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Editorial: Gavin Newsom has a conflict of interest problem

California Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom's family wine and hospitality business, the PlumpJack Group, is not in the same league as the billion-dollar Trump Organization, whose brand encompasses hotels, resorts and golf courses around the world.

All the same, PlumpJack is a healthy multimillion-dollar enterprise with some 800 employees at 23 properties around the state - wineries, restaurants, hotels and retail stores - that has made Newsom and his family wealthy. And his partial ownership of the company raises the

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