Morrison needn't have worried about the reactions of his Disciples readers and
financial backers —
whose opinion concerned him profoundly since the journal still operated tenuously, almost from issue to issue.
Still, LPCiminelli,
whose chairman and chief executive, Louis P. Ciminelli, is a
financial backer of Mr. Cuomo's, was ultimately selected to construct the SolarCity factory.
Werritty, the group's UK director, was funded by a raft of powerful businessmen including Michael Hintze, one of the Tories biggest
financial backers whose hedge fund, CQS, has investments in companies that have contracts with the Ministry of Defence; Poju Zabludowicz, chairman of the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, who chairs a US munitions company; and the Good Governance Group, a private security firm set up by a South African businessman, Andries Pienaar, who also has an investment firm, C5 Capital, focused on the defence sector.