Cos you’d have to rely on the new orgs to tell the story, silly
And the news orgs are paid to say, “Fox Sux.”
Directors and Personnel
George Soros, Chair
Aryeh Neier, President
Stewart J. Paperin, Executive Vice President
Annette Laborey, Vice President
Gara LaMarche, FORMER Vice President and Director of U.S. Programs
Ricardo Castro, General Counsel
Robert Kushen, Director of International Operations
Laura Silber, Director of Public Affairs and Senior Policy Advisor
Maija Arbolino, Chief Financial Officer and Director of Finance
Stephanie Steele, Director of International Human Resources
Anthony Richter, Associate Director and Director of the Central Eurasia Project/Middle East and North Africa Initiative
Yalan Teng, Chief Information Officer
Stephen D. Gutmann, Director of Accounting Policy and Audit Services
Trustees (U.S. Committee)
George Soros (Chair)
Aryeh Neier (President)
Leon Botstein
Geoffrey Canada
Joan B. Dunlop
Lani Guinier
David J. Rothman
Thomas M. Scanlon, Jr.
John G. Simon
Jonathan Soros
Herbert Sturz
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Open_Society_Institute
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Adam Culbreath is the program officer for the Soros Justice Fellowships
Leonard Noisette - Director - Criminal Justice Fund (2011)
Tawanda Mutasah - Director of Programs (2011)
Fiona Napier - International Advocacy Director (2011)
Ann Beeson - joined the Open Society Institute in June 2007 as the executive director of U.S. Programs
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Open_Society_Institute
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In 2003, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker wrote in the foreword of Soros’ book The Alchemy of Finance:
George Soros has made his mark as an enormously successful speculator, wise enough to largely withdraw when still way ahead of the game. The bulk of his enormous winnings is now devoted to encouraging transitional and emerging nations to become ‘open societies,’ open not only in the sense of freedom of commerce but – more important – tolerant of new ideas and different modes of thinking and behavior.
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is critical of Soros’s effect on financial markets.
“[N]obody who has read a business magazine in the last few years can be unaware that these days there really are investors who not only move money in anticipation of a currency crisis, but actually do their best to trigger that crisis for fun and profit. These new actors on the scene do not yet have a standard name; my proposed term is ‘Soroi.’”
Insider trading conviction
In 1988, he was asked to join a takeover attempt of the French bank Société Générale. He declined to participate in the bid but later bought a number of shares in the company. French authorities began an investigation in 1989, and in 2002 a French court ruled that it was insider trading, a felony conviction as defined under French securities laws, and fined him $2.3 million, which was the amount that he made using the insider information.
Punitive damages were not sought because of the delay in bringing the case to trial. Soros denied any wrongdoing and said news of the takeover was public knowledge.
His insider trading conviction was upheld by the highest court in France on June 14, 2006. In December 2006, he appealed to the European Court of Human Rights, claiming that the 14-year delay in bringing the case to trial precluded a fair hearing.
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According to National Review the Open Society Institute gave $20,000 in September 2002 to the Defense Committee of Lynne Stewart, the lawyer who has defended alleged terrorists in court and was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for “providing material support for a terrorist conspiracy” via a press conference for a client. An OSI spokeswoman said “it appeared to us at that time that there was a right-to-counsel issue worthy of our support.”
On October 26, 2010, Soros donated $1 million, the largest donation in the campaign, to the Drug Policy Alliance to fund Proposition 19, that would have legalized marijuana in the state of California if it had passed in the November 2, 2010 elections.
The Project on Death in America, active from 2001 to 2003, was one of the Open Society Institute’s projects, which sought to “understand and transform the culture and experience of dying and bereavement.” In 1994, Soros delivered a speech in which he reported that he had offered to help his mother, a member of the Hemlock Society, commit suicide. In the same speech, he also endorsed the Oregon Death with Dignity Act, the campaign for which he helped fund.