Big Ag Firm Sold Land to Sonny Purdue at Big Discount

Agricultural company Archer-Daniels-Midland sold a grain storage plant worth millions for just $250,000 to Sonny Perdue weeks after President Donald Trump selected him to be agriculture secretary, the Washington Post reports.

“The timing of the sale just as Perdue was about to become the most powerful man in U.S. agriculture raises legal and ethics concerns, from the narrow question of whether the secretary followed federal financial disclosure requirements to whether the transaction could have been an attempt to influence an incoming government official, in violation of bribery statutes, ethics lawyers say.”