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...enrolled at Georgetown, and spent two years earning a masters in law degree (LL.M.), focusing on securities law. Once he got his chance at the SEC in September of 2004, the rookie was handed a case involving suspicious trading activity possibly based on someone tipping off Pequot Capital Management, Inc., a $7.4 billion Westport, Conn., hedge fund, to an impending General Electric purchase of Heller Financial. That someone, Aguirre soon believed, was most likely none other than John Mack. Pequot's CEO Arthur J. Samberg, according to the Senate report, was one of the first people Mack contacted after returning...
...There’s not a thing that our people haven’t gone through in the 350 years since the invaders came,” said Tall Oak Weeden, an historian, activist, and elder in the Wampanoag-Pequot tribe...
...website that he was “furious” about the resignation. Schneider wrote that he will be making a token $1 contribution to his class reunion gift, and encouraged others to join him.Byron R. Wien ’54, the chief investment strategist at Westport, Connecticut-based Pequot Capital who has served as a member of the executive committee of the Committee of University Resources (CUR), an advisory group of major alumni donors, says that he also refrained from donating this year as a result of the resignation.“The fact that [Summers] is no longer...
...didn't take the Bush Administration long to pick up where the Clintonites had left off. Last June, Bush appointees in the BIA recognized the Eastern Pequot, an amalgamation of two Connecticut tribes with casino plans that had received preliminary approval under Clinton. In the past four years, spanning both Administrations, the tribe and its investors paid $525,000 to Ronald Kaufman--a well-connected Republican lobbyist, White House political director for the first President Bush and a brother-in-law of current White House chief of staff Andrew Card--to press their case. The BIA's recognition came amid...
...help them recover "squaws" taken into slavery by English settlers. At that time the tribe numbered about 800 members, who fished the Housatonic and Naugatuck rivers and cultivated corn and other vegetables. Sun worshippers, they prayed to the east every morning. Many Paugussetts died fighting in the 1637 Pequot War against the English. After that war, much of their land was sold or taken away. By 1875 the Paugussetts had only a quarter-acre left, and the tribe had greatly dispersed...