Politico’s Hadas Gold and Kenneth Vogel uncovered a bombshell story today. It turns out the Clinton camp paid big money to have negative stories about the former first couple killed. As Gold and Vogel note, Avenue Capital, a hedge fund controlled by Clinton pal Marc Lasry, may have exerted financial pressure on the infamous National Enquirer to ensure the magazine’s silence. Gold and Vogel outline several alleged instances:
The donor, hedge fund billionaire Marc Lasry, “has been helpful on a number of fronts,” according to the memo, which was written by longtime Clinton aide Doug Band in Nov. 2011, including “killing potential unfavorable stories in the Enquirer.”
At the time the memo was written, Lasry’s hedge fund, Avenue Capital Group, owned some of the $513 million in debt accrued by the Enquirer’s publisher, American Media, Inc., and Band’s memo asserts Avenue “owns a controlling share of the debt.”
At this point, does anything surprise you?
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