A bit more about Dirty Trickster-in-chief Paul Singer

by Brian Leubitz [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

The big Rudy Giuliani supporter Paul Singer is back in the news. The New York Times did a story about the "vulture capitalist" fund manager recounting his plan to steal 20 electoral votes for his main man, Rudy G.  A sneak peak:

Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic Party, questioned "Paul Singer's involvement in this dirty trick aimed at stealing the White House." A group of Democrats filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission charging that Mr. Singer had been acting on behalf of Mr. Giuliani in his efforts to change the California law - which Mr. Singer and the campaign deny. And the Democratic National Committee drew attention to the part of Mr. Singer's business that involves buying the debt of poor countries at a discount and then seeking repayment in full - prompting an article in The Times of London labeling his firm, Elliott Associates, a "vulture fund."
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Mr. Singer, who has given millions of dollars to Republican candidates and causes over the years, said that he met Mr. Giuliani in 2006 and decided to support him. He signed on as one of the campaign's earliest major fund-raisers. For months, Mr. Singer made a jet leased by one of his companies available to Mr. Giuliani. This June, he said, he stepped down as the campaign's Eastern finance chairman to become a policy adviser.(NYT via MSNBC 11/22/07)

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