Through utter mismanagement  engineer a paper(?) loss so you can create  a nice tax shelter for your own money. Now that's what I call "creative destruction", a corporate raiders dream. He sure is one smart cookie and just the guy to fix what's broke because deep down a he's a real swell guy who just wants to do good for the country. 

“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.” -H.L. Mencken