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Sources: SEC Gearing Up For Insider-Trading Crackdown

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

Read More: Arlen Specter, Federal Investigations, Insider Trading, Investigations, Raj Rajaratnam, Bradley Bennett, Terrorism, Sri Lanka, Robert Khuzami, Regulation, Rajaratnam, Blackstone, Investigation, Blackstone Group, Wall Street, Hedge Funds, Arthur Samburg, Sec, Galleon Group, Preet Bharara, Baker Botts, Business News

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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1,000 Banks Could Fail In Next Two Years: John Kanas (VIDEO)

Posted 09.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank Failure, Banks, John Kanas, Fdic, WL Ross, Private Equity, Bankunited, Blackstone Group, Business News

Up to 1,000 banks could fail in the next two years, private equity chief John Kanas told CNBC in a recent appearance. Kanas' high-powered private equi...

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Campaign Contributions May Be Linked To Pension Fund Deals

usatoday.com | Kevin McCoy | Posted 09.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Corruption, Quadrangle, Sec, Steven Rattner, Blackstone Group, Caryly Group, Pension Funds, Business News

More than two dozen firms that have surfaced in a broad corruption investigation of public pension funds gave at least $1.97 million in campaign contr...

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Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman Tops U.S. CEO Payroll

Reuters | Posted 09.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Top Paid CEO, Best Paid CEO, Blackstone Group, Stephen Schwarzman, Business News

BOSTON (Reuters) - Taking his private equity firm public paid off big for Blackstone Group LP's Stephen Schwarzman, who became the top-paid chief exec...

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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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Financial Times Sues Billionaire Schwarzman For Sharing Single $300 Online Subscription With Office

New York Post | KAJA WHITEHOUSE | Posted 03.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Schwarzman Financial Times Lawsuit, Steve Schwarzman, Financial TImes, Blackstone Group, Media News

Poor Steve Schwarzman. The billionaire buyout king, made infamous for his million-dollar birthday party two years ago and a penchant for $40 crab leg...

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Beacons of Hope Glimmer in Dark Financial Times

Vicky Ward | Posted 07.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Lincoln Center, Multiple Sclerosis, David Koch, Philanthropy, Charity, Economy, Blackstone Group, Charity Organizations, Donating to Charity, Living News
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Just as our billionaires still go on their boats, so also, in New York, often criticized by outsiders for its shallowness and greed, authentic gestures of friendship and generosity endure.

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Power List: The Most Powerful Private Equity Firms

Fortune | Posted 05.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Private Equity, Blackstone Group, Carlyle Group, Business News

The Carlyle Group: 2008 Rank: 1 2007 Rank: 3 Recent buyout fundraising: $39 billion With 1,000-plus employees, 34 offices spread across every contin...

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Blackstone Gets Billions Despite More Losses

NY Post | Posted 05.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Steve Schwarzman, Blackstone Group, Stephen Schwarzman, Business News

Despite his recently failed deals and huge new losses, Wall Street is starting to throw even more billions at Steve Schwarzman and his Blackstone Grou...

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

Portfolio | Lloyd Grove | Posted 04.02.2008 | Business

Read More: Billionaires, Blackstone, Pete Peterson, McCann Erickson, Peter Peterson, Pete Peterson Blackstone, Blackstone Group, Stephen Schwarzman, Business News

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

Read More: Stephen Schwarzman, Stephen Schwarzman Salary, Stephen Schwarzman Billionaire, Billionaires, Blackstone, Blackstone Group, Business News

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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Private Equity Moguls See Fortunes Plummet

New York Times | MICHAEL J. de la MERCED | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Investment Banking, U.S. Economy, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Wall Street, Private Equity Moguls, Recession Fears, Recession, Homeowners, Private Equity, Butout Firms, Investments, Blackstone Group, Business News

With their big paydays and bigger egos, private equity moguls came to symbolize an era of hyper-wealth on Wall Street. Now their fortunes are plummet...

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Top 10 Worst Business Deals

Time | Bill Saporito | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Harman, Microsoft, Och-Ziff Capital Management, Everquest Financial IPO, John Snow, Abu Dhabi, Fortress Investment Group, Facebook, Cerberus, Blackstone Group, Goldman Sachs, DaimlerChrysler, Countrywide, Citibank, J.C. Flowers, Countrywide Financial, Mark Zuckerberg, Sallie Mae, Bear Stearns, United Rentals, KKR, Business News

#1. The Public Invests in Blackstone Group It was only a matter of time before the private equity firms let the public in on the game -- for an infla...

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Blackstone Denies Bidding For Rio Tinto

Fox Business | Sue Chang | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Blackstone, Rio Tinto, Blackstone Group, Business News

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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