> These dealings are just a tiny portion of Cantor’s business, which stretches from investment banking and trading to real estate

So an even larger attack surface for corruption in Mr. Lutnick's Cabinet role.

> The Commerce Secretary has a background and experience in financial services; that sounds like a good thing compared to some of the other current adminstration qualifications.

"Financial services" and commerce, writ large, are not the same thing.

The NYT may well be chasing clicks through its creative use of typography. But the defense of a genuinely offensive and quite possibly corrupt individual like Howard Lutnick isn't a hill I'd prefer to die on.