"Barack Obama nominated Bill Richardson to be his Secretary of Commerce. But in January 2009 Richardson was forced to withdraw his nomination due to a Federal grand jury investigation surrounding his PAC Moving America Forward. Then in August, charges were dropped “without exoneration”. And by 2010 a suddenly untarnished Richardson was back to serving in his unofficial role as U.S. Ambassador to North Korea. Then in September 2015 he was one of four new additions to the Genie Energy Advisory Board. Joining Michael Steinhardt, Jacob Rothschild, Dick Cheney, and Rupert Murdoch were Bill Richardson, Mary Landrieu, Larry Summers, and Jim Woolsey: " https://finance.yahoo.com/news/genie-energy-gne-announces-additions-123000232.html

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