Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Thursday, March 20th. Today on Forbes, how Pam Bondi got rich

in just six years out of office. At her confirmation hearing to become attorney general in January,

Pam Bondi presented herself as a lifelong public servant. The 59-year-old told the assembled senators, quote,

from the moment I began to work as an intern at the Hillsborough County State Attorney's Office,

I knew I wanted to spend my life as a prosecutor. She walked them through her time going after

Tampa criminals, first as the prosecutor, and then as the Florida Attorney General, a job she left after two

terms in 2018.

All that experience no doubt built up her skills as a lawyer.

The six years of her life she left out of her timeline, though, 2019 through 2024, built

up her bank account.

In her final year as Florida's top legal official,

Bondi declared a net worth of over $1.5 million, almost all of which was her Tampa home,

plus one-third of a small condo she splits with her siblings, and quote, household goods and

personal effects. She had just $4,025 in her checking account.

Today, Forbes estimates that she's worth at least $5 million, and likely more.

How did she do it?

First, she started working as a lobbyist for Florida-based Ballard Partners.

According to a database maintained by the Political Transparency Group, Open Secrets, big names like General Motors, Carnival, and Major League Baseball, plus 13 other clients, like Geo Group,

which invests in private prisons, hired her in 2019, presumably hoping to leverage her close

relations to Donald Trump's first administration. The nation of Qatar

also hired her that year. In 2020, her client list included prominent companies like Amazon,

Fidelity, and Uber. Between 2023 and 2024, according to her most recent federal disclosure,

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