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The Ledger / Pauline MacMillan Keinath

Pauline MacMillan Keinath

Net worth unknownConsumer StaplesForbes #443US

◼ Origin

Inherited her stake in Cargill, the world's largest private company by revenue, as a great-granddaughter of co-owner John MacMillan Sr.; the family has owned Cargill since 1865.

◼ Self-Made Verdict — INHERITED

Holds Cargill stake as fifth-generation family heir; did not found or build the business.

◼ Documented marks

01

Holds a Cargill family ownership stake as a fifth-generation heir; Cargill is the largest private company in the US by revenue ($177B+), trading a third of the world's grain.

02

Cargill has faced repeated environmental and labor enforcement actions: Clean Water Act violations (pork and beef supply chains), worker injuries at processing plants, and deforestation-linked supply chains in the Amazon and Indonesia.

03

As a passive owner, MacMillan Keinath receives dividends from Cargill's operations without public accountability or regulatory disclosure requirements that publicly traded peers face.

No inheritance, or primary accounts documented for this billionaire yet.

◼ List of charges

No documented charges yet.

These are moral charges, not legal ones. The actual legal system has not — and will not — bring them.