, according to an I.R.S. draft memo, he’s in violation of the law by not turning over Trump’s tax returns. Several days prior, we learned that his father is brought to literal tears at the thought of him working for Donald Trump. And on Thursday, he found himself in the crosshairs of Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who are demanding he cough up some answers re: allegedly helping his college roommate pocket billions while bankrupting a company that once employed thousands of Americans.

In a letter addressed to Mnuchin—helpfully accompanied by an explainer video—the congresswomen write that they are “deeply concerned by the financial engineering and potentially illegal activity” that took place at Sears while Mnuchin was a board member, and which led to tens of thousands of jobs being lost. Last month, Mnuchin was named in a lawsuit filed by Sears’ holding company accusing its former chairman, hedge-fund manager Eddie Lampert, of a “multiyear and multifaceted scheme” to siphon more than $2 billion from the company’s coffers to himself, his hedge fund E.S.L. Investments, and other insiders. Mnuchin, along with other former board members, is accused of approving deals that the suit argues ultimately benefited Lampert, whom the secretary roomed with at Yale, worked alongside at Goldman Sachs, and who Lampert named a vice chairman of his fund—in which Mnuchin was an investor—from 2002 to 2003. Warren and A.O.C. quote the suit’s claim that Lampert, Mnuchin, and the other defendants had zero plan to return the company to profitability after “cannibalizing [its] core assets,” that they “breached their fiduciary duties by engaging in . . . self-dealing,” and that “had Defendants not taken these improper and illegal actions, Sears would have had billions of dollars more to pay its third-party creditors today and would not have endured the amount of disruption, expense, and job losses resulting from its recent bankruptcy filing.”

Warren and Ocasio-Cortez—who describe Mnuchin in their video as “a walking example of what happens when rich and powerful people put other rich and powerful people into power”—note that they are concerned the secretary is in a position “to take actions that benefit Sears’ shareholders and owners at the expense of workers and taxpayers.” They demand to know, among other things, whether Mnuchin was involved in any discussions about Sears’ pension plans as a board member of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, the federal agency that oversees private pension plans.

A Treasury spokesperson did not respond to Politico’s request for comment. In addition to serving as a board member at Sears, Mnuchin’s past professional life included several years as the “Foreclosure King of California,” a nickname he’d prefer people not use, but one that’s well-earned considering his time at mortgage lender OneWest coincided with kicking 36,000 homeowners out of their houses.

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