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Sources: SEC Gearing Up For Insider-Trading Crackdown

Bloomberg | By Joshua Gallu and David Scheer | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

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Federal investigators are gearing up to file charges against a wider array of insider-trading networks, some linked to the criminal case against billi...

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Stopping Blackstone Coal

Bruce Nilles | Posted 08.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Blackstone, Coal, Sierra Club, Coal Ash, Toquop Coal, Desert Rock Coal, Coal Plant, Sithe Global, Renewable Energy, Beyond Coal Campaign, Green News
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Last week when we hit the 100th coal-fired plant abandoned or prevented in the U.S., someone asked me, "What's next?" My answer came quickly: "It's time to stop the next 100."

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Pete Peterson, Blackstone's Honcho, Roasts At The Four Seasons

New York Post | Posted 06.07.2009 | Business

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BLACKSTONE Group billionaire Pete Peterson commissioned professional help to roast Julian Niccolini and Alex von Bidder as they marked the 50th annive...

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Blackstone's Secrecy: Rejects SEC Request for Fund Data

bloomberg.com | Miles Weiss | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business

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March 30 (Bloomberg) -- Blackstone Group LP, the world's largest private-equity firm, rebuffed a request from securities regulators to publicly disclo...

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Stephen Schwarzman: 45 Percent Of World's Wealth Destroyed

Reuters | Megan Davies and Walden Siew | Posted 04.10.2009 | Business

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Private equity company Blackstone Group LP (BX.N) CEO Stephen Schwarzman said on Tuesday that up to 45 percent of the world's wealth has been destroye...

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Stephen Schwarzman Infuriated Over Blackstone Insider Trading Charge

New York Post | Paul Tharp | Posted 02.15.2009 | Business

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Stephen Schwarzman went ballistic yesterday over insider-trading charges leveled against one of his young Blackstone managing directors who allegedly ...

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Stephen Schwarzman And Bruce Wasserstein Spar At Fortune Breakfast

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 11.30.2008 | Business

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SCROLL DOWN FOR PHOTOS A powerful crowd turned out for Fortune's breakfast conversation with Stephen Schwarzman and Bruce Wasserstein Thursday mornin...

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The Tipping Point? Merger Deals Could Be Ray Of Hope

New York Times | Posted 11.29.2008 | Business

Read More: Finance, Economy, M&A, Blackstone, Apria, Mergers, Mergers and Acquisitions, Business News

Market observers are desperately trying to call a bottom in the stock market, but something more dynamic is happening in the M&A market. The events o...

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SEC Charges Trader With Profiting From False Rumors

AP | Christopher S. Rugaber | Posted 05.02.2008 | Business

Read More: Paul Berliner, Blackstone, Alliance Data Systems, Business News

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday charged a Wall Street trader with spreading lies about Blackstone Group's attempted purchase of All...

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Blackstone Co-Founder Peterson On Wealth, McCain, And Fiscal Responsibility

Portfolio | Lloyd Grove | Posted 04.02.2008 | Business

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Peter G. Peterson is a man of parts: leveraged-buyout billionaire, policy wonk, social lion, and--most recently--the patron of an ambitious new founda...

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Blackstone's Schwarzman Makes $5.13B

AP | JOE BEL BRUNO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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NEW YORK — Stephen Schwarzman is Wall Street's $5.13 billion man. That's how much money the co-founder of private equity shop Blackstone Group ...

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Steve Schwarzman, Big Spender

Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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Just as Blackstone was posting a $170 million loss for its fourth quarter, co-founder Stephen Schwarzman announced he was donating $100 million to the...

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Blackstone Posts 4Q Loss of $170 Million

AP | STEPHEN BERNARD | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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NEW YORK — Private equity firm Blackstone Group LP said Monday it swung to a loss during the fourth quarter due to a write-down on its investmen...

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Steve Schwarzman Tells Bronx Kids Good Grades Are Over-Rated

Dealbreaker | John Carney | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: The Wire, Blackstone, Billionaires, Sacred Heart School, Steve Schwarzman, Stephen A. Schwarzman, Business News

"How do you get from here to the rest of the world?" The question is one of the most heart-breaking moments on this season of the Wire. It's asked of...

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Blackstone to Banks: We Don't Need You

Portfolio | Felix Salmon | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Blackstone, Banks, Wall Street, Business News

Blackstone has decided to disintermediate its banks when it comes to raising money for leveraged loans. Hell, Blackstone is a bank, I'm just surprised...

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Ten Smartest CEO Moves Of 2007

Portfolio | Liz Gunnison | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Blackstone, Pete Peterson, Lloyd Blankfein, Rex Tillerson, Jack Weil, Nintendo, Exxon Mobil, Michael Dell, Angelo Mozilo, Steve Schwarzman, Rockmount Ranch Wear, Richard Grasso, Dell Computers, Chrysler, Goldman Sachs, Satoru Iwata, Apple, Countrywide, Robert Nardelli, Nyse, Steve Jobs, Business News

The bottom has dropped out of the banking business, brokerages are floundering, home foreclosures are soaring, and the threat of recession looms. What...

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Blackstone Denies Bidding For Rio Tinto

Fox Business | Sue Chang | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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Blackstone Group said Monday it is not involved in the bidding process for U.K. mining company Rio Tinto in either an investment or advisory role. The...

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Director Protests, Screens Film Outside Home Of Financier Kravis

New York Times | Andrew Ross Sorkin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: War on Greed, Upper East Side, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Luxury Homes, Blackstone, Roger & Me, Robert Greenwald, Kravis Protest, Blackstone Group, Stephen Schwarzman, Stephen A. Schwarzman, Henry Kravis, Business News

Bells will be ringing, and carolers will be greeting the Upper East Side neighbors of Henry Kravis this morning. It may be Christmastime, but the rev...

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How Blackstone's Steve Schwarzman Can Improve His Image

New York Times | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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Nearly five months after the Blackstone Group went public, Stephen A. Schwarzman finally spoke out in defense of his firm and the private equity indus...

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Stephen Schwarzman Does Not Love Family As Much As He Loves Himself, Crabs

Dealbreaker.com | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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Stephen Schwarzman threw his son Teddy and new daughter Ellen a lavish Jamaican wedding last weekend blah blah blah $20,000 barbecue blah blah blah$8,...

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