{"id":56167,"date":"2017-01-19T01:01:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T06:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=56167"},"modified":"2017-01-19T01:01:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T06:01:04","slug":"clinton-cash-book-got-most-of-its-funding-from-one-hedge-fund-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2017\/clinton-cash-book-got-most-of-its-funding-from-one-hedge-fund-star.html","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Clinton Cash\u2019 Book Got Most of Its Funding From One Hedge Fund Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) The nonprofit group behind the bestseller \u201cClinton Cash,\u201d whose investigation of dealings by Hillary Clinton and her family furnished ammunition for Donald Trump in last year\u2019s presidential campaign, got two-thirds of its funding from a single hedge-fund manager.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Mercer provided $1.7 million of the group\u2019s $2.6 million of revenue in 2015, according to Internal Revenue Service documents obtained by Bloomberg News. The group, the Government Accountability Institute, was co-founded by populist firebrand Stephen Bannon, now the president-elect\u2019s chief strategist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/politics\/articles\/2017-01-18\/-clinton-cash-book-got-most-of-its-funding-from-hedge-fund-star\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) The nonprofit group behind the bestseller \u201cClinton Cash,\u201d whose investigation of dealings by Hillary Clinton and her family furnished ammunition for Donald Trump in last year\u2019s presidential campaign, got two-thirds of its funding from a single hedge-fund manager. Robert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56167","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56168,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56167\/revisions\/56168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}