Father of Trump deputy treasury pick at center of family dispute
James Donovan, a Goldman Sachs banker, is about to take the hot seat as President Trump’s nominee to the number two job at the Treasury Department.
But for more than a decade, the nominee to be deputy treasury secretary has been tackling one of his biggest challenges closer to home: his own father.
The 50-year-old North Shore native, along with his siblings, has been embroiled in a long-running dispute with their father, John Donovan Sr., that involved allegations of attempted murder, a frame-up, and a battle over millions of dollars and acres of waterfront property.
Donovan, who now lives in Virginia, is a reluctant participant in a family drama that has unfolded in courtrooms across Massachusetts and newspaper headlines nationwide.
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