{"id":30424,"date":"2012-07-31T05:43:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T09:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=30424"},"modified":"2012-07-31T05:48:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T09:48:20","slug":"barclays-under-fire-for-fundraising-with-hedge-fund-buddy-romney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2012\/barclays-under-fire-for-fundraising-with-hedge-fund-buddy-romney.html","title":{"rendered":"Barclays Under Fire For Fundraising With Hedge Fund Buddy Romney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30429 alignright\" title=\"Romney\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; UK newspaper <em>The Telegraph\u00a0<\/em>reports that 11 Members of Parliament have demanded that Barclays Bank stop raising money for former hedge fund manager and Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, and instead work to rebuild the public&#8217;s trust in banks following the Libor rate-setting scandal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Executives at Barclays have reportedly donated more than $1m (\u00a3645,000) to US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney&#8217;s election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>(The Bank) is said to have written to MPs stressing that any fundraising or political activity was carried out in \u201ca personal capacity\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Former Barclays Bank\u00a0co-head,\u00a0Jerry\u00a0del Missier, who resigned after\u00a0the\u00a0$455 million\u00a0interest-rate rigging scandal,\u00a0received\u00a0a pay-off of almost $14 million, the Telegraph said.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nEditor for <a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a> is a premier <a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">hedge fund database<\/a> and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; UK newspaper The Telegraph\u00a0reports that 11 Members of Parliament have demanded that Barclays Bank stop raising money for former hedge fund manager and Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, and instead work to rebuild the public&#8217;s trust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16005,12,3,16041],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-developing-stories","category-hedge-fund-regulation","category-hedgeco-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30424"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30432,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30424\/revisions\/30432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}