Ryan Zinke Now Works for Blockchain Kingpin With a Shady Past
On April 20, 2018, Ryan Zinke was returning to Washington from an environmental conference in Texas. During the first leg of the trip, on a flight from Dallas to Atlanta, the then-Interior Secretary had an auspicious seatmate, an investor with a checkered legal past and a new company focused on blockchain technology.
The seatmate was Daniel P. Cannon. Over the course of the flight, Cannon said, “business was not discussed.” Instead, the two talked about “how U.S. soldiers dying for foreign oil was unacceptable to the president.”
Whatever was said must have impressed Zinke. Less than a year later—just weeks after he left the Interior Department—he joined Cannon’s company.