Yesterday I asked the question:
How much did Jack Conway raise during the U.S. Senate race from executives at or related to EnTrust and other investment agencies that have attempted to get business with KRS/KTRS?
So… let’s try to answer it. Not because I care, really, just primarily because a state government employee and prominent Democrat hinted that I should back off.
Jack received nearly $100,000 from money management firms and class-action law firms catering to public pension plans.
Hedge fund contributors to Jack:
- $3,400 – Greg Hymowitz and Jill Daschle – EnTrust
- $2,400 – Doug Lowry – Brownstone Investment Group
- $2,000 – Frank Perrotti – board member of Prime Bank, a private bank catering to the hedge fund community
- $250 – Harvest Volatility Partners, LLC
Contributors affiliated with private equity, venture capital and real estate (folks seeking public pension funds):
- $2,400 – Mark Nunnelly – private equipty fund
- $4,800 – Laura Bacon – married to Tom Bacon, CEO of Lionstone, a real estate investment fund dealing with public pension accounts
- $4,800 – Charles Alexander – Xavier Drake Investments LLC
- $4,800 – Sara Morgan – married to William Morgan, head of Portucullis Partners LP and Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, LP
- $4,800 – Richard Watson – Alameda Corporation investment advisor
- $2,500 – Peter Knight – Generation Investments
- $2,400 – Reid Buerger – Coventry First LLC & Montgomery Capital, Inc. He’s sold secondary life insurance commonly known as death bonds to pension funds
- $2,000 – Jason Scott – EKO Asset Management Partners
- $2,000 – Richard Kaufmann – Good Energies
- $2,400 – Charles Mayer – Chairman of LaSalle Investment Group
Contributions from investment managers:
- $9,600 – James Elkins and his wife
- $4,800 – Jim Shircliff – president River Road, a firm seeking to expand into public pension investments
- $2,750 – Three executives from Capital International, a firm managing global stock portfolios for many public pension systems
- $1,000 – Lisa Wandt – Wr Hambrect
- $1,000 – Evan Roth – BBR Partners
Contributions from firms representing public pension systems, three of which have been implicated in New York’s “Pay to Play” scandal:
- $26,450 – Andrew Barroway & wife Elyce, along with seven other partners of Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer and Check. Involved in stockholder class action suits involving public pension funds.
- $2,900 – Attorneys from Grant & Eisenhofer
- $2,000 – Attorneys from Wolfpopper
- $500 – Roger Kirby – Kirby McInerney
- $2,400 – Myron Cherry – Chicago attorney, “Pay for Play” expert, surfaced in October 2008 as “Individual H” in a Rezko fraud indictment involving pension investments made by the Teachers’ Retirement System of Illinois
- $2,500 – Lieff Cabraser – New York law firm
Yeah, nothing to see here. Absolutely nothing at all!
Oh, and here’s a tidbit for you to chew on: Since 2008, a KRS board member has been contacting the Office of the Attorney general (I’ve got several emails to back it up if anyone in the press needs proof). And you know what? The OAG has never responded to them and has not once chosen to do so much as preliminarily investigate what’s been going down.
Meanwhile, the apologists are ginning up their spin. Yep. Definitely nothing to see here.
10 responses so far ↓
1 PEbanker // May 27, 2011 at 1:28 pm
This is endemic to all candidates of all parties. The good ones are the ones who don’t act on it.
I think what you’re actually mad about is how much it costs to run for office in america, and what candidates have to do to get funds to compete.
2 B.M. // May 27, 2011 at 1:43 pm
Wow, Jake that looks really bad…but i suspect it will get worse.
3 jake // May 27, 2011 at 1:56 pm
Really? I’m “mad” that it’s expensive to run for political office?
Jack’s super-wealthy, thanks to his daddy. He can self-fund. This isn’t about politics being expensive. It’s about getting some ass kissing and giving someone else the political reach-around while pretending everything is puppies and rainbows.
4 Frankfort Eye // May 27, 2011 at 4:49 pm
Nice work, Jake. Let’s all pretend that so many out of state lawyers and money managers gave so much money to Conway because they gave a shit about the Kentucky Attorney General’s race. Mark Riddle in the middle? You betcha, and the boy had better be worried if the SEC gets off its ass.
5 Ruh ro moment for top Dems // May 28, 2011 at 12:32 am
All these folks have given to those in office and those seeking office. Ky. is definately a pay to play state. Illinois we see your Blago and raise you an entire slate of politicos
6 Whowillgodownasthescapegoat?? // May 28, 2011 at 4:51 pm
Woohoo great work Cheves and Jake! Fancy Farm should be fun!!! Peeps should dress up as giant joints being smoked by Conway’s bro, someone should dress up as a leprechaun (Hollenbach) handing out chocolate gold coins, set-up a basketball and if you make a free-throw you win a stick on Farmer stache and qualify to be a Lt.
Governor. Blago hair photoshoped on Beshear
7 Who else got lettuce for their shoe fetish? // May 29, 2011 at 8:31 pm
Who else received campaign donations from these guys?
8 giveJakefancyredshoesforthis // May 30, 2011 at 10:39 pm
Riddle me this…Riddle me that…Conway been marked but does the Governor have his back? Glad to see a Kentucky newspaper not even close to working on a story that smells to high heaven! The Courier sucks!
9 B.M. // Jun 1, 2011 at 7:52 am
Did this thing die or did somebody just throw a big ole wet blanket on it? Haven’t heard anything in almost a week. Does that mean that there is nothing to it?
10 jake // Jun 1, 2011 at 9:18 am
Typically, when folks investigate the link between contributions and, say, an AG opinion issued 30-60 days earlier that grandfathers in KRS trustees into 4th and 5th terms… I’m gonna go ahead and jump out on a limb and say we’re not going to hear anything over night. Gonna take a while.
And are you really surprised that the AKN reporter willingly excluded mention of the potential scandal in his article? It’s not like he was unaware – he called the political parties asking why it was a big deal and still decided to ignore it.
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