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James B. Stewart - Wikipedia

He is a former associate at New York law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore, which he left in 1979 to become executive editor of The American Lawyer magazine. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B._…

Cravath has represented noted American inventors Samuel F.B. Morse, in the late 1840s; Cyrus McCormick, Elias Howe, and Charles Goodyear in the 1850s; and George Westinghouse in the 1880s.

James B. Stewart later joined The Wall Street Journal, where earned the 1987 Gerald Loeb

Award for Deadline and/or Beat Writing. He shared the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism and the Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers for his articles about the 1987 dramatic upheaval in the stock market and insider trading. These writings led to the publishing of

his best-selling work of non-fiction called Den of Thieves (1991), which recounted the criminal conduct of Wall Street arbitrager Ivan Boesky and junk bond king Michael Milken.

On August 12, 2019, Stewart reported on a conversation he had with convicted sex offender

Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein reportedly told Stewart that he was advising Elon Musk and Tesla. Stewart was also told by Epstein that he had dirt on powerful people including personal details about their sexual activities and drug use.

Boesky was born to a Jewish family in Detroit,

Michigan. His family owned several delicatessens and taverns in the city. He attended the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills before graduating from Detroit's Mumford High School.

John Bugas's main home was his sprawling country estate in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, which he

named Woodland.

Woodland became the unofficial site for many discreet Ford meetings (as well as discreet poker games), including with Henry Ford II, Robert McNamara, Lee Iacocca, Carroll Shelby, and J. Edgar Hoover. It was also the site of large Republican fund-raising parties

in 1976 with President Gerald Ford and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller in attendance and in 1980 with presidential candidate Ronald Reagan.

Upon Bugas's death, Woodland was purchased by Max Fisher's close friend Alfred Taubman.

A. Alfred Taubman served as a mentor for

Les Wexner, starting in the mid 1960s, and the two partnered on many deals involving Taubman's shopping malls over the years.

Wexner hired Jeffrey Epstein as his financial manager beginning sometime in the 1980s and continuing until 2007.

In 1991, Wexner formed with

billionaire Charles Bronfman the Study Group, which is more widely known as the Mega Group. The group was a loosely organized club of some of the country's wealthiest and most influential businessmen who were concerned with Jewish issues. Max Fisher, Michael Steinhardt,

Leonard Abramson, Edgar Bronfman, and Laurence Tisch were some of the members.

Leonard Abramson (born in 1932, Pennsylvania) is a philanthropist and the founder and former CEO of U.S. Healthcare.

Abramson attended the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, driving a taxi

for cash to cover his expenses. After graduating, he worked as a salesman for pharmaceutical company Parke-Davis.

Madlyn Abramson was a cancer survivor, and the gave donation summing up to $140 million to build the Abramson Cancer Research Institute at the University of

Pennsylvania Cancer Center. Additional contributions were given to fund the Leonard and Madlyn Abramson Pediatric Research Center in the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, professorships and chairs in the University of Pennsylvania and in Johns Hopkins' medical schools, and to

the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD).

In 2018, AP reported that the United Arab Emirates has wired $2,500,000 to the FDD through Elliott Broidy and George Nader, to host a conference amidst Qatar diplomatic crisis about the country's role as a state-sponsor of

terrorism.

Clifford D. May (born 1951) is an American journalist, editor, political activist, and podcast host. He is the founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a think tank created shortly after the 9/11 attacks.

May is also a member of the

Henry Jackson Society.

The Society is named after the American politician Henry “Scoop” M. Jackson.

The initial signatories of the statement of principles included:
•Members of Parliament Michael Ancram, Michael Gove, Edward Vaizey, David Willetts, Denis

MacShane, Fabian Hamilton, Gisela Stuart,
•former MPs David Trimble, Jackie Lawrence, Greg Pope,
•former soldier Tim Collins,
•Richard Dearlove, former head of the British Secret Intelligence Service, and formerly Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge

•American economist Irwin Stelzer.
•Times Journalist Oliver Kamm
International patrons included Richard Perle, William Kristol, former CIA Director R. James Woolsey Jr., and former Lithuanian leader Vytautas Landsbergis.