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Al's Secret Admirers
This story looks into irregularities and violations in Al Sharpton's campaign finances. Sharpton set up a meeting between two fund-raisers and a New York city official to arrange investments; Sharpton was caught on tape by the FBI for soliciting $25,000 from the fund-raisers. The story showed that Sharpton wound up on of the men's corporate payroll with a $25,000 salary. It also found reported donations that appear to never have occurred.
Tags: campaign finance; Federal Election Commission; Al Sharpton; corruption; hedge funds
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Cerberus: What's Bigger than Cisco, Coke or McDonald's
Hedge funds are buying many major American companies. Hedge funds are very secretive and refuse to release much information about their management teams or investments. But, this investigation took on the challenge of exposing the world's most secretive and voracious hedge fund acquirer of companies: Cerberus Capital Management.
Tags: corporation; corporate takeovers; business ethics; finance economy; hedge funds; Cerberus Capital Management
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All Bets Are Off: How the Salesmanship And Brainpower Failed At Long-Term Capital
The Journal tells the story of Long-term Capital Management LP, an institutional investor with 25 PhDs on its payroll, whose largest bets failed in one single day. The company lost more than 90 percent of its assets before it was bailed out by large Wall Street banks. What happened "forced many of the world's institutional investors to redefine the ways they manage risk and triggered calls for tougher regulation of hedge funds, those freewheeling investment funds that cater to the wealthy."
Tags: investors; bond market; securities; business; corporations; banking
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The Fallen Financier
Ken Lipper wanted to be a big wheel in Hollywood and New York. But he may be remembered most for the collapse of his hedge fund empire--and losses for the rich and famous.
Tags: Ken Lipper; financier; hedge funds; Lipper & Co.; SEC; FBI
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The Money Trail
The Wall Street Journal looked at donors who contributed the maximum of $5,000 to Sen. Trent Lott's GOP PAC to see who donotes the big money in politics and why they do it.
Tags: campaign finance; politics; PACs; hedge funds; SEC
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Stadium Naples (2000)
"This entry builds on 3 1/2 years of coverage about a web of corrupt dealings involving county commissioners, a defunct golf stadium development, county grants, the PGA Tour, a boiler room stock house and our local state attorney. ... In 2000, Barron's magazine raised questions about the investment claims of David Mobley, a hedge fund manager and Stadium Naples original primary financier. We added to the coverage by confirming that Mobley's trading records had been seized, within weeks he confesed cheating investors out of $60 million to federal regulators." FOIA material used for this report is also included. Also please go through file #16064, and #15021for the complete set of stories.
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Hedge Funds Are Hot Again
Business Week; through a cover story and a handful of sidebars; looks at the risks and pluses of hedge funds. "Hedge funds; private pools of capital limited in most cases by law to no more than 100 investors; are no longer the exclusive stomping grounds of the rich and famous. The not-so-wealthy are getting into the game; too."
Tags: Capital management; Hedge funds; Economics