People finally seeing what this entrenched piece of shit's really been about?
Rand Paul backed by GOP donor with $33B TikTok stake (NYP) https://archive.is/nHtzZ Sources claim credit for Paul’s impassioned speech should go to GOP mega donor Jeffrey Yass. The billionaire CEO of Susquehanna Financial Group has given Paul more than $10 million since 2020, according to election filings. His fund also owns a 15% stake in TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, that’s worth an estimated $33 billion. https://archive.is/JUMYC During the current election cycle Jeff Yass has provided about 83% of all the money taken in by Paul’s two super PACs. In 2017, SIG launched Susquehanna Private Capital, LLC, which focuses on buyouts of U.S. middle market companies in the aerospace, industrials, consumer, healthcare, and business and government services industries
Jan 31, 2017, 06:00 ET BALA CYNWYD, Pa., Jan. 31, 2017 /PRNewswire/ – Susquehanna International Group, LLP (SIG) is pleased to announce the launch of a new private equity effort, Susquehanna Private Capital, LLC (SPC). SPC will be focused on buy outs of middle market companies across a broad spectrum of industries including aerospace, industrials, consumer, healthcare, and business and government services among others throughout the domestic United States. SPC further expands SIG's global private equity efforts which includes Susquehanna Growth Equity (SGE) and Susquehanna Asia Investments, LLLP. https://archive.is/uwK15
ByteDance Ltd. is aChineseinternet technology company headquartered in Haidian, Beijing, and incorporated in the Cayman Islands. …backed financially by Jeff Yass's Susquehanna International Group, Primavera Capital Group, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, SoftBank Group, Sequoia Capital, General Atlantic, and Hillhouse Capital Group…In 2014, ByteDance established an internal Chinese Communist Party (CCP) committee.The company's vice president, Zhang Fuping, is the company's CCP Committee Secretary. According to a report submitted to the Australian Parliament, Zhang Fuping stated that ByteDance should "transmit the correct political direction, public opinion guidance and value orientation into every business and product line."
Partnerships ByteDance has a strategic partnership with the Chinese Ministry of Public Security for the ministry's public relations efforts. The partnership also said that ByteDance would work with the Ministry of Public Security in cooperation on unspecified "offline activities." In 2018, ByteDance helped to establish the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, an initiative backed by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Beijing municipal government. In 2019, ByteDance formed joint ventures with Beijing Time, a publisher controlled by the Beijing municipal CCP committee… In June 2022, ByteDance partnered with Shanghai United Media Group to launch a plan to develop domestic and foreign influencers. https://archive.is/6izJZ
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul still travels large, courtesy of his political donors Fundraising takes him to European capitals, Western ski resorts BY: TOM LOFTUS - DECEMBER 3, 2024 5:50 AM FRANKFORT — Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul’s reelection committee spent nearly $50,000 this summer on luxurious hotels, restaurants and travel services during a trip to Sweden and Denmark. Expenses included $13,627 paid to Stockholm’s five-star Grand Hotel; $17,742 paid to a luxury travel service known as “Mr Charles,” of Stockholm, and $7,474 at some of the finest restaurants in Stockholm and Copenhagen, according to a report Paul filed recently with the (FEC).
~~The FEC forbids candidates for federal office from using their campaign funds to pay for personal trips or any personal expenses.~~ One campaign finance watchdog contacted by Kentucky Lantern found the concept of a European fundraiser puzzling simply becauseit is illegal for foreign nationals to donate to political campaigns in the United States.The pool of potential donors would be restricted to U.S. citizens living abroad or folks who fly to the fundraiser from their homes in the U.S. “It is rare for a U.S. senator to hold an overseas fundraiser. I would be surprised if there were a substantial number of U.S. nationals living in Denmark and Sweden who’ll give thousands of dollars to the junior senator from Kentucky,” said Brendan Fischer, deputy executive director for Documented, a Washington investigative watchdog and journalism project.
The 2018 report said RAND PAC used less than 7% of its spending that election cycle on helping fellow Republicans but spent $11,043 at restaurants in Italy and Malta, $4,492 on a limousine service in Rome and $1,904 at a hotel in Athens. https://archive.is/Za2de https://kentuckylantern.com/2024/12/03/u-s-sen-rand-paul-still-travels-large-courtesy-of-his-political-donors/