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WileECoyote Laurene Powell Jobs Ms. Powell Jobs has a net worth estimated at $11.5 billion, according to Bloomberg, most of it in shares of the Walt Disney Company. Mr. Jobs helped found the animation studio Pixar, which Disney acquired in 2006 and paid for in stock. With 131 million shares, worth about $8.7 billion, the Laurene Powell Jobs Trust is Disney’s largest shareholder with a 7.3 percent stake in the company, and she has benefited from the stock having more than doubled since her husband died in October 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/busines... |
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WileECoyote Largest Private Equity Firms, 2008 Good article in Bloomberg http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-12/... Of 4,500 firms with $3 trillion in assets, they expect a quarter to be "starved out" over the next five years... |
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WileECoyote The Goldman Sachs Diaspora Should say the list came directly from the NYTimes article Kevin posted! |
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WileECoyote The Goldman Sachs Diaspora Created a list compiling the 221 executives who controlled Goldman at the time of the 1999 IPO. So they are now all on the database, but I welcome help in building out all the profiles! |
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Bridgespan Group "Teaching Rich People Not to Suck at Charity Donations" "Selfish philanthropy isn't necessarily a bad thing — as long as the money actually gets results. " http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/11/teac... |
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William R Wilkerson On November 25, 1947 Wilkerson and the Hollywood Reporter named the "Hollywood Ten" - initiating the blacklist. This week his son issued a formal apology - http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bla... |
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Michael E Tennenbaum Michael Tennenbaum, philanthropist and senior managing partner of Los Angeles-based Tennenbaum Capital Partners, and his wife, Suzanne, have given $10 million to launch a long-term project to study coastal marine biodiversity and global ecosystems, the Smithsonian Institution announced Thursday. (10/25/12) http://goo.gl/ssCwK |
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Sam Rawlings WaltonPriorities USA Action, the super-PAC supporting President Barack Obama, incorrectly told the Federal Election Commission that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Chairman Samuel Robson Walton, better known as Rob, was a $300,000 donor to the group last month. In an amended FEC filing, the super-PAC said it was Walton’s son, Samuel Rawlings Walton, who actually cut the check. The younger Walton, grandson of the Wal-Mart founder, sits on the board of the Environmental Defense Fund. http://go.bloomberg.com/political-capital... |
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Rex Sinquefield Since 2008, when Missouri abolished contribution limits, Mr. Sinquefield has donated more than $20 million to local candidates and political action committees. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/us/poli... |
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Lance Armstrong Consumers trust in Mr. Armstrong and his worthiness to be a pitchman has fallen significantly, according to Davie-Brown Entertainment, an Omnicom Group Inc.unit that tracks celebrities' appeal using online consumer polls. The research firm said that in June 2008, Mr. Armstrong was ranked as the 60th most effective product spokesperson, on par with folks such as swimmer Michael Phelpsand actor Brad Pitt, As of September 2012, Mr. Armstrong ranked 1,410th, putting him alongside rapper Nicky Minaj and actor Jeff Goldblum. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100008723... |
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WileECoyote Molly Munger has spent $30 million of her own money to support California Proposition 38, to raise taxes in support of K-12 education. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/20... |
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WileECoyote ADT Security ADT is an independent company again, now spun off from Tyco and list on the NYSE http://www.securitysystemsnews.com/articl... |
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WileECoyote John Donald Cody Supposedly ran a $100 million charity scam - and although that figure may be inflated, this is a fascinating story. Made political contributions through NAVPAC and a variety of false names including Richard Barstow, John A. Richmond, Joseph Allocco, John Acosta Devine, John Shiher, John R. Ochen, III, Troy Schanck, Frank Bisceglia, John J. Ocean, III, John Redfern, Dennis Reinhart, Richard Larsen, and Harry Walter Phillips. |
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Elaine Tettemer Marshall “Mrs. Marshall does not own any Koch stock in her name. The late E. Pierce Marshall and J. Howard Marshall II consistently stated that their family’s assets were vastly overvalued.” |
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The Giving Pledge signees More billionaire families join Buffett and Gates philanthropy effort http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2012... |
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Sun Myung Moon Exploring Reverend Moon’s empire is a lot like embarking on an archaeological dig—with the prospect of finding stuff that you’d never imagine and stuff that makes no sense at all. http://goo.gl/MO3wD |
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Russell R Wasendorf Sr "A US regulator has frozen the accounts of US futures brokerage Peregrine Financial Group (PFG) following the attempted suicide of its chairman. The National Futures Association said it was worried PFG did not have enough money to meet obligations to clients. Chairman Russell Wasendorf Sr was found in his car near its Iowa headquarters." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18779162 |
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Giving by U.S. foundations totaled an estimated $46.9 billion in 2011, surpassing the $46.8 billion pre-recession peak recorded in 2008. If the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation were excluded from the totals, 2011 giving would actually have gone down by roughly 3 percent after inflation. http://foundationcenter.org/media/news/20... |
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Dewey & Leboeuf LLP Some legal-industry experts say that, in many ways, the turmoil at Dewey reminds them of Finley Kumble, a large, fast-growing New York law firm that imploded in 1987. The causes of Finley Kumble failure – expanding too quickly, borrowing heavily, and paying dearly for high-profile talent – mirror the reasons for Dewey’s woes. Dewey’s bankruptcy follows a handful of other big law firm collapses in recent years. In 2008, two large San Francisco-based firms, Thelen and Heller Ehrman, imploded in part because of a business slowdown. Last year, Howrey, a Washington firm with more than 500 lawyers, disintegrated after running into financial difficulties. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/05/28/de... |
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WileECoyote Richard A Grenell An openly gay Republican operative hired as Mitt Romney's foreign policy spokesman has abruptly resigned from the campaign, suggesting the focus on his personal life had become a distraction. http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/openly... |
