https://freebeacon.com/issues/tom-steyers-deep-ties-to-oregon-corruption-scandal/
Top advisers to the billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer helped run a green group, financed in part by Steyer himself, that is at the center of a corruption scandal that could force the Democratic governor of Oregon to resign.
An executive at one of Steyer’s nonprofit groups and a political vendor who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the hedge fund manager’s political operations helped run the group, which is accused of influencing state energy policy through undisclosed payments to Oregon’s first lady.
Those pesky Panama papers
https://freebeacon.com/issues/steyer-invested-chinese-premiers-family-tax-haven-leak-reveals/
Billionaire Democratic donor Tom Steyer helped finance a company used by the family of China’s former head of state to park investments in overseas tax havens, leaked corporate documents reveal.
Steyer’s hedge fund joined a firm with ties to the family of China’s then-premier in an early investment round for a British Virgin Islands-based company, according to incorporation documents on file with a Singaporean corporate law and accounting firm at the center of a global scandal over opaque financial flows.
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Farallon under Steyer was very active in China, particularly in the country’s energy sector. It launched a spinoff venture capital fund in the country in 2009. Farallon also struck deals in parts of the world that benefitted from the political connections of the firm’s co-investors, such as the former Soviet Union of the mid-1990s.
Farallon’s EMarket deal was well timed. Two months after Farallon invested in the company, Skyflying formed a joint venture with the German-listed company Business Media China, which saw potential to boost advertising sales ahead of the Beijing Olympics that summer.
Spokespeople for Farallon and NextGen did not respond to requests for comment about this story.