Ironic someone else endorsed him that also has ties to Diamond trading...
Ironic someone else endorsed him that also has ties to Diamond trading...
Rudy Giuliani forged with a wealthy diamond-trading family from Israel helped his effort to expand his fledgling consulting business in Japan, and generated more than $600,000 in speaking fees for the Republican presidential candidate.
The former New York mayor's previously undisclosed relationship with the Sage Capital Growth -- a medium-size private equity firm associated with the diamond-trading Steinmetz family of Israel -- shows how money came his way after he earned international acclaim leading the city through the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. It offers a peek at Mr. Giuliani's closely held five-year-old consulting business, New York-based Giuliani Partners LLC, whose clients he has declined to identify. In addition to large speaking fees that went directly to Mr. Giuliani, the Sage relationship helped his firm expand into a foreign market where he and his team of ex-New York City criminal justice, municipal and fire department officials lacked experience.
They went beyond their core security expertise to work with companies in sectors ranging from condominiums to alternative energy -- though their promises to help Japanese companies to expand sometimes fell flat. Mr. Giuliani's personal contributions appear largely to have been to make speeches in Tokyo and elsewhere to promote his partnership with Sage, and to lend his celebrity status to conferences. Two of the Japanese companies Sage invested in prominently posted photos of the former mayor posing with their executives.
"At the beginning, there was some hope this would lead to something bigger, but that just didn't materialize," said Nobuyuki Omori, an investor relations manager at Digital Garage Inc., an Internet firm the Sage-Giuliani partnership had vowed to help expand. At one point, Mr. Giuliani was slated to head a Sage-funded philanthropy alongside major business leaders in the U.S. and Japan, though that.........(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
NOTE: FReepers calcowgirl and Calpernia also have good research on this.
Still admire his call for Chavez's assasination.