Shares of a cannabis company make up nearly half of a $2.5 million blind trust portfolio established for Maryland Gov. Wes Moore. (AP File Photo/Brian Witte) Shares in a cannabis company comprise ...

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While bills to repeal Florida’s blind trust laws move through the state Legislature, Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried quietly became the second statewide officer to have a blind trust ...

Trusts can be used to hold assets for a beneficiary, and you may hear about them when carrying out estate planning or evaluating strategies to pass investments to heirs. One type of trust, called a ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore's administration announced Monday he has formally created a blind trust for his assets, which include nearly $1.2 million in shares of stock in a cannabis ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Rick Scott had been governor of Florida for barely three months when questions first mounted about conflicts of interest. Fabulously wealthy but a newcomer to politics, Scott ...

WASHINGTON — Georgia U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff has moved his liquid assets into a qualified blind trust, making good on a campaign promise that relates to criticism of his predecessor. Ossoff notified the ...

Members and experts raised doubts Thursday about the effectiveness and practicality of placing lawmaker assets in qualified blind trusts as the House Administration Committee mulled possible reforms ...

Shortly after Rick Caruso announced his run for mayor in February, he promised to give up day-to-day leadership of his company and put his holdings into a blind trust to head off potential conflicts ...

Let the local campaign rodeo begin. It is the season of fun for the observer, because no one does politics better than the people of Hamilton County. At the same time, political campaigns can be ...

Trump—who canceled a scheduled December 15 press conference where he was supposed to explain how he was going to deal with conflicts of interest as president—is considering a “discretionary trust” to ...

In Sen. Joe Manchin III’s hilly West Virginia home county, his family’s business has made millions by taking waste coal from long-abandoned mines and selling it to a power plant that emits air ...