The Republican candidate has accepted donations from
controversial hedge-fund billionaire John Paulson, but Thursday night he made
their association more explicit by allowing Paulson to host a fundraiser, The
Daily Beast’s Ben Jacobs reports. Mitt
Romney held a high-dollar fundraiser Thursday night at the home of John
Paulson, the controversial hedge-fund billionaire who made a fortune shorting
the housing market and subprime mortgages in 2007.
New York grocery billionaire John Catsimatidis told The
Daily Beast the fundraiser, at Paulson’s posh townhouse at 9 East 86th Street
on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, was a “big-dollar event” for wealthy
donors like himself “fighting for the soul of America.” The Romney campaign did
not return requests for information about the fundraiser—which was not listed
on the candidate’s public schedule. Paulson’s publicist, Armel Leslie, also did
not return calls seeking comment.
A neighbor who witnessed the event from across the street
described it to The Daily Beast as a large crowd of “older white people, mostly
men,” who started showing up around 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Around 8 p.m., sirens
started blaring as more and more people started to show. There was security at
the door as well as a police car on the street.
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