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New: I dug into the National Enquirer's finances and found a doozy.

During the 2016 campaign, records suggest National Enquirer's largest financial backer was — drumroll — CalPERS, California's state pension fund, which may have owned a *third* of AMI! latimes.com/nation/la-na-n…
CalPERS wouldn't give me any details about its investment in AMI. But here's the paper trail: latimes.com/nation/la-na-n…
“I’m sure lots of CalPERS [plan holders] will be happy to know they were paying hush money to help get Trump elected." latimes.com/nation/la-na-n…
CalPERS responds:
Naked Capitalism makes the case that my article about CalPERS owning up to one-third of AMI, the National Enquirer’s parent company, is a big ol’ nothingburger:

nakedcapitalism.com/2019/02/los-an…
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uhhhhhhhhh cnn.com/2019/02/20/med…
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