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Backers for Contreras-Sweet, who ran the Small Business Administration under President Obama, include billionaire Ron Burkle and Dallas-based private equity firm Lantern Asset Management, according to people with knowledge of the talks who were not authorized to speak publicly .
Contreras-Sweet co-founded the private equity firm Fortius Holdings, which backed small Latino enterprises in California. She also founded ProAmerica Bank, catering to small and medium-size businesses in the Latino community.
originally posted by: IAMTAT
a reply to: Perfectenemy
They should design the library as a Pork Barrel.
I think this thing is big-time payback for Hussein's BIG Chicago backers and buddies at LOOP and Ariel.
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). These are repositories for preserving and making available the papers, records, collections and other historical materials of every President of the United States from Herbert Hoover (31st President, 1929-1933) to George W. Bush (43rd President, 2001-2009). In addition to the library services, museum exhibitions concerning the presidency are displayed.
Official fundraising for the Barack Obama Presidential Library and Museum began in January 2014; however President Obama has chosen to forego the traditional route and his Presidential Center will not be a part of NARA. The Obama Foundation will own and operate the museum, but will pay NARA to digitize unclassified records and release them to the public as they become available.[1]
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: PolyCottonBlend
We've been discovering that several times where you don't see an obvious connection in the husbands, there will be a connection with their wives.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: IAMTAT
www.latimes.com...
This was put up one hour ago.
Backers for Contreras-Sweet, who ran the Small Business Administration under President Obama, include billionaire Ron Burkle and Dallas-based private equity firm Lantern Asset Management, according to people with knowledge of the talks who were not authorized to speak publicly .
Some more tails to chase.
Could also go to Killer Content and Abigail Disney.
Also, Burkle ties back to the Weinsteins, so no wonder this bid is the frontrunner. It means that the company would not fall far from the tree.
Contreras-Sweet co-founded the private equity firm Fortius Holdings, which backed small Latino enterprises in California. She also founded ProAmerica Bank, catering to small and medium-size businesses in the Latino community.
There are some of Contreras-Sweet's ties.
So it looks like the company stays "in the family" with a female front with this deal.
Burkle has personally contributed millions of dollars to the Democratic Party and raised an estimated $100 million at celebrity-studded fundraising events he hosted for Democratic Party candidates at his Green Acres Estate in Beverly Hills, California.[36][37] Burkle has hosted fundraisers for Bill and Hillary Clinton,[36][38] John Kerry,[5] Cory Booker[6] and Terry McAuliffe,[39] as well as former Republican California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger,[8] among others.
In January 2011, he hosted a fundraiser to support efforts to overturn Proposition 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage.[40]
In 2004, Burkle helped finance the launch of Al Gore’s Current TV,[41] which was sold in January 2013 to Qatar-based cable-news channel Al Jazeera.[42]
During Bill Clinton’s presidency, Burkle was a key fundraiser and they became close friends.[7] In 2002, Burkle hired Clinton as a senior advisor on two Yucaipa domestic investment funds.[43] Clinton invested in a Yucaipa global fund focused on foreign companies.[43] In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, then-U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) expressed concern that such investments could be used by foreign governments as "instruments of foreign policy."[43]
In 2009 Bill Clinton ended his relationship with Yucaipa due to potential conflicts of interest.[7] Following “months” of negotiations, the two were not able to agree on a final payment for Clinton’s advisory services, estimated at up to $20 million, and Clinton “walked away” from the potential payout.[44][45]
In 2002, as New York has reported, Clinton recruited Epstein to make his plane available for a week-long anti-poverty and anti-AIDS tour of Africa with Kevin Spacey, Chris Tucker, billionaire creep Ron Burkle, Clinton confidant Gayle Smith (who now serves on Barack Obama's National Security Council), and others. The logs from that trip show that Maxwell, Kellen, and a woman named Chauntae Davis joined the entourage for five days.
originally posted by: Skyfloating
80% of Lions Gates highest grossing films have children as their main cast (Hunger Games, Divergent)