From: Gary S. Gevisser [gsg@sellnext.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 9:59 PM
To: Richard Cooper

 

Richard hi - I hope all is well with you and the family and that things with your father’s estate are moving forward positively. I am planning on coming to New York sometime this summer altho I will most likely be spending more time in Europe.

 

A number of things are up in the air to mention little of having got married to the woman of my dreams sum 63 days ago after a journey thru life that was already well into its 10th year.

 

Quite a lot is happening in my life right now, all for the positive altho I feel at times tested to the limit. I am mostly focused on completing the writing of my book Manager Minute One that now has members of the mainstream media TV and print knocking on my door. With or without the support of the media I know for certain I have a blockbuster on my hands and with its success, however, will bring about a number of busts, mostly myths that have kept the have knots from getting their rightful share.

 

One of the things I wanted to clear up was something I came across in a virulently anti-Semitic website that had references to Michael Steinhardt and his father. The address for the site is http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2002/2929lieb_mccain.html

 

Below is my “cut and paste” re the steinhardts

 

Lieberman Backer Michael Steinhardt

The same motto could apply, equally, to another of Joe Lieberman's leading mob-tainted patrons, Michael Steinhardt. Steinhardt ran one of the filthiest hedge funds on Wall Street during the 1980s and 1990s, Steinhardt Management. In conjunction with another large Wall Street hedge fund, Caxton Corp., Michael Steinhardt ran a thoroughly illegal conspiracy to corner the market on an April 1991 two-year U.S. Treasury bond issuance. Steinhardt and his chief partner-in-crime, Caxton founder Bruce Kovner, made an instant killing, netting between $200-600 million (by Steinhardt's own account in his recent autobiography, No Bull). But several years later, the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission landed on Steinhardt, Kovner and Salomon Brothers, which ran a parallel, and apparently coordinated cornering operation on a later Treasury auction.

On Dec. 16, 1994, the SEC and DOJ issued a joint press release, announcing that "Two of the country's leading investment fund managers, Steinhardt Management Company, Inc. and Caxton Corporation, have agreed to pay $76 million to settle antitrust and securities charges," which had been filed in Federal Court in the Southern District of New York.

The government complaint had noted that "The conspiracy had a dangerous probability of damaging the Treasury of the United States.... Above all, this represented an attempt to disrupt and render ineffective a part of the market of the sovereign debt of the United States."

Remarkably—or not so remarkably—Steinhardt avoided jail, and did not even face felony prosecution for the scam. Perhaps Steinhardt's intimate ties to both Lieberman and then-Vice President Al Gore had something to do with Steinhardt's good fortune. At the time of the Treasury market conspiracy, Steinhardt was the Chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council, the "Third Way" caucus in the Democratic Party that he had bankrolled from the mid-1980s, when it was launched out of Pamela Harriman's "Democrats for the 80s" group. When Steinhardt quit as DLC chairman in 1995, over his personal hatred for President Bill Clinton, the vacancy was filled by Steinhardt's favorit pol, Joe Lieberman.

In his autobiography, Steinhardt candidly admitted that he was a Barry Goldwater Republican, and a Buckleyite National Review booster. Steinhardt, Lieberman and Gore would go on to play a pivotal role in the attempted coup d'état of Sept. 1998, when they tried to convince President Clinton to resign over the Monica Lewinsky affair.

At issue at the time was President Clinton's and Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin's threat to crack down on the speculative activities of Wall Street hedge funds, as part of their effort to establish a "new global financial architecture," an effort bearing some similarity to Lyndon LaRouche's well-known call, at the time, for the convening of a New Bretton Woods conference to place the global financial system through bankruptcy reorganization, modeled on FDR's 1944 action.

Red, Meyer and Jimmy Blue Eyes

Steinhardt had been well-schooled in crime. His father, Sol "Red" Steinhardt, was the leading jewel fence for the Meyer Lansky syndicate. "Red" Steinhardt's most intimate mob ally was Vincent "Jimmy Blue Eyes" Alo, a Genovese family hit-man, who happened also to be Lansky's partner in casinos in Havana, Cuba and southern Florida.

"Red" Steinhardt was arrested in 1958 on jewelry theft charges, and was jailed a year later. Son Michael, who was put through the Wharton School by his father's ill-gotten gains, organized the appeal, and hired attorney O. John Rogge, who had earned a reputation by working with Roy Cohn in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, on charges they passed U.S. nuclear weapons secrets to Moscow. Rogge represented David Greenglass, Ethel Rosenberg's brother and the key witness against the couple. "Red" got out of jail after only two years, served in Sing Sing and the maximum security Danamora prison, and immediately began pouring his mobbed-up money into his son's brokerage business.

Michael Steinhardt is not only Joe Lieberman's most prominent public booster. Since shutting down his hedge fund in the wake of the Treasury scandal, Steinhardt has emerged as a major player in the Bronfman-founded Mega Group, a secretive collection of 50 or so Zionist billionaires, who have provided the financial and propaganda backing to Ariel Sharon's Jabotinskyite fascist government, since February 2001.

Steinhardt is now the chairman of Martin Peretz's The New Republic, and a director, along with the Hollinger Corporation's Conrad Black, Bruce Kovner, and Alliance Capital boss Roger Hertog, of the newly launched New York Sun. This is an unabashed Mega propaganda sheet, boosting the McCain-Lieberman assault on the Presidency.