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former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage
Richard Armitage
State; Deputy Secretary
a former Assistant Secretary of Defense and Ambassador to the Newly Independent States after the fall of the Soviet Union, in recent years Armitage has combined a lucrative consulting business - through his firm, Armitage Associates - with seats in many prominent corporate boardrooms, including
Chase Manhattan. Armitage also owns Rubaiyat Trading, a business entity created to own a Cessna Citation private aircraft valued at somewhere between $1 million and $5 million. He also has stakes in partnerships involved in everything from publishing to commercial real estate, and has personally invested millions in companies such as