Ryan Zinke's New Job - Working For A Cryptocurrency Company About Which Nearly Nothing Is Known

Fitting enough . .

Former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has quickly found new work as a senior vice president for the blockchain investment firm Artillery One. Zinke, who in the past has touted his bachelor’s degree in geology, will be making his first appearance for the firm at a cryptocurrency conference in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Described as “the world’s most exclusive investor conference on cryptocurrencies and blockchain investments,” the three-day event beginning on January 16 is held at Suvretta House; the event page says the five-star venue is “like a fairy-tale castle.”

Zinke’s last day as head of the Interior Department was just two weeks ago. He announced his resignation in December amid multiple ethics investigations as well as a Justice Department probe into whether Zinke lied to agency investigators. But as Artillery One’s chief executive Daniel Cannon told ThinkProgress, he does not expect these investigations to impact Zinke’s work for the blockchain investment firm. “We are not concerned with these investigations as they do not involve A1 [Artillery One],” Cannon wrote via email. “We will let the DOJ do its job and act accordingly.”

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Artillery One has virtually no online presence. A Facebook and Twitter account do exist for the company’s blockchain summit but the summit’s website appears to no longer work. Cannon directed ThinkProgress to its website, artilleryone.com, which links to a Dropbox file promotional video explaining the company’s goals. Artillery One was incorporated on November 3, 2017 with 10 million shares at its disposal to authorize (although the value of each share is unclear) and, in October 2018, it registered a venture fund. Its listed address is a post office box in North Carolina.

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https://thinkprogress.org/ryan-zinke-interior-new-job-75b565a010bb/