Trump adds another billionaire to his team again!!!

President-elect Donald Trump's band  wagon of billionaires keeps growing.

The latest addition to his team of ultra-rich administration officials is
 Vincent Viola, a New York businessman and NHL owner who was
announced Monday as Trump's pick for secretary of the Army.

The civilian post serves under the defense secretary and is subject to
 Senate confirmation.

Viola's military bona fides include a degree from West Point and service
 as an infantry officer in the 101st Airborne Division. He joined the U.S.
Army Reserve after active duty.

Viola was born in Brooklyn and started his career in finance as a trader
on the New York Mercantile Exchange, in downtown Manhattan.
He became its chairman months before the September 11 terrorist attacks
and navigated it through the aftermath.

He later founded a series of companies -- most notably the multimillion
-dollar high-frequency trading firm Virtu Financial.

High-frequency trading, in which traders use computer algorithms to take advantage of fractions of a second in stock fluctuations, came under attack
 in the 2014 book "Flash Boys." 

The book caused a furor on Wall Street and was said to have delayed
 Virtu's initial public offering by a year. The company went public in April
2015.

If Trump's picks are confirmed, Viola will join an administration stacked
 with other billionaires, including Wilbur Ross, a debt investor tapped for commerce secretary, and Betsy DeVos, who is married to an heir to the
Amway fortune and would run the Education Department. Todd Ricketts,
part of the billionaire family that owns the Chicago Cubs, is Trump's choice
 for deputy commerce secretary.

Unlike the president, these top administration officials are required to address
any conflicts that their finances may pose to their government duties. Federal
law says they must get rid of any problematic holdings or otherwise recuse themselves from certain matters.

Viola spent much of the past decade as a near-neighbor to his new boss
 and appears to have shared the same taste for gilded furnishings.

Viola's 20,000-square-foot Manhattan townhouse, a dozen blocks
 north of Trump Tower, went on the market for $114 million in 2013,
 according to Variety, which described the 19-room home as "luridly lavish"
and "turgidly ornamented and giddily gaudy in its unrestrained grandiosity."

The price was lowered to $98 million in 2014 before the property was
 reportedly pulled from the market. Viola did not immediately return a
message from CNNMoney.

In 2013, Viola bought the NHL's Florida Panthers for $160 million,
 according to Forbes. The team tweeted its congratulations Monday morning, noting that the Panthers had made the playoffs under
 his ownership last season. They lost in the first round to the
 New York Islanders.

source:CNN