{"id":42573,"date":"2014-06-16T07:27:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T11:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=42573"},"modified":"2014-06-16T07:27:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T11:27:42","slug":"hedge-fund-ceo-gives-2-5m-to-rauner-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2014\/hedge-fund-ceo-gives-2-5m-to-rauner-campaign.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund CEO gives $2.5M to Rauner campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AP &#8211; A Chicago hedge fund CEO&#8217;s $2.5 million donation to the campaign of Republican candidate Bruce Rauner has been termed the largest single donation in an Illinois governor&#8217;s race in the post-Watergate era.<\/p>\n<p>Campaign disclosure records show 45-year-old Citadel chief executive Ken Griffin has now given Rauner a total of $3.57 million, including $71,000 worth of in-kind contributions for the use of Griffin&#8217;s private jet. Griffin in the past has made campaign contributions to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a Democrat, and Republican state Sen. Bill Brady.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwherald.com\/2014\/06\/14\/hedge-fund-ceo-gives-2-5m-to-rauner-campaign\/aip88x1\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP &#8211; A Chicago hedge fund CEO&#8217;s $2.5 million donation to the campaign of Republican candidate Bruce Rauner has been termed the largest single donation in an Illinois governor&#8217;s race in the post-Watergate era. Campaign disclosure records show 45-year-old Citadel [&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-42573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42573","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=42573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42575,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42573\/revisions\/42575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}