Tuesday, September 27, 2011

PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW YORK CITY/Mets owners and Bernie Madoff

http://www.businessinsider.com/mets-owners-protected-madoff-2011-2
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Madoff From His Own Investors

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About

MISSION

The Partnership for New York City’s mission is to engage the business community in efforts to advance the economy of New York City and maintain the city’s position as the center of world commerce, finance and innovation. Through the New York City Investment Fund, the Partnership contributes directly to projects that create jobs, improve economically distressed communities and stimulate new business creation.

FOCUS

A Network of Business Leaders

The Partnership is a nonprofit membership organization comprised of a select group of two hundred CEOs (“Partners”) from New York City’s top corporate, investment and entrepreneurial firms. Partners are committed to working closely with government, labor and the nonprofit sector to enhance the economy and maintain New York City’s position as the global center of commerce, culture and innovation.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Partnership_for_New_York_City

Partnership for New York City
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Fred Wilpon - Chairman, Sterling Equities
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Wilpon
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Biography
Wilpon bought a one-percent stake in the Mets in 1980 when Charles Shipman Payson sold the team, with Doubleday & Co. holding the remaining interest. In 1986, Doubleday president Nelson Doubleday, Jr. sold off his company, and he and Wilpon each bought a 50 percent stake in the Mets to become full partners. In 2002, the Wilpon family purchased the remaining 50% of the Mets from Doubleday for $135 million.
Wilpon served as president of the team between 1980 to 2002, as Chief Executive Officer since 1980 and as Chairman of the Board since 2003. Wilpon currently serves as Chairman of Sterling Equities. His son Jeff is the COO of the Mets and executive vice president of Sterling.
Wilpon is a 1958 graduate of the University of Michigan.[2]

[edit] Madoff investment scandal

Wilpon was one of the investors who invested a significant amount of money with Bernard Madoff which was lost when the Ponzi scheme collapsed in December 2008.[3] It was reported that Wilpon had "lost" about $700 million
K. Rupert Murdoch - Chairman & CEO, News Corporation

Steven Lawrence Rattner "is a Managing Principal of Quadrangle Group LLC focused on the firm’s $2.9 billion media and communications private equity business. Prior to the formation of Quadrangle Group in 2000, Mr. Rattner was Deputy Chairman and Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Lazard Freres & Co. LLC. Mr. Rattner founded Lazard's Media and Communications Group and has been involved in many of the largest and most important transactions in these industries. Mr. Rattner, who joined Lazard in 1989 as a General Partner, was previously a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, where he also founded the Communications Group. Mr. Rattner is active in many philanthropic organizations. He is Chairman of the Educational Broadcasting Corporation (Channels 13 and 21, New York’s public television stations), Chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee and a Fellow of Brown University, and a Trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brookings Institution. In addition, he writes regularly for a variety of publications on economic and public policy matters. Mr. Rattner holds a B.A. with honors in economics from Brown University and was awarded the Harvey Baker Fellowship.“ [1]
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
In 1986 he married Patricia Maureen White. [2]
http://other98.com/tell-kathryn-wylde-step-down/
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Nope, nope and nope. It was Kathryn Wylde, a board member of the New York Federal Reserve whose job is to represent the *public* in financial matters.1
Does that sound like a public advocate? Wylde is currently standing in the way of an investigation by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman that would put Bank of America and other major financial firms under the magnifying glass for mortgage fraud. Finally we could see criminal prosecutions of those responsible for the market meltdown.
Enough is Enough! Join us in signing an emergency letter to Ms. Wylde, demanding that she step down.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ernest_Tollerson
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Ernest Tollerson "is Senior Vice President for Strategic Initiatives for the Partnership for New York City, a business-led nonprofit. Previously, he was a Program Officer at the Beldon Fund and served for two years as a member of the Editorial Board of The New York Times. Mr. Tollerson began his career in journalism in 1975 at The Wall Street Journal. He also was editorial page editor at New York Newsday." [1]
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lloyd_C._Blankfein
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Lloyd C. Blankfein is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs.
Lehman Brothers was allowed to fail to help Goldman Sachs. The New York-based bank received $10 billion as part of the government's $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Payment bailout program, which aided hundreds of banks. Goldman repaid the TARP money it received in June. Questions were raised about the government's decision to allow the collapse of Lehman Brothers, a Goldman Sachs competitor, and the decision to prop up American International Group Inc., After the $182.5 billion taxpayer bailout of AIG, Goldman got $12.9 billion from AIG in the form of collateral that Goldman already had in its possession and a cash settlement of ongoing margin disputes. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson was the former chief executive of Goldman Sachs who was aided at Treasury by a bevy of advisers with ties to the firm.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Victor_F._Ganzi
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Victor F. Ganzi "has been a Director of Wyeth since December 2005. Mr. Ganzi was the President and Chief Executive Officer from 2002 to 2008 and a Director from 1990 to 2008 of The Hearst Corporation, a diversified communications company. He is also a Director of Gentiva Health Services, Inc." [1]
Gentiva Health Services

Gentiva loses age-discrimination suit

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In January 2001, Gentiva lost an Ohio-based age-discrimination suit filed in 1998 against the company's former parent company. Because Gentiva had indemnified their former parent company as part of a previous split-off from the parent company, an Ohio jury levied damages of $30m against Gentiva. A report at the time quoted Gentiva vice president Michael Johns as saying, "We are not pleased - and in fact, are shocked - at the size of the jury verdict" [3]; the case was subsequently settled for an undisclosed sum [4].

Personnel

Executives and 2006 pay:

Contact details

3 Huntington Quadrangle
Suite 200S
Melville, NY 11747
Phone: 631-501-7000
Fax: 631-501-7148
Web: http://www.gentiva.com/

NAFTA & FTAA

Mr. Rockefeller has influenced U.S. and Latin American relations for five decades, through both Democratic and Republican administrations. He was instrumental in the design, promotion and implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the proposed Free Trade Area of Americas (FTAA). In an April 23, 1992 address to the Forum of the Americas, George H. W. Bush paid public homage:
"David, thank you, sir. And thank you for your really vital work in rallying the private sector and congressional support for the North American Free Trade Agreement... And let me say to his many friends here that David's personal involvement has been a major factor in the success we've enjoyed so far." [5]

Bilderberg


Dick Cheney endorses David Rockefeller sponsored FTAA proposal. - C-SPAN
Mr. Rockefeller is also a co-director of the Bilderberg society, a group some believe conspires to foster global government. The U.S. group's other directors are Henry Kissinger, Paul Arthur Allaire and Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke. [6]

Candace Beinecke "joined the board of directors of The Wallace Foundation in 2007.
"Candace is the chair of Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP. She was named to her current position in 1999, the first woman to chair a major New York law firm.
"Beinecke serves as chair of Arnhold & S. Bleichroeder Advisors LLC First Eagle Funds, Inc., ranked among the leading U.S. public mutual fund families. She also serves as a board member of ALSTOM (Paris), the French transport and power company, of Vornado Realty Trust (NYSE), of Rockefeller Financial Services, Inc. and Rockefeller & Co., Inc. She is a director, vice chair and member of the executive committee of the Partnership for New York City, a director of the Fund for New York's Future Inc., a member of the Board of Advisors, Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law, and a director of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation.

"Mr. Chenault serves on the Boards of the American Express Company, Quaker Oats Company, Brooklyn Union Gas Company, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, NYU Medical Center, Phoenix House, National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, and the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member emeritus of the Bowdoin College Board of Overseers." [1]
Kenneth is married to Kathryn C. Chenault.
Kathryn C. Chenault is married to Kenneth I. Chenault. [1]
"Kathryn Chenault, a former practicing attorney, has devoted the past several years to supporting educational institutions, the arts and health care. In that capacity she presently serves on various boards including the Studio Museum of Harlem, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Sound Shore Medical Center of Westchester, and Kids of NYU Medical Foundation. This past year she also joined the boards of NYU School of Law and the National Parks Foundation.
"Kathryn Chenault has often been recognized by civic and community organizations for her endless volunteer efforts and philanthropic support. Her tireless commitment to the welfare of young people is demonstrated numerous times through scholarship funds and mentoring programs she has helped develop with various organizations.

Alain J. P. Belda has been chairman of the board of Alcoa (one of the world's largest aluminium smelting companies) since January 2001, and chief executive officer since May 1999.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=James_D._Robinson_III
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James D. Robinson III has been a Director of the First Data "since April 1992 and a Director of eONE Global General Partner II, LLC, a majority-owned subsidiary of the Company, since December 2002. He is a co-founder and General Partner of RRE Ventures, LLC, a private information technology venture investment firm. He serves as President, J. D. Robinson, Inc. and is also non-executive Chairman of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. Mr. Robinson served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of American Express Company from 1977 to 1993. Prior to that, he held several executive positions within American Express, was a general partner with White Weld & Co., and served as Assistant to the Chairman and President of Morgan Guaranty Trust Company. He is a Director of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Coca-Cola Company, Novell, Inc., and several privately owned companies. He is a member of the Business Council, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Committee for Economic Development. Mr. Robinson is Honorary Chairman of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; an Honorary Trustee of the Brookings Institution; and Chairman Emeritus of the Partnership of New York City and the World Travel and Tourism Council. He served as Co-Chairman of the Business Roundtable and as Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations." [1]

Michael G. Cherkasky

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Michael G. Cherkasky is President and Chief Executive Officer of Kroll, Inc.
According to his corporate biography, Michael G. Cherkasky ... joined Kroll in February 1994 after a 16-year career in the criminal justice system as a trial attorney, administrator and investigator. He is a former chief of the Investigations Division for the New York County District Attorney's Office where he investigated fraud, corruption, money laundering, organized crime figures such as John Gotti, and the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
"At Kroll, Mr. Cherkasky initially founded and headed Kroll Monitoring Services, which provides independent inspection and monitoring services, primarily in support of court orders. He has personally handled numerous monitoring assignments. For example, in 1994, he was appointed the compliance officer for the Long Island carting industry with responsibility for investigating corruption and overseeing compliance by some of New York's largest garbage companies. In 1995, he served as advisor to the Orange County, Calif., Grand Jury during their derivatives investigation, and in 1997, he was appointed election officer for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, responsible for supervising and conducting the re-run election of IBT officers. In June 2001, he was appointed independent monitor responsible for overseeing major reforms in the Los Angeles Police Department mandated by a federal court consent decree.
"Mr. Cherkasky was named chief of Kroll's New York Office in 1995, and chief of its North American Region in 1996. In 1997, he was promoted to chief operating officer and executive managing director. He was named president and chief operating officer of Kroll Associates in December 1997, when the firm merged with O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt. He assumed the additional position of president and chief executive officer of The Kroll-O'Gara Company in May 2001. The company was renamed Kroll Inc. in August 2001.
"Early in his career, Mr. Cherkasky served as a law clerk in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. He then served as an assistant district attorney in New York County from 1978-1985, and again in 1985-1993, serving in various capacities. In 1983, he was appointed as a deputy bureau chief of trial bureau 40, and was responsible for supervising over 30 lawyers and prosecuting thousands of criminal complaints. In 1984, at the age of 34, he was appointed bureau chief of trial bureau 40, the youngest person to serve in that position at that time. In May 1985, Mr. Cherkasky left the District Attorney's office to run the re-election campaign of Robert Morgenthau. He returned to the office in October of 1985. In June 1986, Mr. Cherkasky was appointed to head the Rackets Bureau and in January, 1990, was appointed the head of the Investigations Division of the New York County District Attorney's Office.
"A native of the Bronx, Mr. Cherkasky graduated from the Fieldston School and received his B.A. and J.D. degrees from Case Western Reserve University."

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=James_Dimon
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James (Jamie) Dimon became Chairman of the Board of JP Morgan Chase on December 31, 2006, after serving as CEO and President since December 31, 2005. Mr. Dimon had been the President and Chief Operating Officer since the bank’s merger with Bank One, in July of 2004. At Bank One, he served as Chairman and CEO since March of 2000. Prior to Bank One, he held various senior executive positions at Citigroup Inc., its subsidiary, Salomon Smith Barney, and its predecessor company, Travelers Group, Inc.
Mr. Dimon is a graduate of Tufts University and received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Harvard University Business School. He is a director of the College Fund/UNCF and serves on the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the National Institutes of Health Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, Catalyst and Harvard Business School. He is also on the Board of Trustees of New York University School of Medicine.[1] Mr. Dimon serves on the BOD for the Partnership for New York City and previously served on the BOD for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2004/10/26/47168.htm
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Jeff Greenberg
Jeff Greenberg
The Marsh & McLennan board of directors announced it has accepted the resignation of chairman and chief executive officer Jeffrey W. Greenberg.
Stepping in to immediately replace Greenberg is Michael G. Cherkasky, named president and chief executive officer. Cherkasky was also elected to the board of directors. He will also continue in his current role as chairman and chief executive
officer of the company’s risk and insurance services subsidiary Marsh Inc.




http://www.pfnyc.org/partners-associate.html
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Associate Partners
  1. AEA Investors Inc. Israel Discount Bank of New York
  2. Air Pegasus Heliport, Inc. K2 Global Partners, LLC
  3. Alverstoke Group LLC Kasirer Consulting
  4. The Beekman Estate Kekst and Company
  5. Bickel & Brewer Life Insurance Council of New York
  6. Bloomingdale’s Linden Alschuler & Kaplan, Inc.
  7. Blue Wolf Capital Management Lucius Pitkin, Inc.
  8. Bolton - St. John's, LLC Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP
  9. Bombardier Transportation Maximus Inc.
  10. Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. Melrose Credit Union
  11. Carl H. Pforzheimer & Co. Mitchell & Titus, LLP
  12. Carver Bancorp Inc. National Basketball Association
  13. Cassidy Turley New York Building Congress
  14. Chazen Capital Partners, LLC Ohrenstein & Brown, LLP
  15. China Center New York LLC Olshan Grundman Frome Rosenzweig & Wolosky LLP
  16. Constellation Energy Omgeo, LLC
  17. Corning Incorporated Palladium Equity Partners 
  18. Daffy's Paramount Group, Inc.
  19. DeVito/Verdi Patricia Lynch Associates Inc.
  20. Dominus Capital, L.P. Peter J. Solomon Company, L.P.
  21. E-J Electric Installation Co. RAL Companies & Affiliates, LLC 
  22. El Diario/La Prensa Razor & Tie Entertainment and KidzBop
  23. Eugene M. Grant and Company Roberts & Holland LLP
  24. FedEx Corporation SBLI USA Mutual Life Insurance Company, Inc.
  25. Fidelity Investments Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association
  26. The General Contractors Association of New York, Inc. Sofia Bros., Inc.
  27. Gillis Architects PC Stromsted Associates, LLC
  28. Gilt Groupe Sutherland, Asbill & Brennam LLP
  29. Greater Than One, Inc. Tonio Burgos & Associates, Inc.
  30. Habib American Bank URS Corporation
  31. Hugh O'Kane Electric Co., Inc. Walt Disney Company
  32. Hugo Neu Corporation Weiler Arnow Mgt. Co., Inc.
  33. Hutton & Solomon LLP Widmeyer Communications

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