{"id":41598,"date":"2014-04-16T06:33:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T10:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=41598"},"modified":"2014-04-16T06:33:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T10:33:41","slug":"billionaire-hedge-fund-leaders-join-rickettss-super-pac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2014\/billionaire-hedge-fund-leaders-join-rickettss-super-pac.html","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Hedge Fund Leaders Join Ricketts\u2019s Super-PAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Two billionaire hedge fund executives have joined Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts\u2019s super-political action committee as it works to elect Republicans to Congress, a U.S. Federal Election Commission report showed.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Singer, president of New York-based Elliott Management, wrote a check for $350,000 to the Ending Spending super-PAC, and Baupost Group, the Boston hedge fund run by Seth Klarman, gave $450,000. Ricketts, also a billionaire, gave another $550,000, according to the report filed yesterday. Those three donations accounted for all of Ending Spending\u2019s $1.35 million total for the first three months of this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-04-15\/billionaire-hedge-fund-executives-join-ricketts-political-group.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Two billionaire hedge fund executives have joined Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts\u2019s super-political action committee as it works to elect Republicans to Congress, a U.S. Federal Election Commission report showed. Paul Singer, president of New York-based Elliott Management, wrote [&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-41598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41598","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=41598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41599,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41598\/revisions\/41599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}