Avenue Capital's Lasry will not be ambassador to France -source
YORK, April 23 (Reuters) - Billionaire Marc Lasry told investors in his Avenue Capital that he will remain at the hedge fund and not become the next U.S ambassador to France, according to a person...
View ArticleUPDATE 2-Avenue Capital's Lasry will not be ambassador to France -source
tapped to be a U.S. ambassador, declined to comment. A longtime Democratic donor with close ties to former President Bill Clinton, Lasry was considered the front-runner to be nominated by President...
View ArticleHedge-Fund Manager Ends Talk of French Posting
big fundraiser for President Barack Obama, had been widely considered to be the top candidate for the post. Former President Bill Clinton in mid-March had told guests at fundraising events that Mr....
View ArticleLasry Out of the Running for Ambassador to France
a letter at the time. Speculation surrounding Mr. Lasry reached a pitch when Politico published a report suggesting that Bill Clinton had revealed that the hedge fund manager had been offered the...
View ArticlePoker Case Led to Lasry’s Withdrawal
being grilled about the ring. “It’s not that he committed a crime, but it opens a can of worms,” a source said. In mid-March, Bill Clinton, a close friend of Lasry, said at a fund-raiser that Lasry was...
View ArticleReport: Lasry drops out after ties to gambling ring questioned
to comment on the Post report or provide further details. Lasry, founder and CEO of Avenue Capital, was a top donor to Hillary Clinton and then transferred his largesse to Obama, raising more than...
View ArticleParis is open! Update those resumes.
to France is now open. Marc Lasry, a Manhattan mega-bundler and contributor to President Obama — and before that to Bill Clinton — dropped out of the running, Reuters reported on Tuesday. Lasry had...
View ArticleMarc Lasry's troubled path to Paris
Spogli, former U.S. Ambassador to Italy FORTUNE -- Earlier this week, hedge fund manager Marc Lasry declined President Obama's request to be nominated as the next U.S. ambassador to France. Today the...
View ArticleMarc Lasry: poker costs Barack Obama his next ambassador to Paris
that his decision to withdraw was for business reasons and had nothing to do with the investigation. But in the partisan world of Washington politics, Mr Lasry's connections to the accused could have...
View ArticleCounterparties: America persists in underwhelming
spends on scientific research has been steadily declining – Reuters Yikes Ties to a Russian mob-run poker ring may have cost Marc Lasry the ambassadorship to France – NY Post And, of course, there are...
View ArticleShrewd poker player
editor Anna Wintour is once again rumored to snag an ambassadorship to France, now that Marc Lasry has been forced to withdraw over his lack of “hedging” his bets with a poker ring allegedly run by the...
View ArticleLasry drops out of running for ambassadorship
Department Photo) Marc Lasry, a Manhattan mega-bundler and contributor to President Obama — and before that to former President Bill Clinton — dropped out of the running last week for that fine...
View ArticleObama’s historic mistake
bipartisan support. Lasry folds Marc Lasry , a Manhattan mega-bundler and contributor to President Obama — and before that to Bill Clinton — dropped out of the running last week for that fine...
View ArticleAnna Wintour: The ambassador wears Prada?
was looking at a woman to be the next ambassador to France. If so, it seems the job would be Vogue Editor in Chief Anna Wintour ’s for the asking. The New York Post reported that Wintour, who had been...
View ArticleMartha, Anna and Ellie: mag mavens honored
Awards — and while New York and National Geographic grabbed high honors, it was the awards handed to Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour and Martha Stewart that generated the most buzz. On the digital...
View ArticleBernanke suddenly no friend to big bond funds
U.S. bond market, lost approximately 2.58 percent over the same time frame. Bond managers have been well aware of the risks. Bill Gross, who is often referred to as the "bond king" for his role as...
View ArticleIBM heiress said in the mix for Paris post
Posted at 03:15 PM ET, 07/02/2013 Jul 02, 2013 07:15 PM EDT TheWashingtonPost (Bertrand Guay - AFP/Getty Images) Increasing chatter that IBM heiress and philanthropist Jane Stetson , former Democratic...
View ArticleIn Kabul, it’s a very early Fourth of July
Getting ready to celebrate the Fourth of July on the Mall? Worried about all the traffic, the crowds, the heat, the potential thunderstorms? Then perhaps you should follow the example of the U.S....
View ArticleCasino gambling craps out
$1.38 billion. The declines are bad news for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, as well as hedge-fund heavy hitters including Carl Icahn and Marc Lasry, whose Avenue Capital is an investor in Trump...
View ArticleHoughton Mifflin close to IPO after emerging from bankruptcy -sources
2012, giving its lenders and bondholders 100 percent equity in the company. Paulson & Co, Apollo Management Holdings LP and Marc Lasry's Avenue Capital Group were among members of a creditor group...
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