Friday, June 15, 2012

Wall Street’s Donation Dollars: Citadel's Griffin Backs Romney



Finalternatives reports that hedge fund zillionaire Ken Griffin raised thousands for both Barack Obama and John McCain in 2008 but this year he’s not hedging his bets: he’s going all or nothing on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

The founder of the $13 billion Citadel Investment Group and his hedge-fund manager wife Anne Dias Griffin co-sponsored a $3.3 million Chicago fund-raiser for Romney at Chicago's Pump Room on Thursday.

“There are a number of Barack Obama fund-raiser types from four years ago that have come over now to help with Mitt Romney,” Illinois State Treasurer Dan Rutherford told the Chicago Sun-Times outside fund-raiser….

Read more at http://www.finalternatives.com/node/20794

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