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Romney's top donor: Goldman Sachs, Ron Paul's top donor: US Army
Milwaukee Story ^ | 1.2.12 | Andy Booker
Posted on Monday, January 02, 2012 10:06:05 AM by packback
Mitt Romney's top ten is made up of Goldman Sachs, followed by Credit Suisse (Switzerland), Morgan Stanley, Barclays (UK), Bank of America and JP Morgan. In contrast Romney's co-frontrunner in Iowa, Ron Paul, has a top three donor list made up of the US Army, US Navy and US Airforce.
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cid=N00000286
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Mitt Romney 2008
| $235,275 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Citigroup Inc | $178,450 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Merrill Lynch | $176,125 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Morgan Stanley | $170,350 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lehman Brothers | $154,800 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UBS AG | $125,150 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| JPMorgan Chase & Co | $123,800 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bain & Co | $121,475 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Marriott International | $121,150 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bain Capital | $118,550 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kirkland & Ellis | $111,700 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Villages | $110,900 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit Suisse Group | $104,900 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Compuware Corp | $103,550 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Huron Consulting | $102,050 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PricewaterhouseCoopers | $92,250 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| American Financial Group | $87,550 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Affiliated Managers Group | $82,112 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cerberus Capital Management | $79,450 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sun Capital Partners http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000071 Excerpt: Citigroup IncCitigroup is one of the world’s largest financial services firms. But like most other financial institutions, the company suffered huge losses and had to appeal to the federal government in 2008 for billions of dollars of taxpayer money to help it stay afloat. One of the company’s subsidiaries was brokerage firm Salomon Smith Barney, which was plagued with lawsuits and government investigations into its financing of bankrupt Enron and ailing WorldCom. In 1998, Citigroup’s lobbying helped repeal a federal law that prevented banks from getting into other businesses, allowing the company to acquire an insurance firm and part of a package of lax regulations that has been blamed for the country’s economic collapse. Citigroup continues to lobby on a number of issues, including financial privacy, bankruptcy reform and terrorism reinsurance. Contribution Trends, 1990-2012 [View Totals] Top Contributors, 1990-2012
Lobbying Totals, 1998-2011 Lobbying Stats, 2011
Party Split, 1990-2012 Top Recipients, 2011-2012
Average Contributions to Members of Congress, 1990-2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/America-West-Holdings-Corporation-company-History.html
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Nevertheless, a one-fifth stake in America West was purchased by Ansett Airlines, an Australian company half-owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajat_Gupta
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In his capacity at McKinsey, Gupta was recognized as the first Indian-born CEO of a global corporation. After retiring from active practice, while maintaining an affiliation at McKinsey, Gupta served as corporate chairman, board director or strategic advisor to a variety of large and notable organizations (full list): corporations including Goldman Sachs, Procter and Gamble and American Airlines, and non-profits including The Gates Foundation, The Global Fund and the International Chamber of Commerce. Rajat Gupta is additionally the co-founder of four different organizations: the Indian School of Business with Anil Kumar, the American India Foundation with Victor Menezes and Lata Krishnan, New Silk Route with Parag Saxena and Menezes again, and Scandent with Ramesh Vangal.
On October 26, 2011, Gupta was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on charges of securities fraud and conspiracy as part of an ongoing and wide-ranging insider trading case in which Gupta's close associates Raj Rajaratnam and Anil Kumar were convicted and pled guilty, respectively. The Securities and Exchange Commission sued Gupta the same day. Gupta entered a plea of not guilty and was released on $10 million bail. Previously, from March to August 2011, the SEC had filed administrative suit against Gupta, been countersued by Gupta, and then dropped those charges.
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/tag/rajat-k-gupta/
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