Henry Kravis

Fledgling Effort To Force Wealthy Super PAC Donors Out Into The Open Is Underway

The New Republic | Alec MacGillis | Posted 03.29.2012

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Thanks to Citizens United and other recent rulings, the nation’s ultra-wealthy have a lot more latitude than they did a few years ago when it comes ...

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Son of the Fonz Makes Comedy From Pain

Erica Abeel | Posted 06.06.2011

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Despite the old plot chestnut of crashing a wedding, Ceremony feels quirky and heart-felt. It fashions comedy from, one suspects, the filmmaker's pain, creating a direct pipeline from life to screen.

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Joseph Flom: A Legal Warrior Who Revolutionized Wall Street

Robert Lenzner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Skadden Arps, Wachtell Lipton, Takeovers, Ron Perelman, Henry Kravis, Business News

An aggressive, down-to-earth legal warrior, Joseph Flom helped the investment banking fraternity effect unfriendly takeovers in the race to grow by acquisition in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Henry Kravis Gives $100 Million To Columbia Business School

WSJ | Shelly Banjo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Famed investor Henry Kravis has pledged $100 million to Columbia University's Business School, the largest gift in the school's history. The donati...

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Closing Tax Loopholes for Billionaires

Robert Reich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Wall Street, Hedge Funds, Paul Allen, Tax Loopholes, Tax Evaders, Capital Gains, Billionaires, Tax Evasion, Private Equity Funds, Henry Kravis, Business News

Call me old fashioned but I just think it's wrong that a single hedge fund manager earns a billion dollars, when a billion dollars would pay the salaries of about 20,000 teachers.

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Henry R. Kravis Gives New York Philharmonic $10 Million Donation

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — The New York Philharmonic says it will receive a $10 million gift from philanthropist Henry R. Kravis to endow its composer-in-reside...

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New Breed Of "Mega-Bundlers" Supercharged Campaign Finance

Wall Street Journal | BRODY MULLINS and IANTHE JEANNE DUGAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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Through Oct. 15, the two presidential candidates had raised a total of $350 million in their joint fund-raising accounts, about equally. In 2004, Pres...

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Kohlberg Kravis IPO Coming, But It's Not Your Typical IPO

Wall Street Journal | Dennis K. Berman and Peter Lattman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Today, its plan for an initial public offering reflects the troubled times roiling the investment industry: KKR is selling the shares in part to take ...

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Lewis Black "Rants" Against Henry Kravis, Takeover Giant

WSJ.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Leveraged Buyout, LBO, Kkr, Lewis Black, Henry Kravis, Video, Business News

Henry Kravis is giving Steve Schwarzman a run for his money -- at least when it comes to public vilification. Henry KravisThe Service Employees Inter...

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Robin Hood Gala Raises More Than $56.5 Million In One Night

Bloomberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sheryl Crow, John Legend, Henry Kravis, Davd Saltzman, Shakira, Arthur Samberg, Robin Hood Foundation, Business News

The Robin Hood Foundation's annual gala, which collects millions of dollars from hedge-fund managers and gives it to New York charities, raised more t...

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KKR In Credit Crunch

New York Post | ZACHERY KOUWE | Posted 05.25.2011

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Even the barbarians didn't think the credit crisis would last this long. A firm affiliated with leveraged buyout giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.,...

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On MLK Day, Filmmaker Takes Private Equity To Task

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Film, Martin Luther King, Brave New Films, Kkr, Gunite Plant, Private Equity, Robert Greenwald, Henry Kravis, Rockford, Video, Politics News

In honor of Martin Luther King Day, filmmaker Robert Greenwald has released a sharp new short film on his topic-de-jour: the excesses of the private e...

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Director Protests, Screens Film Outside Home Of Financier Kravis

New York Times | Andrew Ross Sorkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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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