{"id":45397,"date":"2014-12-10T01:56:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T06:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=45397"},"modified":"2014-12-10T01:56:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T06:56:07","slug":"hedge-fund-founder-steve-cohen-gave-big-to-boost-republican-governors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2014\/hedge-fund-founder-steve-cohen-gave-big-to-boost-republican-governors.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Founder Steve Cohen Gave Big to Boost Republican Governors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Steve Cohen, the founder of the now defunct hedge fund SAC Capital, plowed money into a late effort to help Republicans win state gubernatorial races this election, new campaign-finance report show.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Cohen contributed $1.5 million\u00a0to the American Comeback Committee, a related organization of the\u00a0Republican Governors Association on Oct. 24 \u2013 a date that was after the final reporting period for the election. As a result, the donation was not made public until after the election.The money from Mr. Cohen was first disclosed by Political Money Line.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"Steve%20Cohen, the founder of the now defunct hedge fund SAC Capital, plowed money into a late effort to help Republicans win state gubernatorial races this election, new campaign-finance report show.  Mr. Cohen contributed $1.5 million to the American Comeback Committee, a related organization of the Republican Governors Association on Oct. 24 \u2013 a date that was after the final reporting period for the election. As a result, the donation was not made public until after the election.The money from Mr. Cohen was first disclosed by Political Money Line.\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Steve Cohen, the founder of the now defunct hedge fund SAC Capital, plowed money into a late effort to help Republicans win state gubernatorial races this election, new campaign-finance report show. Mr. Cohen contributed $1.5 million\u00a0to the American [&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-45397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45397","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=45397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45399,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45397\/revisions\/45399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}