Sentences with phrase «funding by billionaire»

Gutting of school funding by billionaire backed political hacks like Walker can be extremely upsetting to teachers who devote their lives to helping children.

New York Global Citizen Festival concert in Central Park, funded by billionaire Sumner Redstone for $ 1.5 million, and headlined by Neil Young.

According to the New Yorker, The Mercatus Center was first founded and funded by the billionaire conservative Koch Brothers, and the small think tank advocates environmental deregulation.

Chelsea and Mourinho on the other hand... People are neglecting the fact that he inherited a billion dollar squad funded by a billionaire manager, not by actual success earned by the team.

The Alliance, based in downstate New York, is an entity funded by billionaire philanthropist George Soros.

The campaign against, which is funded by billionaires, is more than enough to offset multi-national companies.

ALBANY — A recent mailer accusing an Assembly candidate of misogyny was funded by a billionaire real estate investor, adding to recent criticisms about the role of developer money in next Tuesday's special election in Brooklyn.

The Drug Policy Alliance, a nonprofit focused on ending the so - called war on drugs, is funded by billionaire George Soros and does not endorse candidates.

To support the California Teachers Union in its fight to preserve due process and seniority rights in a lawsuit brought against it by an organization funded by a billionaire conservative activist;

It is funded by billionaire Nathan Myhrvold, former chief technology officer of Microsoft and a longtime Hillis pal.

These talking points, which are largely false, typically involve spouting nonsense about charters being corporate (they are, repeat after me, slowly and with feeling, public schools), funded by billionaires, or adhere to strict disciplinary policies.

They are funded by billionaires out to bankrupt the unions and take over LA Unified.

Then there is the «Advancement Project,» a group heavily funded by billionaire globalist George Soros which has ties to various teachers unions.

One of those powerful advocates, nationally and in Tennessee, is the influential Americans for Prosperity, the right - wing issue group started and funded by the billionaire Charles and David Koch brothers.

Funded by billionaires and arrayed against unions, it is increasingly contesting for power in city halls and statehouses...

CCSS is simply a corporate corruption sucker scam secretly funded by billionaires to rob tax payers of billions of dollars and rob children of their future.

In addition to their connection with Gary Solomon's company, both Garth Harries and Steven Adamowski «graduated» from the Broad Academy, a corporate education reform training camp funded by billionaire Eli Broad, whose foundation is one of the three biggest funders of the Corporate Education Reform Industry.

Harries received his «superintendent training» as a member of the 2009 class of the Broad Academy, the corporate education reform foundation that is funded by billionaire Eli Broad who is one of the three largest donors behind the education reform movement, along with Bill Gates and the Walton Family of Wal - Mart fame.

She was criticising David Rose's article, and yet the organisation in the USA, which she is a director of, is a beneficiary of the foundation, funded by billionaires such as the Hewletts, Packards, and so on.

Interestingly, many of the organizing groups behind this event have been heavily funded by billionaire George Soros.

A pro-Trump super PAC funded by the billionaire Mercer family used Cambridge Analytica to help it generate millions of views for dark posted Facebook ads that aggressively attacked Hillary Clinton during the fall of 2016.

Not exact matches

April 11 (Reuters)- Paulson & Co, the hedge fund firm led by billionaire investor John Paulson, has taken a stake in Viacom Inc as the U.S. media company has started to turn around its business, Paulson told Reuters in an interview.

April 11 - Paulson & Co, the hedge fund firm led by billionaire investor John Paulson, has taken a stake in Viacom Inc as the U.S. media company has started to turn around its business, Paulson told Reuters in an interview.

But now it has become obvious that there is a billionaire who is committed to a long - term campaign to wipe out Gawker by funding lawsuits.

After a report by Forbes, which the New York Times eventually corroborated, billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel gave the NYT an interview in which he admitted to helping fund Hogan's legal case.

• Kanye West Tweets About Starting VC Fund, Meeting With Billionaire Peter Thiel (by Polina Marinova)

Citadel is a Chicago headquartered hedge fund manager, founded by billionaire Kenneth Griffin in 1990.

Summary: A U.S. attorney played by Paul Giamatti goes up against a billionaire hedge fund manager, played by Damian Lewis.

An investment fund controlled by billionaire George Soros has acquired a once high - flying enterprise technology company.

But that's not quite true, according to research released today from Just Capital, an independent non-profit co-founded in 2014 by billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones II, Arianna Huffington, and Deepak Chopra.

The funding round was led by DST Global, the investment vehicle of Russian billionaire Yuri Milner who was an early investor of Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, and Airbnb, among others.

So says a massive survey of Americans undertaken by billionaire hedge funder Paul Tudor Jones II

The sometimes - activist hedge fund, founded by billionaire Barry Rosenstein, also said it owns about 593,000 shares of Sprouts, which earlier this year held preliminary talks to be taken private by Cerberus Capital Management and merged with its Albertsons Cos. brand, people familiar with the matter said at the time.

The $ 75 million facility was funded in part through donations by its namesake as well as fellow Canadian billionaire Bernard Sherman's Apotex.

Shortly after Caspersen's arrest, The Moore Charitable Foundation, an environmental charity founded by hedge fund billionaire Louis Bacon, confirmed it was a victim.

Nowadays, the top donor to Ryan's leadership PAC is Elliot Management, a hedge fund run by billionaire Paul Singer.

That puts China well ahead of the U.S. in launching CRISPR trials; the first one in America, which will be conducted at the University of Pennsylvania and is being funded by tech billionaire Sean Parker, isn't set to begin until early 2017.

April 11 - Paulson & Co, the hedge fund firm led by billionaire investor John Paulson, has taken a stake in Viacom Inc as the U.S. media company has started to turn around its business amid a challenging landscape, Paulson told Reuters in an interview.

Regardless, the study has begun well ahead of the first planned American CRISPR trials, which won regulatory clearance earlier this year (and are being funded by tech billionaire Sean Parker) but are unlikely to begin until 2017 at the University of Pennsylvania.

The news comes about two weeks after Bloomberg reported https://bloom.bg/2qYzgnh that Elliott, the New York hedge fund run by billionaire Paul Singer, had built a position in Micro Focus and plans to push for changes at the company.

The latest boost is the plan backed by top business leaders, including billionaire tech investors Bill Gates and Jack Ma, to set up a $ 1 billion fund for the development of innovative energy technologies.

Hedge funds run by billionaires Carl Icahn and John Paulson reaped the biggest profits the day Donald Trump was officially declared the winner of the presidential election.

DST Global, an investment company created by the Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, funneled hundreds of millions into Facebook and Twitter, but the funds came from two government - controlled financial institutions.

Others spend big bucks to pull off elaborate multi-day affairs, such as the planned three - day New York celebration for 83 - year old billionaire investor George Soros starting Friday that will be attended by more than 500 guests, including hedge fund titans and prominent political leaders.

Buffett, a billionaire investor and outspoken critic of fund managers who profit from high fees at the expense of their clients, bet in 2007 that a Vanguard S&P 500 index fund would beat five funds of hedge funds selected by Protégé Partners over the next 10 years.

New York - headquartered Elliott Management Corp was founded by U.S. billionaire Paul Singer and manages two funds with combined assets under management of about $ 35 billion.

Other well - funded buyout firms such as OTA Broadcasting LLC backed by billionaire Michael Dell and NRJ TV LLC, funded by Fortress Investment Group, have also snatched up TV stations in the run - up to the auction.

The fund will work with the public sector portion of Koch Industries, run by billionaire and Republican mega-donors Charles and David Koch, to help navigate public policy and regulatory law.

Russia has banned a charity founded by hedge fund billionaire George Soros, saying it posed a threat to state security and the Russian constitution.

Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel said in May he helped fund the invasion of the privacy lawsuit filed by Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea.