Mitt Romney did this as well (although only to the tune of $100M). It was discussed in 2012 in various news outlets: https://www.investopedia.com/managing-wealth/grow-ira-100-mi...
With him sometimes Bain Capital made separate share classes, and I think they would give massive dividends periodically to the separate share class that only the 401k investors at Bain Capital would receive. I think its a really great strategy!
Buffett should be doing that in Berkshire Hathaway for their employees instead of being sad about how much tax his secretary pays
Roth versions of tax deferred accounts only exists because the government is an irresponsible spender and needed revenues. It made the contract with the people because its like a degenerate crack addict child scrounging for cash, in its case only to keep convincing international investors that it can slowly pay debt. Wow the contract worked and you just caught on 22 years later.
What is your issue with people making good trades in a tax deferred and tax exempt accounts? That it needs more revenues again? The government will be fine, international investors are content with its revenue sources. These kinds of accounts are already subject to massive penalties and even UBTI regulations
> That January, The Wall Street Journal reported that Mitt Romney, the former private equity executive running for the GOP nomination, had listed on a financial disclosure form that he had amassed an IRA worth between $20 million and $102 million. The story ran on the front page and launched waves of coverage in other publications. Romney had a traditional IRA, not a Roth. But how, people wondered, could the account have grown so large, given that the government imposed strict limits on how much money could be put into one of the tax-deferred accounts?
> Citing former company insiders and documents, the Journal reported that during Romney’s time as CEO at investment giant Bain Capital, executives there had effectively bypassed the contribution limits by putting extremely low-valued shares from private equity deals into their IRAs, then watching them balloon.