Thread by @SlatsHenry

1/ Richard (“Rick”) Gerson, a close friend of Jared Kushner, reportedly was in the Seychelles around the same time Erik Prince met w/Kirill Dmitriev, but Gerson could also be connected to Prince through his former boss and mentor, Julian Robertson Jr.
sandiegouniontribune.com/ny-news-jared-…

2/ Rick Gerson, a NY hedge fund manager, and his brother Mark, have close business and philanthropic ties to the Kushners, and is also connected to senior Emirati officials, including Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan (MBZ).

nytimes.com/2018/04/04/us/…

3/ According to NBC News, Rick Gerson, a New York hedge-fund manager, was in the Seychelles in January 2017, less than two weeks before Trump's inauguration.

nbcnews.com/politics/natio…

4/ Gerson’s visit to the remote island in the Indian Ocean was around the same time Erik Prince secretly met with MBZ from the UAE, as well as Putin associate Kirill Dmitriev.

5/ NBC News: “Gerson met with Prince Mohammed — also known by his initials as MBZ — and communicated with a Lebanese-American businessman with close ties to the UAE, George Nader, who had organized the Erik Prince meeting, according to text messages Gerson sent at the time ..."

6/ “Gerson had met Nader just weeks earlier when Trump officials, including Kushner, gathered for a secret meeting with MBZ at a Four Seasons hotel in New York, four people familiar with the meeting said.”

7/ “Trump's incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn and chief political adviser Steve Bannon, as well as the UAE's ambassador to the U.S., Yousef Otaiba, also attended the meeting.”

8/ Rick Gerson founded Falcon Edge Capital in 2012, and helped found Blue Ridge Capital as well. Gerson was formally an investment manager for Tiger Management Corporation, a hedge fund founded in 1980 by Julian Robertson Jr.

institutionalinvestor.com/article/b18g9y…

9/ According to Institutional Investor, “Gerson is known in the hedge fund community as a Tiger Grandcub, or an investment manager with ties to Julian Robertson Jr.’s legendary hedge fund, Tiger Management Corp.”

10/ According to Non-Profit Quarterly, Gerson’s former boss and mentor, Julian Robertson Jr., as late as 2014 sat on the Board of the Children’s Scholarship Fund, founded by the Walton Family to provide scholarships for children to attend private schools.

nonprofitquarterly.org/2014/01/28/nat…

11/ Along with Henry Kissinger, Trent Lott, and Stedman Graham, Oprah Winfrey’s social partner, Gerson's hedge fund associate Julian Robertson Jr., sat on the Board of the Children’s Scholarship Fund with fellow board member Dick DeVos.

12/ Dick DeVos, whose billions are derived from the Alticor/Amway fortune, is the
husband of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Erik Prince’s brother-in-law.