From 2018 but relevant regarding Mattis

Mar 16, 2018, 9:00am EDT

James Mattis is linked to a massive corporate fraud and nobody wants to talk about it

https://www.vox.com/2018/3/16/17124288/mattis-theranos-board-trump

Secretary of Defense James Mattis is implicated in one of the largest business scandals of the past decades, described by the Securities and Exchange Commission as an “elaborate, years-long fraud”…

Mattis not only served on Theranos’s board during some of the years it was perpetrating the fraud after he retired from US military service, but he earlier served as a key advocate of putting the company’s technology (technology that was, to be clear, fake) to use inside the military while he was still serving as a general…

Nobody on the board is being directly charged with doing anything. But accepting six-figure checks to serve as a frontman for a con operation is the kind of thing that would normally count as a liability in American politics….

James Mattis profited off helping Theranos perpetrate a fraud…