Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing, bonus story of the week.

Today on Forbes, these billionaire brothers have been pardon hunting, one donated to Trump's White House ballroom.

The list of billionaires and companies who have donated to help build a gigantic, gilded ballroom, where the east wing of the White House used to be,

has plenty of familiar names on it.

Amazon, Apple, Comcast, Miriam Adelson, the Winklevoss twins.

And then there's Stefan E. Brody.

Brody, it turns out, is one more billionaire.

He and his brother Donald co-founded Puralite,

a company that manufactures resins used for water purification across a range of industries.

The brothers later sold it to Chemicals Giant Ecolab in 2021 for $3.7 billion. When Steve Brody

showed up on the Trump Ballroom donor list, he raised his profile,

and now he and his brother are the newest members of the Forbes' billionaires list.

Assuming they own the company 50-50, they're each worth about $1.7 billion today, Forbes estimates.

The Brodies started Puralight in 1981 in Don's basement in Pennsylvania.

They found their niche, distributing high-end ion exchange resins, essentially specialized balls of

plastic used for water purification, drug manufacturing, pollution cleanup, and other processes.

Four years later, Purolite made the jump to manufacturing,

opening a converted factory in Ponticlean, South Wales, in the United Kingdom. In 1987, the Brodies

began manufacturing in Philadelphia as well, lost their factory to a fire a year later, then rebuilt

an even bigger facility as demand ramped

up.

The 1990s brought more plants in newly liberalized China and behind the collapsed iron curtain

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