Carl Icahn Has Resigned as Special Adviser to President Trump

It’s been a tough week for President Donald Trump. He not only fired his chief strategist Stephen Bannon, but also disbanded two major business advisory groups this week.

On Friday the news continued to get worse as billionaire investor Carl Icahn ended his role as special advisor to Trump.

“I chose to end this arrangement (with your blessing) because I did not want partisan bickering about my role to in any way cloud your administration,” Icahn wrote in a letter to Trump that was also released on his website.

In his letter to Trump, he also pointed out, “I never had access to nonpublic information or profited from my position.”

According to a story in The New Yorker, Icahn made efforts to change a policy that hurt a company he is invested in.

“He’s walking right into possible criminal charges,” said Richard Painter, a Bush administration ethics lawyer, to Patrick Radden Keefe.

According to Keefe, Icahn could be in “legal jeopardy.”

Icahn’s lawyer told Keefe, “Unlike a government employee, Mr. Icahn has no official role or duties and he is not in a position to set policy.”