How Rick Perry became a millionaire

How Rick Perry became a millionaire

Rick Perry is a millionaire. Nothing odd about that — lots of people who run for president are millionaires! — but he’s never really had a job outside of government and he didn’t inherit his fortune. Where did his millions of dollars come from? The Fort Worth Star-Telegram answers that question: He’s very good at making investments that look remarkably like examples of blatant corruption.

There was the time Perry bought some random undeveloped land in 1993, and then it turned out that rich businessman Michael Dell needed that land to connect his new house to the sewer lines. Perry made $342,994 selling it to him. And he’s made decent sums trading in stock in companies founded by Perry donors. And there was this bit:

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