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VideoJournalist: Mark Pittman
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James Mark Pittman (October 25, 1957 – November 25, 2009) was a financial journalist covering corporate finance and derivative markets. He was awarded several prestigious journalism awards, the Gerald Loeb Award, the George Polk Award, a New York Press Club award, the Hillman Prize and several New York Associated Press awards.
Pittman was born in Kansas City, Kansas. Standing 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m), he was a linebacker and first baseman on his high school teams. Continue reading “Journalist: Mark Pittman”
Lawyer: Harvey Pitt
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Harvey L. Pitt (born February 28, 1945) is an American lawyer who served as the 26th chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), from 2001 to 2003..
Pitt graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1961. He graduated from Brooklyn College with a bachelor’s degree in 1965, and from St. John’s University School of Law with a JD degree in 1968. Continue reading “Lawyer: Harvey Pitt”
Journalist: Floyd Norris
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Floyd Norris (born September 6, 1947 Los Angeles) was[1] chief financial correspondent of The New York Times and International Herald Tribune.[2] He wrote a regular column on the stock market for the Times, plus a blog..
Norris attended University of California, Irvine, then was a Walter Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia University, where he received an MBA in 1982. Continue reading “Journalist: Floyd Norris”
Journalist: Bethany McLean
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Bethany McLean (born December 12, 1970) is an American journalist and contributing editor for Vanity Fair magazine. She is known for her writing on the Enron scandal and the 2008 financial crisis. Previous assignments include editor-at-large, columnist for Fortune and a contributor to Slate..
McLean started her career as an investment banking analyst for Goldman Sachs and joined Vanity Fair as a contributing editor in 2008.[citation needed] She began as a contributor to “Slate’s” Moneybox column, in 2010 and “The Bulldog” column in “Fortune”. Continue reading “Journalist: Bethany McLean”
CEO: Jonathan E. Johnson
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Jonathan “JJ” Johnson is an American business executive, currently serving as the CEO for Overstock.com. He was a candidate for the Republican nomination in the 2016 Utah gubernatorial election..
Following his graduation, Johnson worked as a clerk for Utah Supreme Court Justice Leonard H. Russon Continue reading “CEO: Jonathan E. Johnson”
Journalist: Byron Christopher
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Byron Christopher (born May 1, 1949) is a Canadian news reporter from Campbellton, New Brunswick. His style of work has been referred to as “Armageddon-like blood-and-guts crime reporting”.[.
Christopher has filed stories across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, with most of his journalistic career focused on Western Canada, often reporting on criminal justice. During the two decades that he worked for The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and for 630 CHED, he won national awards for both his print and radio journalism. Continue reading “Journalist: Byron Christopher”
Subject: William Binney
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William Binney is a former intelligence official with the United States National Security Agency (NSA)[4] and whistleblower. He retired on October 31, 2001, after more than 30 years with the agency..
He was a critic of his former employers during the George W. Bush administration, and later criticized the NSA’s data-collection policies during the Barack Obama administration. He dissented from the view that Russia interfered with the 2016 US election. More specifically, he was critical of the view that Russia hacked the DNC server. Continue reading “Subject: William Binney”
President: Barack Obama
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Barack Hussein Obama II born August 4, 1961) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004..
Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. After graduating from Columbia University in 1983, he worked as a community organizer in Chicago. In 1988, he enrolled in Harvard Law School, where he was the first black person to be president of the Harvard Law Review. Continue reading “President: Barack Obama”
Lawyer: Joe Nocera
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Joseph Nocera (born May 6, 1952) is an American business journalist and author. He writes about sports at The New York Times where he previously wrote about business and was a columnist for the newspaper’s Op-Ed page. Nocera is also a business commentator for NPR’s Weekend Edition and, as of January 2017, for Bloomberg View..
In the late 1970s he was an editor at The Washington Monthly. In the 1980s, he was an editor at Newsweek; an executive editor of New England Monthly; and a senior editor at Texas Monthly. Continue reading “Lawyer: Joe Nocera”
Banker: John J. Mack
Banker, PeopleJohn J. Mack (born November 17, 1944) is a Senior Advisor to the investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and the former CEO & Chairman of the Board at Morgan Stanley, the New York-based investment bank and brokerage firm..
Mack worked at several firms around Wall Street before starting his career at Morgan Stanley in 1972 as a salesman, and has since worked for the company for nearly thirty years. Rising steadily to positions of increasing responsibility, Mack eventually headed the firm’s Worldwide Taxable Fixed Income Division from 1985 to 1992. Continue reading “Banker: John J. Mack”
Banker: Henry Paulson
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Henry Merritt “Hank” Paulson Jr. (born March 28, 1946) is an American banker who served as the 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury from 2006 to 2009. Prior to his role in the Department of the Treasury, Paulson was the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Goldman Sachs..
He served as Treasury Secretary under President George W. Bush. Paulson served through the end of the Bush administration, leaving office on January 20, 2009. He is now the chairman of the Paulson Institute, which he founded in 2011 to promote sustainable economic growth and a cleaner environment around the world, with an initial focus on the United States and China. Continue reading “Banker: Henry Paulson”
Lawyer: Charles R. Schwab
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Charles Robert Schwab (born July 29, 1937) is an American investor and financial executive. He is the founder and chairman of the Charles Schwab Corporation. He pioneered discount sales of equity securities starting in 1975. His company became by far the largest discount securities dealer in the United States. He retired as CEO in 2008, but remains chairman and is the largest shareholder..
As of February 2017, his net worth is estimated by Forbes to be $8.2 billion, making him 76th richest man on the Forbes 400. Continue reading “Lawyer: Charles R. Schwab”
Lawyer: Anthony Elgindy
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Anthony Elgindy (November 28, 1967 – July 23, 2015),[1] was an American stock broker, and financial commentator who founded Pacific Equity Investigations. Elgindy gained a reputation for his “investigations” of companies. Towards the end of his life, Elgindy was convicted of insider trading and served seven years in federal prison..
Born in Egypt as Amr Ibrahim Elgindy, Elgindy was known professionally as “Anthony@Pacific”, the “Internet’s most theatrical short-seller”. Continue reading “Lawyer: Anthony Elgindy”
Official: Robert Foster Bennett
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Robert Foster Bennett (September 18, 1933 – May 4, 2016) was an American politician and businessman. He was a United States Senator from Utah as a member of the Republican Party. Bennett held chairmanships and senior positions on a number of key Senate committees, including the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee; Appropriations Committee; Rules and Administration Committee; Energy and Natural Resources Committee; and Joint Economic Committee..
Bennett was a popular and reliably conservative senator for most of his tenure, earning high ratings from conservative activist groups such as the National Rifle Association, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and American Conservative Union. Continue reading “Official: Robert Foster Bennett”
