>>2522259 Digg: Bank for Intn'l Settlements Carsten is GM Univ of Chicago Alum
Carstens -- unusual name for a Mexican
>>2521701 LeBron James’ Rabbi (Kabbalah) was sent to prison for bribery
This LeBron/Pinto connection might have some legs.
Has anyone dug into Jay Schottenstein yet?
Agreed. A bit too forced, isn't it?
Might want to read the cliff-notes and go right to the author's bio. Very similar to Bill Browder's family history, though the Browders settled in Chicago.
https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/c/catch22/joseph-heller-biography
At NYU, under the tutelage of Professor Maurice Baudin, Heller came to believe that he could be a professional writer.
Heller earned his Master of Arts degree in American Literature from Columbia University the next year as well as a Fulbright Scholarship to study for a year at Oxford University in England.
Heller joined the corporate world as advertising manager at Time magazine. In 1953, he began working on a novel tentatively titled Catch-18.
Catch-22 was published in 1961. Although he taught creative writing courses at Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, Heller became a full-time writer for most of the next decade
Loop was bilking the IL pension funds even before Hussein. See Jim Reynolds, Jr. connection to Jesse Jackson.
But they did get a buttload of new corporate clients during his reign.
And a juicy relationship with the New York Fed.
https://www.housingwire.com/articles/32103-new-york-fed-chooses-three-firms-for-counterparty-pilot-program
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-fed-talf-idUSWNA253320090901