{"id":39708,"date":"2013-12-23T08:24:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T13:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=39708"},"modified":"2013-12-23T08:24:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T13:24:36","slug":"meet-the-american-hedge-fund-billionaire-who-could-start-a-holy-war-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2013\/meet-the-american-hedge-fund-billionaire-who-could-start-a-holy-war-in-the-middle-east.html","title":{"rendered":"Meet the American Hedge Fund Billionaire Who Could Start a \u2018Holy War\u2019 in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global Research \u00a0-Henry Swieca is a money man. The New York-based billionaire made his fortune by co-founding Highbridge Capital Corp., a hedge fund that boasted clients like the American International Group.<\/p>\n<p>Swieca,\u00a0whose net worth is $1.2 billion as of September 2013, is well-known as a financial guru. His every move is covered by the financial press. But he\u2019s less known for what his foundation pours money into: right-wing, pro-Israel causes. Along with a host of charitable groups and domestic Jewish centers, the Swieca Family Foundation, which he runs with his Israeli-American wife Estee, has poured tons of cash into pro-Israel groups\u2013including to religious extremist groups that operate in the most sensitive of holy places. Swieca did not return requests for comment on his donations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/meet-the-american-hedge-fund-billionaire-who-could-start-a-holy-war-in-the-middle-east\/5362463?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=meet-the-american-hedge-fund-billionaire-who-could-start-a-holy-war-in-the-middle-east\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Research \u00a0-Henry Swieca is a money man. The New York-based billionaire made his fortune by co-founding Highbridge Capital Corp., a hedge fund that boasted clients like the American International Group. Swieca,\u00a0whose net worth is $1.2 billion as of September [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39708","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=39708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39709,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39708\/revisions\/39709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}