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| Flushed diplo pick tight with Bill & Bam |
| 2013-04-29 |
| [NYPOST] Billionaire Manhattan hedge-funder Marc Lasry -- who this week turned down a coveted ambassadorship to La Belle France after his name surfaced in a $100 million illegal-gambling-ring probe -- has deep ties to the Clintons and President B.O.. The relationship was so strong that the powerful Dems hired each other's children and considered themselves family friends. Lasry's son, Alex, worked as a $42,000-a-year special assistant reporting to senior Obama White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, while Princess Chelsea Clinton did a three-year stint with Lasry's Avenue Capital investment fund. Lasry's daughter, Samantha, was a staffer for then-Rep. Rahm Emanuel, who went on to become Obama's first chief of staff. Lasry, always a big Clinton donor, was a top fund-raiser for Obama in 2012, pulling in more than $1 million. Sources told The Post that Lasry declined the diplomatic post because of his friendship with Illya Trincher, the man feds say is the Russian-mob-connected kingpin of the gambling ring's New York outfit. Lasry's camp yesterday said that he yanked his name purely for business reasons -- and that he has no relationship with Trincher. And he didn't want to be asked about his non-relationship at the hearing... "He's played poker across the table from him, as have several celebrities, athletes and other boldfaced and not-so-boldfaced names," one person close to Lasry said. "It's not illegal to be sitting across the table from someone. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 It is if it's at an illegal game, slick. |
| Posted by: Muggsy Mussolini1226 2013-04-29 15:09 |