Former ExxonMobil executive Rex Tillerson appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)Secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson faced several questions on Wednesday about his tenure as chief executive of ExxonMobil — and several times, Tillerson said that he couldn’t recall certain details of his four decades of work. On Thursday, the company asserted that its transactions with those countries were modest in size and did not violate sanctions law. The question would have to go to ExxonMobil for them to be able to answer that,” Tillerson told Menendez. In 2010, the SEC again asked ExxonMobil about transactions with those countries as well as Cuba.

Source: Washington Post January 12, 2017 17:21 UTC