Joon Hyun Kim is an American attorney who served as the acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from March 2017 to January 2018. He was Deputy U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from July 2015 to March 2017 after serving as the chief of the criminal division since July 2014. From April 2013 to July 2014, Kim was the chief counsel to the U.S. Attorney. Kim attended Phillips Exeter Academy, where he graduated in 1989, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University in 1993 and graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, in 1996. After law school, he clerked for Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum of the Southern District of New York. From 2006 to 2013, Kim worked at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.
Subject: Geoffrey S. Berman
Subject of InterestGeoffrey Steven Berman is an American lawyer serving as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York since 2018. He previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1990 to 1994. In January 2018, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Berman’s appointment as interim U.S. Attorney for a statutory period of 120 days. On April 25, 2018, the judges of the Southern District of New York, pursuant to the statute, unanimously appointed Berman U.S. Attorney for an indeterminate term that expires upon the appointment of a Presidential nominee approved by the Senate. Berman earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Bachelor of Science in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1981. He then studied law at Stanford University where he obtained a Juris Doctor degree in 1984. During his studies, he was the Note Editor of the Stanford Law Review.
Subject: Rudolph W. Giuliani
Subject of InterestRudolph William Louis Giuliani is an American politician, attorney, and public speaker who served as the 107th Mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001. He currently acts as an attorney to President Donald Trump. Politically first a Democrat, then an Independent in the 1970s, and a Republican since the 1980s, Giuliani served as United States Associate Attorney General from 1981 to 1983. That year he became the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, holding the position until 1989. In 2002, Giuliani founded Giuliani Partners (consulting), acquired and later sold Giuliani Capital Advisors (investment banking), and joined a Texas firm while opening a Manhattan office for the firm renamed Bracewell & Giuliani.
Subject: Michael R. Bloomberg
Subject of InterestMichael R. Bloomberg is an American businessman, politician, philanthropist, and author. He is the majority owner and co-founder of Bloomberg L.P.. He was the 108th mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013. Bloomberg grew up in Medford, Massachusetts and graduated from Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Business School. He began his career at the securities brokerage Salomon Brothers before forming his own company in 1981. That company, Bloomberg L.P., is a financial information, software and media firm that is known for its Bloomberg Terminal. Bloomberg spent the next twenty years as its chairman and CEO.
Subject: Bill de Blasio
Subject of InterestBill de Blasio aka Warren Wilhelm Jr. is an American politician who has served as the 109th mayor of New York City since 2014. A member of the Democratic Party, he was New York City’s public advocate from 2010 to 2013. Born in Manhattan and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, de Blasio graduated from New York University and Columbia University before a brief stint as a campaign manager for Charles Rangel and Hillary Clinton. He started his career as an elected official on the New York City Council, representing the 39th district in Brooklyn from 2002 to 2009. After serving one term as public advocate, he was elected mayor of New York City in 2013 and reelected in 2017.
Subject: Letitia James
Subject of InterestLetitia “Tish” James is the 67th Attorney General for the State of New York. In 2013, James was elected Public Advocate for the City of New York and then reelected in 2017. Prior to serving as Public Advocate, James represented the 35th Council District in Brooklyn in the New York City Council for ten years. Before her election to the City Council, James served as head of the Brooklyn Regional Office of the New York State Attorney General’s Office. James began her career as a public defender at the Legal Aid Society. She is a graduate of Lehman College and Howard University School of Law.
Subject: Andrew M. Cuomo
Subject of InterestAndrew M. Cuomo is a Democratic American politician, author, and lawyer serving since 2011 as the 56th governor of New York. He was elected to the same position his father, Mario Cuomo, held for three terms. Born in New York City, Cuomo is a graduate of Fordham University and Albany Law School of Union University, New York. He began his career working as the campaign manager for his father, then as an assistant district attorney in New York City before entering private law practice. In 1993, Cuomo joined the Clinton Administration as Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development in the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. From 1997 to 2001, he served as the U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. In 2006, Cuomo was elected Attorney General of New York.
Subject: Louis Moore Bacon
Subject of InterestLouis Moore Bacon is the founder, Chairman and principal investment manager of Moore Capital Management, LP, founded in 1989 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in London and Hong Kong. Prior to founding Moore Capital, Bacon was a Senior Vice President-Futures at Shearson Lehman Brothers Inc. He previously held positions at Walter N. Frank & Co., a NYSE specialist firm, and at Bankers Trust. Bacon earned an M.B.A. in Finance from Columbia Business School in New York and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in American Literature from Middlebury College in Vermont. Mr. Bacon is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Foreign Policy Association. He also serves on the Leadership Council of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School and is a member of the Corporate Fund Board of the Kennedy Center.
Subject: Henry Alexander Swieca
Subject of InterestHenry Alexander Swieca is the founder of Talpion Fund Management. Prior to launching Talpion in 2010, Mr. Swieca co-founded the global alternative investment management firm Management in 1992 with his childhood friend Glenn Dubin. He served as the firm’s chief investment officer from inception to its acquisition by JPMorgan Chase in 2009. Swieca began his career in 1980 at Merrill Lynch & Co. as a registered representative. In 1984, while at E.F. Hutton & Co., he co-founded Dubin & Swieca Capital Management, an alternative investment management firm that preceded Highbridge Capital. Swieca graduated with a MBA at Columbia Business School.
Highbridge Capital Management LLC
Subject: Glenn Dubin
Subject of InterestGlenn Russell Dubin retired as an American hedge fund manager and was the Principal of Dubin & Co. LP, a private investment company. He was also the Co-Founder of Highbridge Capital Management, an alternative asset management company based in New York City, which he founded with his childhood friend, Henry Swieca along with Dubin & Swieca, founded in 1984. Dubin began his career in finance as a retail stock broker at E. F. Hutton & Co. in 1978. Dubin graduated from Stony Brook University.
Highbridge Capital Management LLC
Subject: Paul Tudor Jones
Subject of InterestPaul Tudor Jones is an American hedge fund manager, conservationist and philanthropist. In 1980, he founded his hedge fund, Tudor Investment Corporation, an asset management firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. At 24 years old Jones became a commodities broker for E. F. Hutton & Co. In October 2012, it was announced that Glenn Dubin, Paul Tudor Jones and Timothy Barakett were among a group of investors buying the merchant energy operation Louis Dreyfus Highbridge Energy (“LDH Energy”) from Louis Dreyfus Company and Highbridge Capital Management, a New York-based hedge fund. The new company was named Castleton Commodities International, LLC. Jones earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Virginia.
Data: Rio2 Limited Naked Short Being Squeezed
UncategorizedRio2 Limited Naked Short Being Squeezed
With Canada markets closed and the US OTC open, the naked shorts that have been suppressing the stock price of Rio2 Ltd (RIO.v) (RIOFF) from Canada and via the US market cannot do their thing this morning.
The result is this:
Tip: Morgan Stanley Needs To Be Top Target
TipArticle: Denmark Adopts New Dividend Tax Model After Multiple Fraud Cases
Article - MediaDenmark Adopts New Dividend Tax Model After Multiple Fraud Cases
Morten Buttler
Bloomberg, 18 May 2020
Denmark is adopting broad changes to how foreign investors are refunded dividend taxes as the government hunts down more than $2 billion it says was tricked into turning over.
In a new agreement with the country’s financial industry, banks will play a central role in monitoring payments, and will be held liable for clients’ outstanding taxes. All foreign investors will have to register with the Danish Tax Agency, according to a statement by the tax ministry.