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Eric Kessler founded Arabella Advisors and currently

works as a principal and senior managing director for the

firm. Kessler comes from a wealthy Chicago family whose

fortune originated with the 1998 sale of Fel-Pro, their autoparts manufacturer and “fifth-generation family-owned

business,” for a reported $750 million.19 20

Prior to joining the Clinton administration, Kessler was

national field director for the League of Conservation Voters,

a major 501(c)(4) environmental advocacy group that has

been described as a “dark money heavyweight” by the leftleaning Center for Public Integrity.21 He was later appointed

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to the Clinton administration to work on “conservation

issues.”22 According to a biography on the website Friends

of the Global Fight, Kessler later served as a member of

the Clinton Global Initiative, an arm of the Bill, Hillary &

Chelsea Clinton Foundation; his official Arabella Advisors

biography, however, makes no mention of his affiliation with

the scandal-ridden Clinton Foundation.23 (Former President

Bill Clinton has been criticized by the Washington Post for

“intermingling . . . foundation and paid work” through

millions of dollars in speaking fees paid by companies and

organizations that are also major donors to the Clinton

Foundation.)24

Kessler is also a board member of the Family Alliance

Foundation, his family’s grantmaking nonprofit, which largely

funds medical causes. The foundation also funds the World

Resources Institute, an environmentalist nonprofit created

with start-up capital from the MacArthur Foundation.