{"id":41234,"date":"2014-03-20T07:29:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T11:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=41234"},"modified":"2014-03-20T07:29:24","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T11:29:24","slug":"pensiongate-christie-campaign-donors-won-huge-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2014\/pensiongate-christie-campaign-donors-won-huge-contracts.html","title":{"rendered":"Pensiongate? Christie Campaign Donors Won Huge Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nation &#8211; Governor Christie moved to award big pension management contracts to the Wall Street donors who have helped boost his political fortunes. In his second year in office, Christie\u2019s administration proposed giving Singer\u2019s hedge fund, Elliott Associates, a contract to manage $200 million in state public pension funds. Elliott Associates won the contract in 2012. Singer again demonstrated his political loyalty to Christie in December 2013, shortly after Christie became chair of the RGA, a coveted post for GOP presidential aspirants. This time, Singer gave the group $1.25 million, making him the largest contributor that year and significantly enlarging the RGA\u2019s war chest under Christie.<\/p>\n<p>Another hedge fund manager with close political ties to Christie, Daniel Loeb, has also won big contracts to manage state retiree money under the governor,\u00a0<em>The Nation<\/em>\u00a0has found.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/178862\/pensiongate-christie-campaign-donors-won-huge-contracts\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nation &#8211; Governor Christie moved to award big pension management contracts to the Wall Street donors who have helped boost his political fortunes. In his second year in office, Christie\u2019s administration proposed giving Singer\u2019s hedge fund, Elliott Associates, a [&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-41234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41234","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=41234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41235,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41234\/revisions\/41235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}