US website to honor Nisman has among its sponsors the head of a hedge fund in litigation with Argent

[Judi Lynn]

Friday, March 20th 2015 - 08:03 UTC

US website to honor Nisman has among its sponsors the head of a hedge fund in litigation with Argentina

A Washington-based think-tank launched a website and award to honor the memory of late AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman yet its founders raised a few eyebrows as they include someone who has an ongoing court case and regularly spoken ill of Argentina.


Paul Singer, whose hedge fund Elliott Management is currently engulfed in a billion-dollar legal battle against Argentina over defaulted debt, is the second-largest donor to the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD).

The website was launched a day after Douglas Farah, a Senior Fellow for the International Assessment and Strategy Center (IASC), gave testimony to the US Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere in which he linked Argentina to an effort to help Iran with its nuclear ambitions. Farah’s report happens to be one of the leading blog posts on AlbertoNisman.org.

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According to a US tax form Singer is the second-largest contributor to the think tank, having contributed US$3.5 million between 2008 and 2011, this is followed by business magnate and billionaire Sheldon G. Adelson (a close supporter and contributor to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu) with US$1.5 million.

Singer already spends millions funding the American Task Force Argentina, which lobbies the US Congress to pressure Argentina to settle its dispute with his hedge fund.

More:
http://en.mercopress.com/2015/03/20/us-website-to-honor-nisman-has-among-its-sponsors-the-head-of-a-hedge-fund-in-litigation-with-argentina

[Peace Patriot]

1. Here's hoping that the people oppressed by Paul Singer rise up...

...some day as one powerful democratic force and take their money back! This man is the worst of the vulture multi-billionaires who are destroying lives, countries, democracies and environments all over the world. He and his kind need to be prosecuted for their crimes and put to work, say, emptying bedpans in nursing homes, with electronic anklets on, so we know where they are.

[forest444]

2. +1!

Many seem to think vulture fund activities could never hurt U.S. taxpayers; but $15 billion in TARP losses and bankruptcies such as Caesar's say otherwise. And unless they're stopped, this is only the beginning - Psychology 101.

When it comes to Pirates of the Caribbean like Paul Singer and his parrot, Judge Thomas Greasa, it's "capitalist risk for thee, but socialist bailouts for me":

*http://www.thenation.com/article/170643/mr-singer-and-mr-ryan#
*http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-pope/romney-delphi-auto_b_2051373.html
*http://nypost.com/2014/11/26/paul-singer-looks-to-send-caesars-to-bankruptcy/