Word: moneyman
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McAuliffe is the rare moneyman who has linked his personal life with his President. Not since Hollywood mogul Arthur Krim roamed the Lyndon Baines Johnson White House has one fund raiser done so much for one political family. He has raised more than $300 million for Clinton causes, including the presidential library ($75 million), Clinton's legal bills ($8 million), Hillary's Senate campaign ($5 million) and the President's millennium celebration ($17 million). When no one else came through to help the First Family buy a house in New York's Westchester County, McAuliffe interrupted a golf game with...
McAuliffe earned a law degree from Georgetown University, but except for a brief stint in a lobbying shop, he spent most of his early years not making money but raising it. And that is perhaps McAuliffe's most distinguishing feature as a moneyman--what separates him from those who've gone before him. People like Wasserman were multimillionaires before they got into politics. McAuliffe has done it the other way, using his political contacts to become a multimillionaire. In 1995 he acquired a bankrupt home-building business in Orlando, Fla., with the help of American Financial Corp. after soliciting...
...Easton Ellis at the end of the '80s. For Ellis, the death of feeling among hip young urbanites was a criminal act. And so, in his black-comic tour de force novel American Psycho, Ellis pushed past parody into nightmare farce. He created, in his antihero Patrick Bateman, a moneyman with a true killer instinct: mergers and acquisitions become murders and executions. "I have all the characteristics of a human being," Patrick (Christian Bale) says in Mary Harron's handsome, icily funny film version, "but not a single identifiable human emotion, except for greed and disgust...