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December 2015 was a pivotal month in many respects. During the first week of December 2015, Donald Trump began to establish a substantial lead over his Republican primary opponents. Vice President Joseph Biden traveled to Ukraine to announce, on December 7th, a $190 million program to “fight corruption in law enforcement and reform the justice sector,” but behind the scenes explicitly linked a $1 billion loan guarantee to the firing of Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who had been investigating the energy company Burisma, which employed Biden’s son Hunter. On December 9, 2015, the reported whistleblower Eric Ciaramella held a meeting...

UPDATE 1-Pardus $2 billion hedge fund suspends withdrawals Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:12pm EDT (Adds details, byline) By Dane Hamilton NEW YORK, March 31 (Reuters) - Pardus Capital Management, a global activist hedge fund with over $2 billion in assets, said on Monday it suspended investor withdrawals in the face of slumping values of some of its holdings and demands for capital return. Pardus -- which holds positions in both Delta Air Lines Inc (DAL.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and United Air Lines parent UAL Corp (UAUA.O: Quote, Profile, Research) and has urged the companies to merge -- said it suspended...