Posted on 01/22/2016 9:18:27 AM PST by springwater13
The ambitious young men sat for hours at a restaurant here to map out plans for a business venture that could make them millions.
In a group that included three Jamaican entrepreneurs, one participant seemed out of place - a 27-year-old former U.S. Supreme Court law clerk of Cuban descent who was visiting from Washington.
Ted Cruz had been invited by his roommate from Princeton and Harvard Law, David Panton, who was eager for the group to win the rights to manage a new Caribbean-focused investment enterprise launched by one of the island's most prominent executives.
The idea was modeled after U.S. private equity companies that made fortunes by using investor dollars to remake underperforming companies. The Caribbean concept came with a twist - the investor dollars would be drawn in part from governments, including from the United States, leveraging funds intended to boost the developing world.
It was an odd fit for Cruz, who as early as high school and college expressed a strong belief in limited government. But the plan held potential for big profits. And Cruz was welcomed by Panton's fellow Jamaican partners as a skilled negotiator well-suited to help hone their pitch for managing the new firm.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
And profits are bad! Say the Trump supporters.
More Aliskey tactics by the washpo.
EXHIBIT ONE <><> In January 2016, the New York Times reported that Cruz and his wife had taken out low-interest loans from Goldman Sachs (her employer) and Citibank, and failed to report the nearly $1 million in loans on Federal Election Commission disclosure statements as required by law.[97] Cruz disclosed the loans on his Senate financial disclosure forms in July 2012, but not on the Federal Election Commission form.[98] The loans were largely repaid by later campaign fundraising.....even though Cruz/s spox recently said no donor paid off the loans. A spokesperson for Cruz said his failure to report the loans to the FEC was "inadvertent" and said he would be filing supplementary paperwork.[97]
EXHIBIT TWO <><> Time magazine reported on a potential violation of ethics rules by Senate candidate Cruz. ........by failing to publicly disclose his financial relationship with Caribbean Equity Partners Investment Holdings during the 2012 campaign, Cruz called his failure to disclose these connections an inadvertent omission.[96]
revealed in 2013 that he had failed to include the asset on two years of Senate ethics forms. Cruz said it was an oversight and amended the forms. Cruz has never cashed in the note, but Panton has said he stands ready to pay if asked.
My My........he does have an issue remembering to put money on his ethic forms. Lord for a guy so “ethical”, he doesn’t practice it at all.
You have to admit that Cruz has a problem filling out forms. He forgot to write his earnings on the ethics paperwork.....again! He is somebody that likes to get away with as much as he can. I know you love him, but you do have to wake up some.
He's willing to amend the forms for whatever he gets caught at.
I don’t really care. At least he is not a hypricrit.
Is”Surging Ted” a citizen of Jamaica too?
I would rather a hypocrite the someone immoral like cruz. I can’t believe you don’t care that cruz signs forms with outright lines in them.
Please show a link.
Thanks would like to bookmark that item!!
Take care.
I think we need an act of Congress or some judge to define the meaning of that word hypocrite.
That photo of the two in the couch reminds me of the young Obama pic with his friend. On he road. Can someone post both photos in this thread?
“I think we need an act of Congress or some judge to define the meaning of that word hypocrite.”
Never going to happen! All of them have to look in the mirror too often.
Sorry I forgot my sarcasm tag but that seemed to be the point of the article.
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