[Madame Dufarge]

Apollo Advisors - Financial investment managers. 13th largest campaign contributor to Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-CT), Al Gore's vice presidential running mate, and a client of lobbying firm Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld. Another of Akin, Gump's clients is Miller & Chavalier, a Washington, D.C.-based law firm which, together with PricewaterhouseCoopers, drafted the IRS settlement agreement for Hawaii's Kamehameha Schools.

Apollo Advisors has a number of other important connections with Kamehameha Schools: Along with National Housing Corp (which was involved in an alleged kick-back scheme with ousted Bishop Estate trustees Henry Peters and Richard Wong), Apollo and Trinity Investment Trust have financial interests in several estate-owned properties involving two alleged Yakuza-connected companies -- Azabu Building Company and Mitsui Trust.

[bonesmccoy]

Wow! Keep it coming!

[bonesmccoy]

Interesting.

So, I go to this opensecrets.org website and hit it for California (where Gray Davis has more money stockpiled than Bill Simon).

Here's an interesting list of the biggest soft money donors. These guys really kick around big money!

Rank /Organization /Total /to Dems /to Repubs

1 Saban Entertainment $7,725,000 $7,725,000 $0

2 Shangri-La Entertainment $5,025,000 $5,025,000 $0

3 Propel $2,288,786 $2,288,786 $0

4 Global Crossing $949,235 $645,000 $304,235

5 Ameriquest Mortgage $730,000 $730,000 $0

6 Chartwell Partners $725,000 $0 $725,000

7 Louise Gund Foundation $553,000 $553,000 $0

8 Shorenstein Co $550,000 $550,000 $0

9 Metabolife $510,000 $360,000 $150,000

10 ChevronTexaco $426,300 $0 $426,300

11 Eldred Enterprises $421,100 $0 $421,100

12 Paul's TV & Video $405,000 $405,000 $0

13 AG Spanos Companies $356,607 $0 $356,607

14 Northrop Grumman $350,650 $42,000 $308,650

15 Freeman, Spogli & Co $291,702 $0 $291,702

[bonesmccoy]

Is Apollo Management related to Apollo Advisors? (See post above this one regarding donations from Apollo Management to Lieberman's Senate campaign)