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promoted to evil 2/15; paul singer 2 12/151119<a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/11/12/elizabeth-warren-pregnancy-fired-america-rising/">https://theintercept.com/2019/11/12/elizabeth-warren-pregnancy-fired-america-rising/</a>in oct documents surfaced that appeared to contradict a key story told by Sen. Elizabeth Warren on the campaign trail. In her telling, Warren’s “dream job” as a public school teacher ended in 1971 when the school principal noticed she was “visibly pregnant,” a form of employment discrimination that was legal and common during that era. On October 7, a conservative website presented archived documents that appeared to challenge that narrative, including the minutes of a meeting in which the school board had voted to extend Warren’s tenure and another in which the board notes that Warren herself resigned from the job.<div data-reactid="212" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The story spread like wildfire, moving from conservative publications to major newspapers. Even Kellyanne Conway, a counselor to President Donald Trump, <a href="https://twitter.com/KellyannePolls/status/1181314387048615936" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">weighed</a> in on the controversy to suggest that the Democratic candidate had lied about her life story. More records seeming to challenge Warren’s narrative emerged, including a <a href="http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people7/Warren/warren-con1.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">2007 interview</a> in Berkeley, California, in which Warren appeared to say that she left teaching on her own accord to raise her child and seek additional education credentials, as well as a contemporaneous newspaper story about Warren leaving the school “<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elizabeth-warren-pregnancy-claim-democratic-presidential-candidate-stands-by-being-pushed-out-of-teaching-job/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">to raise a family</a>.”Warren has stood by her story that she was “shown the door” because of her pregnancy. “When I was 22 and finishing my first year of teaching, I had an experience millions of women will recognize. By June I was visibly pregnant — and the principal told me the job I’d already been promised for the next year would go to someone else,” Warren <a href="https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1181556990906118144" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">said</a> on Twitter last month.But how did these documents surface in the first place? According to the results of an open records request, an opposition research group known as America Rising had requested documents from the Riverdale Board of Education in New Jersey just weeks before the news appeared. It asked for “Warren’s employment records,” as well copies of other records requested from the school board from the previous two years.In response to the request, a school official provided America Rising with the school board minutes that became the basis for the story that erupted the following month, along with emails from a Wall Street Journal reporter, who had requested similar records in April.America Rising — which is <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/america-rising-llc-pac-america-rising-squared-definers-public-affairs" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">affiliated</a> with a political action committee, a public relations firm, and a for-profit research company, as well as several news websites — has been <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?data_type=processed&committee_id=C00542902&two_year_transaction_period=2014&two_year_transaction_period=2016&two_year_transaction_period=2018&two_year_transaction_period=2020" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">backed</a> over the years by Republican donors, including hedge-fund billionaires Paul Singer and Ken Griffin, private equity investor John Childs, and banker Andrew Beal.America Rising did not respond to a request for comment. The organization did not claim direct responsibility for the Warren story, but <a href="https://americarisingpac.org/meeting-minutes-contradict-elizabeth-warrens-claim-of-being-fired-over-pregnancy/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">touted the documents</a> as soon asthey appeared online via an allied conservative website called the Washington Free Beacon. Free Beacon is also <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/us/politics/trump-dossier-paul-singer.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">funded by Singer</a>.America Rising is known for attempting to dig up dirt on politicians, journalists, and activists on behalf of donors’ interests. The group went after journalist <a href="https://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/01/america-rising-pac-sets-sights-for-koch-chronicler-jane-mayer-218081" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Jane Mayer</a>, shopping negative information about the New Yorker writer following the publication of her book “Dark Money.” In 2016, America Rising focused on environmentalist Bill McKibben, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/opinion/sunday/embarrassing-photos-of-me-thanks-to-my-right-wing-stalkers.html?r=0&module=inline" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">dispatching its team</a> to obtain thousands of documents from McKibben’s past and to follow the Vermont-based writer, filming him at public events, as well as while grocery shopping and sitting in a church pew. This year, Definers Public Affairs, an affiliate of America Rising that shares the same staff, decided to <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/04/definers-facebook-oppo-research-controversy-1480400" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">rebrand</a> following <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/15/definers-republican-firm-plan-defend-facebook-attack-rivals-soros" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">revelations</a> that the company had been retained by Facebook to orchestrate a campaign to smear its critics...</div>why wd he care about MI?
<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">The 20 Biggest Donors of the 2012 Election [2]
<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">RGA:
<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">[Read more of our coverage of political dark money. [3]
<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:#ffff00;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Created in December 2009 and shut down shortly after the election, RGA Michigan 2010 had come out of nowhere to spend [4] nearly $8.4 million—54 percent more than any other PAC had poured into any election in Michigan history. Ninety-six percent of the group's donors lived outside the state, and its top three funders included Texas homebuilder Bob Perry, Koch Industries' <span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:#ffff00;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">David Koch,<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:#ffff00;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> and New York City hedge fund CEO <span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:#ffff00;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Paul Singer.<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">On the other side of the ledger, RGA Michigan 2010 had given $5.2 million to the Michigan Republican Party—no surprise there—but, mysteriously, it had also funneled $3 million into the campaign coffers of Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
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Paul SingerSinger, the founder of hedge fund manager <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000021972" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Elliott Management Corp.</a>, was one of 2016’s top conservative contributors, giving more than $23 million over the course of the cycle. Like Adelson, Singer donated heavily to the Congressional and Senate Leadership Funds – $1.5 million and $4 million, respectively. The New York billionaire didn’t stop there. Singer spread his money around a number of conservative super PACs, also making multimillion-dollar contributions to the <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00523589&cycle=2016" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">American Unity PAC</a>, <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00541292" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Conservative Solutions PAC</a>,<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00489856&cycle=2016" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;"> Ending Spending Action Fund</a>,<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00564765&cycle=2016" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Freedom Partners Action Fund</a> and <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000068084" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Our Principles PAC</a>.Complete contribution data for the 2016 cycle will be available early next year.odd anti green?Another large donation from Singer’s foundation went to the <a target="blank" href="http://www.thempi.org/about_mpi/mission.html">Moving Picture Institute</a> – an organisation that says it produces films that promote understanding of “individual rights, limited government, and free markets”.The MPI helped fund the 2004 pro-mining documentary <a target="_blank" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20131019041247/http://mineyourownbusiness.org/press-kit.pdf">Mine Your Own Business</a> by Irish filmmakers Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney.The two would go on to make the 2009 climate science denial film Not Evil Just Wrong, which was <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/how-heartland-style-climate-sceptic-campaigns-play-hide-deniers-using-secretive-fund">partly funded through a grant from DonorsTrust</a> – a fund which stockpiles cash from conservative philanthropists and that has pushed millions into organisations promoting climate science denial while fighting action to cut emissions.Roland Mathiasson, Executive Vice President at the Copenhagen Consensus Center, told DeSmogBlog: “Not one dollar of this grant has been spent. It's for a potential future project, pending support from a broad range of political perspectives to underline the non-political nature of the project.<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2016/3/11/the_vulture_how_billionaire_rubio_backer">http://www.democracynow.org/2016/3/11/the_vulture_how_billionaire_rubio_backer</a>Argentina has reached an agreement to pay U.S. hedge funds that have

sought for 14 years to profit off the country’s debt. The hedge funds

bought up Argentina’s debt for bargain prices after its financial

crisis, then demanded full repayment. Former Argentine President

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner had refused to pay the firms, calling

them "vulture funds." But under new right-wing President Mauricio Macri,

Argentina has agreed to pay $4.65 billion to four hedge funds,

including Elliott Management, run by billionaire Paul Singer. The deal

would see the hedge funds take about 75 percent of what they demanded

from Argentina—several times more than what they actually paid for the

debt. Singer’s fund itself netted $2.4 billion—10 to 15 times its

original investment. We speak to journalist Greg Palast. His recent

article is called "Rubio’s Billionaire Wins Ransom from Argentina."...
GREG PALAST: Well, what happened is, is that Paul "The Vulture" Singer, who we’ve been—I’ve been following him for BBC and for Democracy Now!

for about nine years. This is the guy who does—he’s called "The

Vulture" not just by Argentina; he’s known by that by his friends in the

banking industry. He grabs old debts of dying nations, dying companies,

even dying people, and when there’s a famine or a war, for example, in

Argentina, during the military dictatorship when Argentina went broke,

he bought up old bonds for $50 million, just sold them back to the

government of Argentina, a government he helped place in power, for

two-and-a-half billion dollars. And he does this—he did this through

what the Argentine government and the United States Treasury call

extortion. He says, "If you don’t pay me, I’m going to stop you from

borrowing money. I’m going to choke your nation to death." He even

seized an Argentine naval ship on the high seas. I mean, he’s basically a

privateer or pirate.

And his—what’s important about what’s coming up in this election, the

reason he influenced the Argentine election was to get a puppet

president who would write him a check, which would give him a 10,000

percent profit. He’s looking for the same in the United States. Paul

"The Vulture" Singer is the number one donor to the Republican Party—not

the Kochs, by the way; Paul Singer. He’s the number one donor to

American Crossroads, run by Karl Rove, which is basically your

racial-vote-suppression-on-an-industrial-scale operation.

So, he is—why is he involved in the U.S. elections? Because during

his attack on Argentina, the secretary of state, working with the

president, the secretary of state sent her lawyers into a U.S. federal

court and said, "Don’t force Argentina to pay off this guy." She tried

to stop the extortion on Argentina, and the president joined her and the

U.S. Justice Department. And she even said, her lawyers said, that Paul

Singer’s business model is a threat to the entire world financial

order. This guy is like a kind of financial terrorist, actually. And

that’s what Hillary Clinton accused him of. By the way, Bernie Sanders

has taken a similar, very tough position against these vulture

financiers.

So, Paul Singer—this issue of Argentina ain’t just 11,000 miles away,

Amy and Juan. It is coming home to roost, literally, because he’s got

to make sure that there is no Hillary president or President Bernie that

will put him out of business. Hillary’s action probably cost him a

half-billion or a billion dollars. And he’s going to—he wants blood. And

he wants his guy in the White House, which means anyone but Bernie,

anyone but Hillary.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Well, but,

Greg, so why did he come behind Marco Rubio? Because, obviously—well,

obviously, in Donald Trump, Trump is a candidate who’s never seen a

bankruptcy he didn’t like. But what—on what basis did he go behind

Rubio?

GREG PALAST:

Well, Rubio did his work for him. Rubio made an unethical, frankly—it

horrified a lot of people. He made direct approaches to the State

Department on behalf of his top donor. Paul "The Vulture" Singer is the

number one donor to Marco Rubio. And Rubio kept banging on the State

Department to back his vulture donor against our ally, Argentina. This

is just way out of line, even in a country where money talks. This was

money screaming.

And the other thing is that, for example, Rubio was trying to help

Puerto Rico by allowing Puerto Rico to have bankruptcy rights, like any

American state, and then suddenly another vulture financier friend of

Singer called Herenstein held a big fundraiser for Rubio. Rubio flipped

around his position on Puerto Rico and said, "No, they shouldn’t have

any rights. They should fire teachers and firemen and policemen, and cut

pensions," rather than cut payments to vultures like Singer and

Herenstein and his donors. He literally flipped, literally within days

of being funded by these guys. So Rubio showed that he’s a perfect

puppet.<a href="http://www.gregpalast.com/rubios-billionaire-wins-ransom-from-argentina/">http://www.gregpalast.com/rubios-billionaire-wins-ransom-from-argentina/</a>

<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; font-family: " libre="Libre" baskerville="Baskerville" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Rubio's main backer, Paul Singer, uses his American Opportunity Alliance super PAC to fund "digging up dirt on Democrats, for example by sending video trackers to events in order to build a library of unflattering material."<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; border-left-width: 4px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); padding-left: 1em; margin: 1em; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Perhaps Bush is the perfect case study: The candidate who has underperformed the most is the one with a 2012-style campaign, who steered all his major donors into one super-pac. That organization, Right to Rise USA, is run by the grizzled strategist Mike Murphy, who succeeded in bundling a $100 million war chest and is now finding himself on the receiving end of donor backlash. Last month, for instance, a group of major Bush supporters held a conference call to vent about Murphy after he outlined his strategy in an interview to Bloomberg Politics. “These guys got rip-shit,” said one person briefed on the call.But the most important lesson the billionaires are learning this year is that they aren’t much better at politics than Karl Rove. Well, not true. There is one billionaire who seems to have contemporary Republican politics figured out. “This is no longer a meteor going through the sky,” Langone told me, observing Donald Trump’s dominance over the race and sounding just shy of panicked. “He’s been in the lead 116 of 120 days.”</blockquote>

For months, a group of high-rolling Republican donors with considerable resources to pour into super PACs or political nonprofits were undecided about which White House candidate to support with their millions. But that’s finally changing, in no small part due to billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Singer‘s announcement last weekend that he’s backing Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).

Singer’s decision could bring some unity to the prominent financier class that has already given 39.2 percent of all contributions to outside spending groups like super PACs this cycle. After all, it may have before.

Singer, the founder of Elliot Management, has already given $3.1 million to super PACs and candidates, though none to the presidential hopefuls. That makes him No. 12 on the list of top donors in the 2016 cycle so far. He placed No. 3 overall in the 2014 cycle, giving $10.6 million to conservative candidates and super PACs, and No. 20 in 2012 with $2.8 in contributions. In 2014, he was the top conservative donor overall; the only individuals to give more to super PACs and candidates were investor Tom Steyer and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who both supported liberal candidates.Click <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=a776c2e8fc&e=44dfb36771" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word; background: transparent;">here t</a><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=5ba69ad5d8&e=44dfb36771" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word; background: transparent;">o read the full article</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer</a>Paul E. Singer, a former corporate lawyer, is President, Chief Executive Officer, Co-Chief Investment Officer, Senior Risk Manager, and Director of the Elliott Management Corporation, a hedge fund.[1] Elliott Management "has been called a 'vulture fund' because a chunk of its profits comes from buying distressed companies' or countries' debt at a steep discount and then playing hardball—including, in one case, detaining the flagship of Argentina's navy—to extract payment," according to Mother Jones.[2]Singer is a major contributor to Republican candidates and causes and has made at least one undisclosed contribution to Wisconsin Club for Growth, a group that is at the center of a long-running criminal investigation into potentially illegal campaign coordination with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. See Political Activities below.Singer also serves as Chairman of the Board at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a right-wing, pro-corporate think tank.[3] Singer also advocates for legalizing same-sex marriage[4] and formed the American Unity PAC in 2012 to fund Republican candidates who support equal marriage rights for same-sex couples.[4]As of May 2015 Singer had a net worth of $1.9 billion, according to Forbes<div id="mw-content-text" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" lang="en"><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: medium none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#Ties_to_the_Koch_Brothers" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">1 Ties to the Koch Brothers</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#Political_Activities" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">2 Political Activities</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#2016_Presidential_Race" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">2.1 2016 Presidential Race</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#Disclosed_Federal_Contributions" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">2.2 Disclosed Federal Contributions</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#2014" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">2.2.1 2014</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#2012" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">2.2.2 2012</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#Ties_to_Scott_Walker_and_Dark_Money_Groups_Under_Investigation" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">2.3 Ties to Scott Walker and Dark Money Groups Under Investigation</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#Accusations_of.22Vulture.22_Capitalism" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">3 Accusations of "Vulture" Capitalism</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#Affiliations" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">4 Affiliations</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#Previous_Affiliations" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">4.1 Previous Affiliations</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#Contact_Information" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">5 Contact Information</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">5.1 References</a></li></ul></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Ties to the Koch Brothers</h2><table style="vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 205); border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody><tr><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 48, 21); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background: rgb(222, 21, 13) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Koch Wiki</th></tr><tr><td><div style="padding: 2px 5px;">The <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_brothers" title="Koch brothers" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Koch brothers</a> -- <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_H.Koch" title="David H. Koch" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">David</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Charles_G.Koch" title="Charles G. Koch" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Charles</a> -- are the right-wing billionaire co-owners of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_Industries" title="Koch Industries" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Koch Industries</a>. As two of the richest people in the world, they are key funders of the right-wing infrastructure, including the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> (ALEC) and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/State_Policy_Network" title="State Policy Network" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">State Policy Network</a> (SPN). In SourceWatch, key articles on the Kochs include: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_Brothers" title="Koch Brothers" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Koch Brothers</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_Industries" title="Koch Industries" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Koch Industries</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Americans_for_Prosperity" title="Americans for Prosperity" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Americans for Prosperity</a>,<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Encore" title="American Encore" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">American Encore</a>, and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Freedom_Partners" title="Freedom Partners" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Freedom Partners</a>.</div></td></tr></tbody></table>Singer was acknowledged at the privately held <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_Network" title="Koch Network" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Koch Network</a> donor summit in June 2011 in Vail, Colorado for donating at least $1 million to Koch-related causes.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_note-Mother_Jones_Exclusive-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[2]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Political Activities</h2><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">2016 Presidential Race</h3>Singer appears to be actively involved in fundraising for Republican presidential candidates for the 2016 election cycle, though as of May 2015 he seemed not to have chosen a single candidate to back. Singer was "actively fundraising" for Sen. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Marco_Rubio" title="Marco Rubio" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Marco</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Marco_Rubio" title="Marco Rubio" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"> Rubio</a>'s bid for the White House, according to Breitbart in April 2015,<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[3]</a> while The Wall Street Journal reported that Singer was hosting events for Ohio Gov. John Kasich and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in May 2015.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[4]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Disclosed Federal Contributions</h3>Paul E. Singer is consistently among the top individual contributors to federal political campaigns in the United States.<h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">2014</h4>Singer ranked third among all individual political contributors in the 2014 election cycle, reporting $11,518,474 in contributions to candidates, parties, PACs, and 527 organizations at the federal level, all to Republicans.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[5]</a>The following were his reported contributions over $250,000 in the 2014 cycle:<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[6]</a><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$3,200,000: Ending Spending Action Fund</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$2,997,324: American Unity PAC</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">$2,600,000: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Crossroads" title="American Crossroads" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">American Crossroads</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$500,000: Congressional Leadership Fund</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$250,000: Arkansas Horizon</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$350,000: New York 2014</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$250,000: Priorities for Iowa</li></ul><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">2012</h4>Singer was among the top 20 in individual political contributors in the 2012 election cycle, reporting $3,705,612 in contributions to candidates, parties, PACs, and 527 organizations, all to Republicans.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[7]</a>The following were his reported contributions over $50,000<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[8]</a>:<ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">$1,715,316: American Unity PAC</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">$1,000,000: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Restore_Our_Future" title="Restore Our Future" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Restore Our Future</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">$100,000: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Club_for_Growth" title="Club for Growth" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Club for Growth</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">$54,100: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican_National_Committee" title="Republican National Committee" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Republican National Committee</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">
</h3><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Ties to Scott Walker and Dark Money Groups Under Investigation</h3>
"The records include example after example of Walker or his aides encouraging donors to give money to the Wisconsin Club for Growth."Paul Singer made an undisclosed contribution of $250,000 in March 2012 to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wisconsin_Club_for_Growth" title="Wisconsin Club for Growth" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Wisconsin Club for Growth</a> (WiCFG), a Wisconsin-based organization that spent at least $9.1 million during the recall elections, and funneled at least $10 million more to other politically-active groups like Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, while reporting that it spent $0 on politics to the IRS.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[9]</a> The contribution only became public in August 2014, when documents related to a "John Doe" investigation into potentially illegal campaign coordination between Walker's campaign, WiCFG, WMC, and possibly other groups were briefly unsealed. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the documents suggest that Walker was advised to personally solicit funds from Singer and others for WiCFG:<dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"In September 2011, Doner sent an email to Walker and others with brainstorming ideas for raising money for the Wisconsin Club for Growth. Among them: "Take <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_Brothers" title="Koch Brothers" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Koch's</a> money," "Get on a plane to Vegas and sit down with <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sheldon_Adelson" title="Sheldon Adelson" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Sheldon Adelson</a>," and "Go heavy after (corporations) to give."</dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"The documents also show the club received large checks from donors soon after Walker was advised to solicit funds from them for the group. Those included $250,000 from hedge fund CEO Paul Singer, $100,000 from manufacturer Maclean-Fogg Co., $50,000 donation from Atlanticus Holdings CEO David Hanna's trust, $50,000 from hedge fund chairman Bruce Kovner, $50,000 from natural gas and oil producer Devon Energy, $15,000 from Home Depot co-founder Ken Langone and $15,000 from Trump" (emphasis added).<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[10]</a></dd></dl><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/7/71/Francis_Schmitz_Supplemental_Opp%E2%80%99n_to_Pl.%E2%80%99s.Mot.For_Prelim.Inj.%2C_O%E2%80%99Keefe_v.Schmitz%2C_Filed_Feb.15%2C_2014..pdf" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 16px; background: transparent url(" http="http" upload.wikimedia.org="upload.wikimedia.org" wikipedia="wikipedia" commons="commons" icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif="Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif" no-repeat="no-repeat" scroll="scroll">Case documents</a> filed by the prosecutors include the following supporting exhibits related to Singer:<dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"[Id. at ¶¶ 53, 55; Exhibits 44, 100] A March 7, 2012, email from Kate Doner to Scott Walker advising him regarding “meetings to make happen while in Sea Island . . . . Paul Singer: Grab him.” On May 8, 2012, $250,000 was deposited into the WiCFG account via wire transfer from the account of Paul Singer."</dd></dl>For more information, see the pages <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Scott_Walker" title="Scott Walker" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Scott Walker</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wisconsin_Club_for_Growth" title="Wisconsin Club for Growth" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Wisconsin Club for Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Scott_Walker_John_Doe_Documents" title="Scott Walker John Doe Documents" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Scott Walker John Doe Documents</a>, and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_Campaign_to_Legalize_Coordination_in_Wisconsin_and_Nationwide" title="The Campaign to Legalize Coordination in Wisconsin and Nationwide" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">The Campaign to Legalize Coordination in Wisconsin and Nationwide</a>.<h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Accusations of "Vulture" Capitalism</h2>Investigative journalist <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Greg_Palast" title="Greg Palast" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Greg Palast</a> has characterized Singer's business tactics as a "vulture attack." Palast writes,<dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"Singer's modus operandi is to find some forgotten tiny debt owed by a very poor nation (Peru and Congo were on his menu). He waits for the US and European taxpayers to forgive the poor nations' debts; then waits at bit longer for offers of food aid, medicine and investment loans. Then Singer pounces: legally grabbing at every resource and all the money going to the desperate country. Trade stops, funds freeze and an entire economy is effectively held hostage.</dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"Singer then demands aid-giving nations pay monstrous ransoms to let trade resume. At BBC TV's Newsnight, we learned that Singer demanded $400 million dollars from the Congo for a debt he picked up for less than $10 million."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[11]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[12]</a></dd></dl><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Affiliations</h2>As of May 2015:<ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">President, Chief Executive Officer, Co-Chief Investment Officer, Senior Risk Manager, and Director, Elliott Management Corporation<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_note-bps-17" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[13]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">President and treasurer, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer_Foundation" title="Paul E. Singer Foundation" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Paul E. Singer Foundation</a> (formerly Paul and Emily Singer Family Foundation)<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[14]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Chairmen of the Board, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Manhattan_Institute_for_Policy_Research" title="Manhattan Institute for Policy Research" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Manhattan Institute for Policy Research</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_note-mi-19" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[15]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Board member, Commentary Magazine, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[16]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Advisor, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[17]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Board member, Harvard Medical School<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[18]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Member, Committee on Capital Markets Regulation<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[19]</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Previous Affiliations</h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Former board member, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jewish_Institute_for_National_Security_Affairs" title="Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_note-Newsbull-24" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[20]</a></li></ul><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Contact Information</h2>Elliot Management Corporation
40 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212.974.6000
Fax:212.478.2476
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<h3 style="color: black; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">References</h3><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li id="cite_note-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_ref-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Forbes, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.forbes.com/profile/paul-singer/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">Paul Singer</a>, individual profile, accessed May 2015.</li><li id="cite_note-Mother_Jones_Exclusive-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_ref-Mother_Jones_Exclusive_6-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Gavin Aronsen, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/09/koch-brothers-million-dollar-donor-club" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">Exclusive: The Koch Brothers' Million-Dollar Donor Club</a>," Mother Jones, September 6, 2011.</li><li id="cite_note-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_ref-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Matthew Boyle, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/04/13/megadonor-paul-singer-fundraising-for-marco-rubio/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">Megadonor Paul Singer Fundraising for Marco Rubio</a>, Breibart, April 13, 2015.</li><li id="cite_note-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_ref-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Heather Haddon, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2015/05/15/nyc-hedge-fund-manager-to-host-fundraisers-for-two-gop-governors/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">NYC Hedge-Fund Manager to Host Manhattan Events for Christie, Kasich</a>, The Wall Street Journal, May 15, 2015.</li><li id="cite_note-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_ref-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Center for Responsive Politics, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/overview/topindivs.php" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">2014 Top Individual Contributors: All Federal Contributions</a>, Open Secrets database, accessed May 2015.</li><li id="cite_note-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_ref-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Center for Responsive Politics, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/usearch/?q=Paul+Singer&cx=010677907462955562473%3Anlldkv0jvam&cof=FORID%3A11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">Paul Singer 2014 Federal Contributions</a>, Open Secrets database, accessed May 2015.</li><li id="cite_note-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_ref-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Center for Responsive Politics, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/bigpicture/topindivs.php?cycle=2012&type=src&view=fc" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">2012 Top Individual Contributors: All Federal Contributions</a>, Open Secrets database, accessed May 2015.</li><li id="cite_note-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_ref-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Center for Responsive Politics, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.php?sort=A&name=Paul%2BSinger&state=NY&zip=&employ=&cand=&soft=&cycle=2012" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">2012 2012 Donor Lookup</a>, Open Secrets database, accessed May 2015.</li><li id="cite_note-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_ref-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Brendan Fischer, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/04/12816/scott-walker-GOP-prosecutor-john-doe" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">GOP Prosecutor Defends Scott Walker Criminal Probe, Says 'Let's Get the Truth Out'</a>," PR Watch, May 1, 2015.</li><li id="cite_note-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_ref-14" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Patrick Marley, Daniel Bice, and Lee Bergquist, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/walker-wanted-funds-sent-to-wisconsin-club-for-growth-b99336519z1-272364371.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">Walker wanted funds funneled to Wisconsin Club for Growth</a>," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 22, 2014.</li><li id="cite_note-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_ref-15" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Greg Palast, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gregpalast.com/uber-vultures-the-billionaires-who-would-pick-our-president/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">Über-Vultures: The Billionaires Who Would Pick Our President</a>," TruthOut/Buzzflash, October 5, 2011.</li><li id="cite_note-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_ref-16" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Amy Goodman, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.democracynow.org/2011/11/22/reporter_greg_palast_exposes_how_us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">Reporter Greg Palast Exposes How U.S. “Vulture” Funds Make Millions By Exploiting African Nations</a>," Democracy Now!, November 22, 2011.</li><li id="cite_note-bps" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_ref-bps_0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Cite error: Invalid <code style="color: black; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); border-radius: 2px; padding: 1px 4px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><ref /></code> tag; no text was provided for refs named <code style="color: black; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); border-radius: 2px; padding: 1px 4px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">bps</code></li><li id="cite_note-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_ref-18" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Inside Philanthropy, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/fundraising-in-new-york-city/paul-e-singer-foundation-new-york-city-grants.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">Paul E. Singer Foundation: New York City Grants</a>, Inside Philanthropy, 2015.</li><li id="cite_note-mi" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_ref-mi_0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Cite error: Invalid <code style="color: black; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); border-radius: 2px; padding: 1px 4px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><ref /></code> tag; no text was provided for refs named <code style="color: black; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); border-radius: 2px; padding: 1px 4px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">mi</code></li><li id="cite_note-20" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_ref-20" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Commentary Magazine, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.commentarymagazine.com/about/staff/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">About Us: Staff</a>, Commentary Magazine, 2015.</li><li id="cite_note-21" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_ref-21" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Princeton University, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web.princeton.edu/sites/jmadison/people/council.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">Advisors</a>, Princeton University, 2015.</li><li id="cite_note-22" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E.Singer#cite_ref-22" style="text-decoration: none; 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This Vulture-Fund Billionaire Is the GOP's Go-To Guy on Wall Street
Meet the hard-charging, warship-seizing hedge fund mogul who has become congressional Republicans' most powerful fundraiser.
By Peter Stone | Fri Oct. 4, 2013 6:00 AM EDT
When Republicans make their pilgrimages to Wall Street for money to help take back the Senate next year, there may be no hotter ticket than a party at Paul Singer's. The 69-year-old hedge fund billionaire [1]'s co-op apartment at the Beresford, a hulking Italian Renaissance building on Central Park West whose celebrity residents have included Jerry Seinfeld [2], Glenn Close [3], and Helen Gurley Brown [4], can draw scads of high-finance players. The haul for a dinner event has been known to run to $1.4 million [5], and Singer himself has no trouble writing a $1 million check [6] to a super-PAC. He's been described as a "fundraising terrorist" [7] for his persistence in twisting arms, a skill that has helped drive a major strategic shift among Big Finance donors, who favored Obama in 2008 [8] but now overwhelmingly back the GOP [9].Singer has a professorial mien and close-cropped beard that give him a passing resemblance to Fed chairman Ben Bernanke [12]. A hardline free-marketeer with political roots in the Barry Goldwater era, he despises the Obama administration's push to tighten financial regulations. At a 2010 dinner for the Manhattan Institute [5], a conservative think tank whose board he chairs, he blasted "indiscriminate attacks by political leaders against anything that moves in the world of finance." Singer's $21 billion Elliott Management is one of many firms that face tougher oversight due to the 2010 Dodd-Frank law [13], the sweeping financial-services overhaul that he'd like to see repealed. Elliott has been called a "vulture fund" [14] because a chunk of its profits comes from buying distressed companies' or countries' debt at a steep discount and then playing hardball—including, in one case, detaining the flagship of Argentina's navy [15]—to extract payment.The trifecta of big checks, high-powered connections, and influence in GOP policy circles has made Singer a kind of triple threat. 
["Singer is the big power broker in the Republican financial world," says one operative who knows him. "He's involved with almost everything." ]
Fortune described him [16] as "a passionate defender of the 1%." In practical terms, notes one conservative donor, "if you write checks as big as Singer's, you can be close to anyone."Singer got his start as a megadonor in the 2004 campaign cycle, when he helped raise Wall Street cash for Swift Boat Veterans for Truth [17], the group that attacked John Kerry's war record in Vietnam. In 2007 he backed Rudy Giuliani's presidential bid [18], including loaning the former New York City mayor his plane [19]. Singer also secretly funneled $175,000 [20] into a California ballot measure to allocate the state's electoral votes on a proportional basis—a strategic ploy designed to move some of the blue state's votes to the GOP. Singer was instrumental in the selection of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan [21], a fellow fan of laissez-faire capitalism, as Mitt Romney's 2012 running mate; Dan Senor, now a senior adviser at Elliott, was one of the campaign's top foreign policy staffers. (Senor served as the Coalition Provisional Authority spokesman during the early days of the occupation of Iraq, where he once said [22], "Well, off the record, Paris is burning. But on the record, security and stability are returning to Iraq.")
Recently, Singer has given sizable sums to the billionaire Koch brothers' dark-money projects as well as to the Club for Growth [23], an anti-tax group that has helped tea partiers oust several mainstream Republicans. He's also donated generously to Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS, and has tapped Susan Ralston, a former aide to Rove and disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff [24], for fundraising help. Elliott Management employees are major backers of virtually every top Republican in Washington, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell [25] and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor [26], as well as 2016 presidential prospects like Ryan [27] and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio [28].
Yet Singer has been at odds with the party on a few important issues, most notably gay marriage. (He has a son who is gay and was married in Massachusetts [29] a few years ago.) Singer has plowed more than $11 million into marriage equality drives since 2001 and put another $1.7 million [30] into the launch of the American Unity PAC, which backs pro-gay-rights Republicans. He's also worked closely with Ken Mehlman, the former Republican National Committee chairman (and now Wall Street investment banker) who came out [31] a few years ago. "Paul's active on the issue because of his conservative ideology, not in spite of it," Mehlman says. "He strongly believes in it. We collaborate very closely."
In the end, though, Singer's distaste for the Obama administration's economic policies has squarely aligned his giving with the conservative wing of the party. His top cause is repealing or weakening Dodd-Frank [32], which he sees as both too meddlesome (it expanded federal oversight of hedge funds and curbed creditors' participation in big corporate bankruptcies, a key part of the vulture fund business) and too lax (he's criticized it for not requiring enough disclosure from big banks).
["Singer is the big power broker in the Republican financial world," says one operative who knows him. "He's involved with almost everything."]Among Elliott's allies is Rep. Scott Garrett, the New Jersey Republican who chairs the House subcommittee that oversees the Securities and Exchange Commission. Garrett has fought to slash the SEC budget and calls Dodd-Frank "unconstitutional." [33] In 2010, Elliott executives ponied up nearly $200,000 [34] for two campaign committees that helped Garrett and also boosted his stature with fellow Republicans; a large chunk of one of the committees' funds went to assist other members. Singer and other Elliott execs have also opened their wallets wide for Cantor, who has led efforts to protect a massive tax break, known as carried interest, that allows hedge funders to pay very low capital-gains rates on their income.
But in what is perhaps its highest-stakes battle, Elliott has spent more than a decade waging an aggressive legal campaign to force Argentina to pay down nearly $1.3 billion in sovereign debt accrued in the wake of its 2001 financial meltdown. (Elliott would get about $300 million [35] for bonds that Argentina claims [36] it picked up for $48 million.) Most American banks and other creditors have long since accepted the country's offers to pay off its debts at about 30 percent of their original value. But an Elliott subsidiary has won several federal rulings that have increased the pressure on Buenos Aires. The subsidiary is represented by former solicitor general and Bush v. Gore lawyer Ted Olson, who recently helped defeat California's anti-gay-marriage law [37] in the Supreme Court.
But Elliott's stance has sparked concerns among big banks and the Obama administration, which has backed some of Argentina's claims in court. They fear that squeezing Argentina could put other debt deals with distressed countries [38] at risk and jolt the global bond market. But Elliott has lobbied hard and garnered some backing in Congress. Last year, then-Florida Rep. Connie Mack [39] sponsored a bill to push Argentina to pay $3.5 billion to hedge funds, including Elliott—whose employees were some of the biggest supporters of Mack's unsuccessful 2012 Senate campaign. (Mack has said that he was unaware of Singer's role in the debt fight.)
It's not the first time Elliott has put the screws to poor countries. In the mid-'90s, it was awarded a $58 million judgment on Peruvian debt that it had bought for around $11 million; a few years later, it walked off with $90 million on Congolese debt [16] that it had acquired for about $20 million. Yet with Argentina the fund has ratcheted its tactics up a few notches. Last October, Elliott's subsidiary had the Argentine navy's tall ship ARA Libertad detained in a Ghanaian port; the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea [40] later called the impoundment a violation of international law.To those who know Singer, such aggressive stunts are wholly in character. Harvey Miller, a partner and bankruptcy expert at Weil, Gotshal & Manges who has fought Elliott in court, calls him a "very tough and very difficult adversary. He's not a compromiser. He's persistent and won't go away." Democrats are likely to realize as much in 2014.
box:Hey Big SpenderEvery single member of Congress elected last fall got money from the 1 percent of the 1 percent, the tiny elite of top donors like Paul Singer.
Percentage of population these big donors represent: 0.01% [10]
Percentage of all 2012 campaign donations they gave: 28% [11]
Total amount they gave to candidates: $410 million
To super-PACs: $500 million
Percentage of campaign donations that went to Republicans: 59%
Percentage of big donations that came from Wall Street: 25%
Top employer for big donors: Goldman Sachs
13th-biggest employer: Singer's Elliott Management
Total given by Goldman's megadonors: $4.7 million
Total given by Elliott's megadonors: $4.4 million
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=More than $470 million of cash flowing into a key funding arm of the climate science denial movement in the United States is untraceable, a DeSmog investigation has found.Sister organisations <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/who-donors-trust" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Donors Trust</a> [3] (DT) and <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/donors-capital-fund" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Donors Capital Fund</a> [4] (DCF) declared an income of $511 million between 2005 and 2012, tax records show.But a DeSmog analysis of the sources of DT and DCF income finds that some $479 million of the income is “dark money” coming from individuals or groups who do not have to declare their donations.The amount of untraceable cash moving through DT and DCF is likely to be increasing substantially. In 2013, the two groups had their biggest year to date with a combined income of $152m and cash assets of $138m. Donors Trust itself saw income more than double from $46m in 2012 to $103m in 2013 even though the value of grants it handed out remained stable at about $40m each year.<div alt="" class="media-image" height="792" width="690" style="width: 500px; height: 574px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><img alt="" class="media-image" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.alternet.org/files/screen_shot_2015-05-11_at_3.44.48_pm.png" style="border: 0px; width: 500px; height: 574px;" width="690" height="792" /></div>While the role of DT and DCF in financing the climate science denial movement has been known for several years, DeSmog’s investigation reveals for the first time the true scale of untraceable money flowing through the two funds, which share an address in Virginia.DeSmog’s investigation found just $32 million of donations to the two conservative-aligned funding arms originated with other non-profits that make tax records and details of donations available in public documents. Both DT and DCF have funneled money to high profile advocacy groups that campaign against regulations to cut greenhouse gases and promote fringe and discredited views on climate science.While Greenpeace analysis reviewed by DeSmog shows DT and DCF have given $170m over the years to fund other groups blocking climate change action, the source of the Donors' network income remains largely hidden.DT and DCF have been described as the “<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/donors-trust-donor-capital-fund-dark-money-koch-bradley-devos" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">dark money ATM</a> [5]” of the conservative right in the United States, and are key funders for groups including the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Heartland Institute</a> [6] and the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/committee-constructive-tomorrow" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow</a> [7].Many of the organisations funded by DT and DCF are known to have received cash from fossil fuel interests in the past. Both DT and DCF say they only give money to projects that will explicitly promote “free markets” and “liberty” and that will lower government involvement in society.A form on the DT website asks potential funders to declare that they “agree that it is wrong that the fortunes of successful Americans are being used to fund political and social causes that undermine the free market economy.”The cash given through DT will “fund good conservative and liberty-oriented causes,” the form says.One major known funder of DT is the Knowledge and Progress Fund (KPF) that donated $7.65 million from 2010 to 2013 — the only grants made by the foundation.On the KPF board are oil billionaire and major Republican benefactor Charles Koch, his wife Liz and son Charles Chase Koch. Richard Fink, a Koch company director and long-standing aide to Charles Koch, is also a KPF director.Dark Money Donor-Advised FundsDT and DCF are both so-called “donor-advised funds” where cash is accepted from donors and placed in a dedicated account before being redistributed under the DT or DCF name.This has the effect of hiding the identity of any individual donors and removes a direct association between a funder and an organisation or project.For example, between 2002 and 2013, Greenpeace analysis shows that the Heartland Institute received more than $16 million from DCF. The Heartland Institute organises regular conferences for climate science denialists and once compared people who accepted climate change science to mass murderers.The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, which promotes extremist views on climate change while denigrating climate scientists and renewable energy, has received more than $7 million from DT. DT and DCF were among 100 groups targeted with <a href="http://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/markey-boxer-whitehouse-query-fossil-fuel-companies-climate-denial-organizations-on-science-funding" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">letters from three US Democrat</a> [8]ic senators “to determine whether they are funding scientific studies designed to confuse the public and avoid taking action to cut carbon pollution”.Other groups to receive funding from DT or DCF include the State Policy Network, the Cato Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Americans For Prosperity Foundation. 

Many of the conservative organisations funded by DT and DCF work across multiple issue areas and it is not possible to know how much is spent directly on their climate change and energy advocacy.According to analysis from Greenpeace, between 2002 and 2013, DT and DCF funneled $170m to organisations that have worked to undermine action on climate change. DT has also funded the work of fossil fuel-funded contrarian scientist <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/willie-soon" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Dr Willie Soon</a> [9], who it emerged earlier this year had described his scientific studies as “deliverables” to funders at coal firm Southern Company and to DT.DeSmog analysed the tax returns of DT and DCF and found declared income from donations and grants worth $511m between the two organisations. DeSmog used data from <a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Conservative Transparency</a> [10], a website which tracks money flows between conservative groups and foundations, and found that from 2005 to 2012 only $32m came from organisations required to disclose who they fund. This means $479m of the money handed to DT and DCF came from unknown sources. A study by Professor Bob Brulle, of Drexel University, published in 2013 examined the funding of the “climate change counter-movement” and found that DT and DCF were likely the “single largest funder.”In the journal <a href="http://drexel.edu/_{/media/Files/now/pdfs/Institutionalizing%20Delay%20-%20Climatic%20Change.ashx}" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Climatic Change</a> [11], Brulle wrote of DT and DCF: “Because contributions to a donor directed foundation are not required to be made public, their existence provides a way for individuals or corporations to make anonymous contributions. In effect, these two philanthropic foundations form a black box that conceals the identity of contributors to various CCCM (climate change counter movement) organizations.”Brulle’s study found that DT and DCF were funding an increasingly large share of the movement. In 2003 DT and DCF were funding just 3.3 per cent of the movement, but by 2010 this had risen to 23.7 per cent. Commenting on DeSmog’s findings, Brulle said: “DT/DCF are a major funder of the conservative organizations that fight against climate change.  But there are also others.  I think it is safe to say that they are a major funder among a number of others, such as the Scaife or Bradley Foundations.  They are one among a dozen or so major funders.“I think it is vital that all contributions to advocacy organizations, regardless of their viewpoint, should be fully transparent.”A new funder to DT is the foundation of billionaire “vulture capitalist” and hedge fund manager Paul Singer, who donated $1.5m in 2012. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/02/05/exclusive-bjorn-lomborg-think-tank-funder-revealed-billionaire-republican-vulture-capitalist-paul-singer" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Singer was revealed by DeSmog</a> [12] to have funded the think tank of Danish climate contrarian Bjorn Lomborg.The Charles Koch Foundation has some $63 million invested in one of Singer’s hedge funds, according to that <a href="http://www.charleskochfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/CKF-2013-990-PF-Public-Information-Return.pdf" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">foundation’s tax returns</a> [13].

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billionaire “vulture capitalist” and major backer of the US Republican Party is a major funder of the think tank of Danish climate science contrarian and fossil fuels advocate <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/bjorn-lomborg">Bjørn Lomborg</a>, DeSmogBlog has found.

New York-based hedge fund manager Paul Singer’s charitable foundation gave $200,000 to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center (CCC) in 2013, latest US tax disclosures reveal.

The grant to Lomborg’s think tank is revealed in the <a target="_blank" href="http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990pf_pdf_archive/272/272009342/272009342_201311_990PF.pdf">tax form of the Paul E. Singer Foundation</a> covering that foundation’s activities between December 2012 and November 2013.

Singer, described as a “<a target="blank" href="http://fortune.com/2012/03/26/mitt-romneys-hedge-fund-kingmaker/">passionate defender of the 1%”,</a> has emerged as a major force in the Republican party in recent years and was a <a target="blank" href="http://fortune.com/2012/03/26/mitt-romneys-hedge-fund-kingmaker/">key backer and influencer</a> during Mitt Romney’s failed tilt at the Presidency.

The $200,000 grant represented almost one third of the $621,057 in donations declared by the Copenhagen Consensus Center in 2013.

A spokesperson for the think tank told DeSmogBlog that “not one dollar” of the Singer grant had been spent.

Lomborg, a Danish political scientist, is often cited on lists of the world’s most influential people.

He writes extensively on climate change and energy issues with his columns appearing in many of the world’s biggest news outlets.

The CCC think tank produces reports that consistently argue that cutting greenhouse gas emissions and increasing the roll-out of current renewable energy technologies should be low priorities for policy makers.

Most recently, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/02/02/lomborg-sings-wsj-s-same-old-climate-change-song-don-t-worry-be-happy">Lomborg wrote a column for the Wall Street Journal</a> arguing climate change was not the urgent problem that many thought.

He wrote that “the narrative that the world’s climate is changing from bad to worse is unhelpful alarmism”.

Lomborg argues the poorest countries need fossil fuels to lift themselves out of poverty – a position that <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/10/28/how-bill-gates-and-peabody-energy-share-vision-coal-powered-future-through-views-bjorn-lomborg">gained support from the world’s richest man, Bill Gates</a>.

At a G20 side event in Brisbane last year, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/10/28/how-bill-gates-and-peabody-energy-share-vision-coal-powered-future-through-views-bjorn-lomborg">Lomborg appeared at an event sponsored by the world’s largest private coal company, Peabody Energy</a>, where he again argued that the world’s poor needed fossil fuels.

The CCC’s keystone project is the Post 2015 Consensus that is trying to influence the formulation of the next set of global development goals being discussed by the United Nations. Those goals will replace the millennium development goals.

Lomborg’s CCC think tank was registered as a not-for-profit in the US in 2008 and has attracted almost $5 million in donations since then. In 2013, the CCC paid Lomborg, its founder and president, $200,484 for his work. The previous year Lomborg was paid $775,000.

The think tank has insisted that its funders, most of which are anonymous, do not influence its research.  The <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/06/25/millions-behind-bjorn-lomborg-copenhagen-consensus-center" target="_blank">think tank says</a> it does not accept funding from the fossil fuel industry.

Despite being registered in the US, Lomborg has <a target="blank" href="http://freakonomics.com/2014/10/02/108967/">admitted that all but one of the think tank’s seven staff</a> are based elsewhere.  The think tank’s address is a <a target="blank" href="https://maps.gstatic.com/m/streetview/?ll=42.640453,-71.313315&spn=0.18,0.3&cbll=42.640453,-71.313315&layer=c&panoid=IvSjZTEl7LYYcz9MxlQ2hA&cbp=,133.33,,2,8.540001&output=classic&dg=ntvb">parcel service in Lowell, Massachusetts</a>.

The discovery of support from Paul Singer comes after a <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/06/25/millions-behind-bjorn-lomborg-copenhagen-consensus-center">DeSmogBlog investigation</a> last year found that CCC’s early funders included conservative think tanks with links to the network of organisations funded by the Koch brothers, who have pushed millions into organisations denying climate science and blocking action to cut fossil fuel emissions.

In the 2014 US political spending cycle, data presented by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/summ.php?cycle=2014&disp=D&type=V&superonly=S">OpenSecrets</a> shows Singer spent $9.4 million influencing Republicans – the biggest disclosed individual spender on the conservative side of US politics.

Singer, whose Elliott Management hedge fund manages about $25 billion in assets, has been branded a “vulture capitalist” enterprise due to investment strategies employed by his firm that targets foreign economies in trouble.

A 2011 summary of “vulture funds” in <a target="_blank" href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2011/nov/15/vulture-funds-key-players">The Guardian</a> said Elliott Management’s “principal investment strategy” was “buying distressed debt cheaply and selling it at a profit or suing for full payment”.

Greg Palast, the author of <a target="blank" href="http://www.gregpalast.com/vulturespicnic/">Vulture’s Picnic</a>, documented in <a target="blank" href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2014/aug/07/argentina-debt-crisis-barack-obama-paul-singer-vulture-funds">The Guardian</a> how Singer’s firm had managed to pocket $1.29 billion from the US Treasury after a “brilliantly complex” financial manoeuvre in 2009 that saw Singer lead a consortium to buy the parts supplier of General Motors and Chrysler before claiming cash from a government bailout of the struggling auto industry.

Singer, who according to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.forbes.com/profile/paul-singer/">Forbes</a> is personally worth $1.8 billion, remains in conflict with the Argentinian government over debt bought by an Elliott affiliate and other investors.

As well as the generosity shown to Bjorn Lomborg’s think tank, Singer’s foundation gave $500,000 to the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, where Singer is chairman of the board of trustees.

The Manhattan Institute is also known for downplaying the impacts of climate change while promoting fossil fuels.

In October 2014, Manhattan senior fellow <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/robert-bryce">Robert Bryce</a> wrote a report <a target="blank" href="http://www.manhattan-institute.org/pdf/eper_14.pdf">Not Beyond Coal</a> arguing that the future for the coal industry was bright and the fossil fuel was “essential” for addressing poverty in developing countries — a position <a target="blank" href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2013/dec/06/bjorn-lomborg-climate-change-poor-countries-need-fossil-fuels">identical to that pushed by Lomborg</a>.

Bryce also attacks the wind industry claiming it cannot cut emissions, describing wind turbines as “climate change scarecrows”. In testimony to the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdYlyt3R4fc#t=135" style=" letter-spacing: 0.03em; line-height: 1.5em;">US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in February 2014,</a> Bryce said wind turbines were “slaughtering wildlife” and killed 600,000 birds every year in the US.

A <a target="_blank" href="http://www.aoucospubs.org/doi/full/10.1650/CONDOR-13-090.1">review of studies and data into US bird deaths</a> has found about 600 million birds are killed annually in collisions with windows and buildings, but even this high number was only a quarter of the birds killed annually in the US by feral cats.

Another large donation from Singer’s foundation went to the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.thempi.org/about_mpi/mission.html">Moving Picture Institute</a> – an organisation that says it produces films that promote understanding of “individual rights, limited government, and free markets”.

The MPI helped fund the 2004 pro-mining documentary <a target="_blank" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20131019041247/http://mineyourownbusiness.org/press-kit.pdf">Mine Your Own Business</a> by Irish filmmakers Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney.

The two would go on to make the 2009 climate science denial film Not Evil Just Wrong, which was <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/how-heartland-style-climate-sceptic-campaigns-play-hide-deniers-using-secretive-fund">partly funded through a grant from DonorsTrust</a> – a fund which stockpiles cash from conservative philanthropists and that has pushed millions into organisations promoting climate science denial while fighting action to cut emissions.

Roland Mathiasson, Executive Vice President at the Copenhagen Consensus Center, told DeSmogBlog: “Not one dollar of this grant has been spent. It's for a potential future project, pending support from a broad range of political perspectives to underline the non-political nature of the project.

“It is a project for the public conversation, so obviously there will be a lot of communication once broad support is secured, and the project is launched.”

Mathiasson declined to provide further details.

DeSmogBlog attempted to contact the Paul E Singer Foundation to ask about their donation to CCC, but email requests went unanswered.

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<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-08-07/argentinas-vulture-paul-singer-is-wall-street-freedom-fighter">http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-08-07/argentinas-vulture-paul-singer-is-wall-street-freedom-fighter</a>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_E._Singer" title="Paul E. Singer" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Paul E. Singer</a>, Chairman of the Board, Elliott Management Corporation</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Michael_J._Fedak" title="Michael J. Fedak" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Michael J. Fedak</a>, Vice Chairman</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dietrich_Weismann&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dietrich Weismann (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Dietrich Weismann</a>, (Chairman emeritus), Weismann Associates, LLC</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charles_H._Brunie&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charles H. Brunie (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Charles H. Brunie</a>, (Chairman emeritus), Brunie Associates</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lawrence_Mone" title="Lawrence Mone" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Lawrence J. Mone</a>, President</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Cliff_Asness" title="Cliff Asness" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Clifford S. Asness</a>, AQR Capital Management, LLC</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Andrew_Cader" title="Andrew Cader" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Andrew Cader</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ann_J._Charters&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ann J. Charters (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Ann J. Charters</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ravenel_Curry&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ravenel Curry (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Ravenel Curry</a>, Eagle Capital Management, LLC</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Timothy_G.Dalton,Jr.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Timothy G. Dalton, Jr. (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Timothy G. Dalton, Jr.</a>, Dalton, Greiner, Hartman, Maher & Co.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sean_M._Fieler&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sean M. Fieler (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Sean M. Fieler</a>, Analyst, Equinox Management Partners, L.P.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenneth_M._Garschina&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kenneth M. Garschina (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Kenneth M. Garschina</a>, Principal, Mason Capital Management</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenneth_B._Gilman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kenneth B. Gilman (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Kenneth B. Gilman</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Maurice_R._Greenberg" title="Maurice R. Greenberg" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Maurice R. Greenberg</a>, Chairman & CEO, C.V. STARR & Co., Inc.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fleur_Harlan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fleur Harlan (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Fleur Harlan</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Roger_Kimball" title="Roger Kimball" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Roger Kimball</a>, The New Criterion</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/William_Kristol" title="William Kristol" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">William Kristol</a>, Editor & Publisher, The <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Weekly_Standard" title="Weekly Standard" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Weekly Standard</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Daniel_Loeb" title="Daniel Loeb" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Daniel Loeb</a>, Third Point, LLC</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rebekah_Mercer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rebekah Mercer (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Rebekah Mercer</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Brian_Miller&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Brian Miller (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Brian Miller</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jay_H._Newman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jay H. Newman (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Jay H. Newman</a>, Elliott Management Corporation</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Rodney_W._Nichols" title="Rodney W. Nichols" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Rodney Nichols</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_Rosenkranz&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert Rosenkranz (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Robert Rosenkranz</a>, Chairman, Delphi Financial Group, Inc.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nathan_E._Saint-Amand&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nathan E. Saint-Amand (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Nathan E. Saint-Amand</a>, MD</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Thomas_W._Smith" title="Thomas W. Smith" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Thomas W. Smith</a>, Prescott Investors</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Donald_G._Tober&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Donald G. Tober (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Donald G. Tober</a>, Chairman of the Board, Sugar Foods Corporation</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bruce_G._Wilcox&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bruce G. Wilcox (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Bruce G. Wilcox</a>, Chairman, Management Committee, Cumberland Associates, LLC</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kathryn_S._Wylde" title="Kathryn S. Wylde" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Kathryn S. Wylde</a>, President & CEO, The <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Partnership_for_New_York_City" title="Partnership for New York City" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Partnership for New York City</a></li>

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And the Kochs are by no means the only rich guys aiming to elect more Republicans. As Politico <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/paul-singer-republican-gop-fundraising-campaigns-donors-103600.html" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(157, 157, 157); text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">reported</a> Tuesday:

A group of major GOP donors, led by New York billionaire Paul Singer, is quietly expanding its political footprint ahead of the midterm elections in an increasingly assertive effort to shape the direction of the Republican Party.

The operation was launched discreetly last year, with the previously unreported formation of a club called the American Opportunity Alliance to bring together some of the richest pro-business GOP donors in the country … Around the same time, Singer and his allies also formed a federal fundraising committee called Friends for an American Majority that raised big checks for a select list of the GOP’s most highly touted 2014 Senate hopefuls.

Those candidates are among the big names expected at a two-day retreat organized by the American Opportunity Alliance set for the last week of February at a swanky Colorado resort. The closed-door event — which is also expected to draw House Speaker John Boehner and New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, according to Republicans familiar with the plans — is seen in GOP finance circles as a grand debut of sorts for Singer’s still-amorphous club. …

[T]he list of big-name pols expected at the American Opportunity Alliance’s upcoming Colorado gathering highlights the influence that only a few big donors can command in the post-Citizens United era, when a small group of wealthy individuals can reorder elections with just a few huge checks.

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Singer’s group is backing Alaska Senate Republican hopeful Dan Sullivan, who was appointed by Sarah Palin to serve as state natural resources commissioner. Sullivan used the position to advocate for his state’s right to exploit natural resources and against federal efforts to protect Alaskan land.

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romney trust invests in ellliot

bbb 57

vulture singer bought 10m$ congo debt but got 400M in assets?  55

held up argentina tho settled in RR time; BO doJ busted him amicus in NML v; house fin comm called Olsen

Palast VPicnic:

Singer buys Grace, USG and Owen Corning cheap, cutting $ to victims boosts stock price 372

(asbestos) then flipped for 1bill$ profit.

Billionaire 4: Paul Singer

Paul Singer bought bonds during congo civil war (paid 10m but sued to get 400 m) 372

bought owen corning during asbestos trouble;' funded an expert who said workers lying, bought by B2 , replaced lay as #1 $ to RN

Now we get to the carrion king, Paul Singer, known as Singer The Vulture. I didn't give him the moniker. The name Vulture was tagged on him and his speculator colleagues by the prime minister of Britain and the World Bank. Recently, former United Nations envoy Winston Tubman suggested I ask Singer or his business associates, "Do you know you're causing babies to die?"

What does this guy do -- put poison in kiddies' milk? Worse: he takes away the milk.

Singer's modus operandi is to find some forgotten tiny debt owed by a very poor nation (Peru fujimoro air force 1 needed to flee? repo?) and Congo were on his menu). He waits for the United States and European taxpayers to forgive the poor nations' debts, then waits at bit longer for offers of food aid, medicine and investment loans. Then Singer pounces, legally grabbing at every resource and all the money going to the desperate country. Trade stops, funds freeze and an entire economy is effectively held hostage.

Singer then demands aid-giving nations pay monstrous ransoms to let trade resume.  At BBC TV's Newsnight, we learned that Singer demanded $400 million dollars from the Congo for a debt he picked up for less than $10 million. If he doesn't get his 4,000 percent profit, he can effectively starve the nation. I don't mean that figuratively -- I mean starve as in no food. In Congo-Brazzaville last year, one-fourth of all deaths of children under five were caused by malnutrition.

For BBC, I tried to ask Vulture Singer the diplomat's question about the baby-killing, but I couldn't get past George Gershwin.  (In the New York office tower housing the billionaires' roost, a Gershwin lookalike in top hat and tails plays show tunes on a grand piano for Singer's grand entrance.)

And it's not just poor African carcasses that tempt Singer. Indeed, during my investigation for my new book, Vultures' Picnic, I discovered that Singer's first big vulture attack was on American asbestos victims.

Background:  The executives of three companies -- vermiculate mine operator WR Grace, wallboard manufacturer USG and building materials company Owens Corning -- knew that asbestos exposure in their respective operations was killing their workers. When caught and sued, the companies filed for bankruptcy, agreeing to pay almost all of their earnings to the people who were dying and injured by their asbestos

But Singer had a better idea. These companies, as you can imagine, were worth next to nothing, and Singer bought Owens Corning for a song.

If he could cut the amount paid to the victims, Singer could boost Corning's value big time. So, a public relations campaign began, attacking the dying workers, saying they were all faking it.

One attacker was a guy named George W. Bush.

In January 2005, President Dubya held a televised meeting to promote an "expert" who pronounced that over half a million workers suing Singer's industry were liars. If workers couldn't breathe, he said to the grinning president, it wasn't the fault of asbestos.

The "expert" was not a doctor, but, notably, his "research" was partly funded by ... Paul Singer. And so was Bush. Since the death of Enron's Ken Lay, Singer and his vulture flock at Singer's hedge fund, Elliott International, had become the top contributors to the Republican National Committee. It's hard to measure his largess exactly because some of that help comes in through the side door. For example, Singer put money behind the Swift Boat smear on Bush's opponent, John Kerry.

The legal, political and public relations attacks on the dying workers chiseled away the compensation expected to be paid by the asbestos companies, boosting their net worth. Singer then flipped Corning, selling it for a neat billion-dollar profit.

It's legal. It's brilliant. It's sick. It's Singer....

The Gimme for Paul Singer

Paul Singer had placed a big bet on the asbestos industry, then, set out to fix the casino, helping install Bush in the White House. That is, he had a president willing to beat up on asbestos workers and push for so-called "tort reform" that undermined these victims' claims. What the victims lost, Singer gained.

But there's trouble on the horizon for Singer. In 2007, Britain outlawed Singer and all other Vulture speculators in Third World debt from collecting their pound of flesh in the United Kingdom. Other European nations are following suit.

Several US Congressmen are pushing a UK-style prohibition on Singer's activities. (Even Chevron Corporation is complaining about the Vulture attacks. When Chevron calls bankers unscrupulous, they've got to be really unscrupulous.) Without a veto pen over Congress, Singer stands to lose hundreds of millions of dollars.

Singer plays defense, but is best at offense: to collect on some of his claims against Argentina, his lobbyists have pushed a bill in Congress to put an economic chokehold on trade with the South American nation. Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blocked this crazy attack on our ally.  As a result, Singer is not a happy gaucho. There will be blood. Obama will have to pay.

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hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer (a major donor to Republican

vulture capitalist?  paid for CA GOPP power grab  Tom H resigns after busted

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<h2>Education and early career</h2>

Singer grew up in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> metropolitan area. He obtained a B.S. in psychology from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Rochester" title="University of Rochester">University of Rochester</a> and a J.D. from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Law_School" title="Harvard Law School">Harvard Law School</a>. Singer then spent the next four years working for corporate law firms in New York and the investment bank <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donaldson,Lufkin%26_Jenrette" title="Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette">Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer_%28businessman%29#cite_note-bloomberg-markets-1">[2]</a>

<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul_Singer_%28businessman%29&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Elliott Management">edit</a>] Elliott Management</h2>

In 1977, Singer founded Elliott Associates L.P., a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_fund" title="Hedge fund">hedge fund</a>, with [USD]$1.3 million from friends and family. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Management" title="Elliott Management" class="mw-redirect">Elliott Management</a> oversees Elliott Associates and Elliott International Limited, which together have more than $16 billion in assets under management.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer_%28businessman%29#cite_note-hoovers-2">[3]</a>

<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul_Singer_%28businessman%29&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Sovereign Debt">edit</a>] Sovereign Debt</h2>

Some of Elliott’s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distressed_securities" title="Distressed securities">distressed securities</a> trading has been in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_debt" title="Sovereign debt" class="mw-redirect">sovereign debt</a>, most recently those of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina" title="Argentina">Argentina</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo-Brazzaville" title="Congo-Brazzaville" class="mw-redirect">Congo-Brazzaville</a>, through its association with the 'Kensington International' fund. In 1995, Elliott bought $20 million face value of defaulted Peruvian bank debt. After extensive litigation proceedings Elliott won a court award of $58 million for these debts, including past due interest. More recently Elliott bought $32.6 million in loan debt incurred by Congo-Brazzaville, allegedly for less than $2.3 million.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer%28businessman%29#cite_note-3">[4]</a> In 2002 and 2003 a British Court awarded Elliott more than $100 million for these debts, $39 million of which was subsequently recouped by interception of proceeds of the sale of oil by the Congo to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glencore_International" title="Glencore International" class="mw-redirect">Glencore International</a>, a Swiss commodities and raw materials supplier.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer%28businessman%29#cite_note-4">[5]</a>

<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul_Singer_%28businessman%29&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Philanthropy">edit</a>] Philanthropy</h2>

Paul Singer founded the Paul E. Singer Family Foundation, which supports many charitable projects including the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Graduate_School_of_Education" title="Harvard Graduate School of Education">Harvard Graduate School of Education</a> Singer Prize for Excellence in Secondary Teaching and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VH1_Save_The_Music_Foundation" title="VH1 Save The Music Foundation" class="mw-redirect">VH1 Save The Music Foundation</a>, the Food Bank of New York City, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gay_and_Lesbian_Task_Force" title="National Gay and Lesbian Task Force">National Gay and Lesbian Task Force</a> Action Fund, and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Police_Foundation" title="New York City Police Foundation">New York City Police Foundation</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer%28businessman%29#cite_note-Harvard_Graduate_School_of_Education-5">[6]</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer%28businessman%29#cite_note-VHI_Save_the_Music_Foundation-6">[7]</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer%28businessman%29#cite_note-New_York_City_Police_Foundation-7">[8]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer%28businessman%29#cite_note-foodbank-8">[9]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer_%28businessman%29#cite_note-nyt-gay-9">[10]</a>

<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul_Singer_%28businessman%29&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Board Memberships">edit</a>] Board Memberships</h2>

Singer is Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Institute_for_Policy_Research" title="Manhattan Institute for Policy Research">Manhattan Institute for Policy Research</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer%28businessman%29#cite_note-Manhattan_Institute-10">[11]</a> He serves on the Board of Advisors of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Madison_Program_in_American_Ideals_and_Institutions" title="James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions">James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions</a> at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University" title="Princeton University">Princeton University</a> and the Board of Fellows of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Medical_School" title="Harvard Medical School">Harvard Medical School</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer%28businessman%29#cite_note-James_Madison_Program_in_American_Ideals_and_Institutions-11">[12]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer%28businessman%29#cite_note-hms-bof-12">[13]</a> He serves on the Board of Directors of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentary_Magazine" title="Commentary Magazine" class="mw-redirect">Commentary Magazine</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer%28businessman%29#cite_note-wsj-2010-13">[14]</a>

Singer is a member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Capital_Markets_Regulation" title="Committee on Capital Markets Regulation">Committee on Capital Markets Regulation</a>.

<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul_Singer_%28businessman%29&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Political activity">edit</a>] Political activity</h2>

Singer has been active in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party%28United_States%29" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party</a> politics and was a major contributor to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a>'s presidential campaigns.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer%28businessman%29#cite_note-2007nyt-14">[15]</a> In 2007, Singer led a financial industry fundraising effort for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_Giuliani" title="Rudolph Giuliani" class="mw-redirect">Rudolph Giuliani</a>, first as regional finance chair and later as senior policy adviser.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer%28businessman%29#cite_note-2008bloomberg-15">[16]</a>

In 2007, Singer provided $175,000 to support a petition drive for a proposed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_ballot_proposition" title="California ballot proposition">California initiative</a> to apportion the state's 55 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_votes" title="Electoral votes" class="mw-redirect">electoral votes</a> by congressional district. At least 19 of the state's 53 congressional districts could be expected to vote for a GOP presidential candidate, enough to change the national results in a close election.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer_%28businessman%29#cite_note-16">[17]</a>

President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> appointed Singer to serve on the Honorary Delegation to accompany him to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a> for the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Israel" title="State of Israel" class="mw-redirect">State of Israel</a> in May 2008.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer%28businessman%29#cite_note-17">[18]</a>

<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul_Singer_%28businessman%29&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Writings and Commentary">edit</a>] Writings and Commentary</h2>

Singer has written columns in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Journal" title="Wall Street Journal" class="mw-redirect">Wall Street Journal</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer%28businessman%29#cite_note-wsj-2010-13">[14]</a> In August 2009, fellow hedge fund manager <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Chanos" title="Jim Chanos" class="mw-redirect">Jim Chanos</a> said that he and Singer warned <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G7" title="G7">G7</a> finance ministers in 2007 that ‘a systemic financial collapse could happen because major banks were creating ‘radioactive’ securitizations from things like subprime mortgages.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer%28businessman%29#cite_note-g7-18">[19]</a>

At a September 2006 financial conference in New York City, Singer delivered a speech called "Complexity Made Simple", advising that the purchase of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateralized_debt_obligations" title="Collateralized debt obligations" class="mw-redirect">collateralized debt obligations</a> (CDOs) was a serious mistake, anticipating the collapse of the housing market by nearly a year.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer_%28businessman%29#cite_note-bloomberg-markets-1">[2]</a>

<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul_Singer_%28businessman%29&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a>] Notes</h2>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer_%28businessman%29#cite_ref-0">^</a> <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/110/110749.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Elliott Management Corporation Company Profile"</a>. Yahoo! Finance. <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/110/110749.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/110/110749.html</a>. Retrieved 2007-07-18. </li>

<li id="cite_note-bloomberg-markets-1">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer%28businessman%29#cite_ref-bloomberg-markets_1-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer%28businessman%29#cite_ref-bloomberg-markets_1-1">b</a> Kambiz Foroohar (February 2008). "The Opportunist". Bloomberg Markets. </li>

<li id="cite_note-hoovers-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer_%28businessman%29#cite_ref-hoovers_2-0">^</a> <a href="http://www.hoovers.com/company/Elliott_Management_Corporation/rrfkcsi-1.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Elliott Management Corporation"</a>. <a href="http://www.hoovers.com/company/Elliott_Management_Corporation/rrfkcsi-1.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.hoovers.com/company/Elliott_Management_Corporation/rrfkcsi-1.html</a>. </li>

<li id="cite_note-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer_%28businessman%29#cite_ref-3">^</a> <a href="http://www.thefrontiertelegraph.com/?p=103" class="external autonumber" rel="nofollow">[1]</a>, Vultures of Profit: Judgments Totaling $996M from 11 Countries, including Cameroun Republic, The Frontier Telegraph, June 24th, 2008</li>

<li id="cite_note-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer_%28businessman%29#cite_ref-4">^</a> <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a3rjgGqFgOCw" class="external autonumber" rel="nofollow">[2]</a>, Vulture Fund Founder Singer Helps Back Giuliani Bid (Update1), Bloomberg, January 8, 2008</li>

<li id="cite_note-Harvard_Graduate_School_of_Education-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer_%28businessman%29#cite_ref-Harvard_Graduate_School_of_Education_5-0">^</a> <a href="http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news_events/features/2007/05/31_singerprize.html" class="external autonumber" rel="nofollow">[3]</a>, "Harvard Awards the First Singer Prize", May 31, 2007</li>

<li id="cite_note-VHI_Save_the_Music_Foundation-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer_%28businessman%29#cite_ref-VHI_Save_the_Music_Foundation_6-0">^</a> <a href="http://www.vh1savethemusic.com/node/226" class="external autonumber" rel="nofollow">[4]</a>, "Dr. Shiela Johnson and Gordon Appointed to VHI Save the Music Foundation Board of Directors", March 19, 2007</li>

<li id="cite_note-New_York_City_Police_Foundation-7"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer_%28businessman%29#cite_ref-New_York_City_Police_Foundation_7-0">^</a> <a href="http://www.nycpolicefoundation.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=347" class="external autonumber" rel="nofollow">[5]</a>, "New York City Police Foundation Donors List", June 30, 2009</li>

<li id="cite_note-foodbank-8"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer_%28businessman%29#cite_ref-foodbank_8-0">^</a> <a href="http://www.foodbanknyc.org/go/news/can-do-2009-supporters" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Can-Do 2010 Supporters"</a>. <a href="http://www.foodbanknyc.org/go/news/can-do-2009-supporters" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.foodbanknyc.org/go/news/can-do-2009-supporters</a>. </li>

<li id="cite_note-nyt-gay-9"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer_%28businessman%29#cite_ref-nyt-gay_9-0">^</a> Eric Lichtblau (August 27, 2010). <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/28/us/politics/28singer.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Financier’s Largess Shows G.O.P.’s Wall St. Support"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times" title="New York Times" class="mw-redirect">New York Times</a>. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/28/us/politics/28singer.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/28/us/politics/28singer.html</a>. </li>

<li id="cite_note-Manhattan_Institute-10"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer_%28businessman%29#cite_ref-Manhattan_Institute_10-0">^</a> <a href="http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/trustees.htm" class="external autonumber" rel="nofollow">[6]</a>, "Manhattan Institute Trustees", 2010</li>

<li id="cite_note-James_Madison_Program_in_American_Ideals_and_Institutions-11"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer_%28businessman%29#cite_ref-James_Madison_Program_in_American_Ideals_and_Institutions_11-0">^</a> <a href="http://web.princeton.edu/sites/jmadison/people/council.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Advisors"</a>. 2008. <a href="http://web.princeton.edu/sites/jmadison/people/council.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://web.princeton.edu/sites/jmadison/people/council.html</a>. </li>

<li id="cite_note-hms-bof-12"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer_%28businessman%29#cite_ref-hms-bof_12-0">^</a> <a href="http://hms.harvard.edu/public/news/bof.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Board of Fellows"</a>. <a href="http://hms.harvard.edu/public/news/bof.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://hms.harvard.edu/public/news/bof.html</a>. </li>

<li id="cite_note-wsj-2010-13">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer%28businessman%29#cite_ref-wsj-2010_13-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer%28businessman%29#cite_ref-wsj-2010_13-1">b</a> Paul Singer (March 23, 2010). "The Dodd bill and U.S. Competitiveness". Wall Street Journal. </li>

<li id="cite_note-2007nyt-14"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer_%28businessman%29#cite_ref-2007nyt_14-0">^</a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/25/business/25hedge.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Hedge Fund Chiefs, With Cash, Join Political Fray"</a>. New York Times. January 25, 2007,. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/25/business/25hedge.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/25/business/25hedge.html</a>. </li>

<li id="cite_note-2008bloomberg-15"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer_%28businessman%29#cite_ref-2008bloomberg_15-0">^</a> <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a4zgFCkfsvcM&refer=us" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Romney Attracts More of Bush's Top Donors Than Rivals (Update2)"</a>. Bloomberg. July 20, 2007. <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a4zgFCkfsvcM&refer=us" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a4zgFCkfsvcM&refer=us</a>. </li>

<li id="cite_note-16"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer_%28businessman%29#cite_ref-16">^</a> Andrew Malcom, <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2007/09/breaking-news-g.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Giuliani fundraiser was mystery initiative backer"</a>, Los Angeles Times, November 28, 2007</li>

<li id="cite_note-17"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer_%28businessman%29#cite_ref-17">^</a> <a href="http://www.nysun.com/foreign/bush-visit-may-boost-olmert/76303/" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.nysun.com/foreign/bush-visit-may-boost-olmert/76303/</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-g7-18"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer_%28businessman%29#cite_ref-g7_18-0">^</a> <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/26/news/international/chanos_warning_g7.fortune/index.htm" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Chanos: G7 ignored crisis warning"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN" title="CNN">CNN</a>. August 26, 2009. <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/26/news/international/chanos_warning_g7.fortune/index.htm" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/26/news/international/chanos_warning_g7.fortune/index.htm</a>. </li>

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