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World Business Chicago, the quasi-governmental agency that is funded in part by taxpayer money, paid the way for Emanuel and an unspecified number of other government and nonprofit officials. Business leaders paid for themselves, Klinzman said. World Business Chicago did not respond to repeated requests to disclose whose travel it paid for. It is run by Emanuel and close confidant and top campaign donor Michael Sacks, the CEO of investment firm GCM Grosvenor, who did not attend.
Ten people who did travel to Asia with the mayor have ties to $1.85 million in campaign contributions to Emanuel, a Tribune analysis of campaign finance records shows. When the mayor traveled to the Vatican in 2016 for the elevation ceremony of Cardinal Blase Cupich, he took 24 top political backers with ties to $5.5 million in campaign contributions, the Tribune previously reported.
On this trip, one of the mayor’s most reliable campaign donors joined him in Asia: Rajiv Fernando, who founded the high-speed trading firm Chopper Trading and has since started the software company Workstorm. Fernando was a major bundler for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaigns, and he has held a fundraiser for Emanuel at his Bucktown home and personally has contributed $135,900 to the mayor’s campaign funds. His onetime employees at Chopper chipped in another $37,500, state campaign finance records show.
Who is in Asia with Emanuel? Campaign donors, lobbyists, developers, business heavyweights
The special favors that come with Emanuel. He isn't going to tell anyone about those meetings and the lesser people wont know where the tax money went.
Ten people who did travel to Asia with the mayor have ties to $1.85 million in campaign contributions to Emanuel, a Tribune analysis of campaign finance records shows. When the mayor traveled to the Vatican in 2016 for the elevation ceremony of Cardinal Blase Cupich, he took 24 top political backers with ties to $5.5 million in campaign contributions, the Tribune previously reported.
On this trip, one of the mayor’s most reliable campaign donors joined him in Asia: Rajiv Fernando, who founded the high-speed trading firm Chopper Trading and has since started the software company Workstorm. Fernando was a major bundler for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaigns, and he has held a fundraiser for Emanuel at his Bucktown home and personally has contributed $135,900 to the mayor’s campaign funds. His onetime employees at Chopper chipped in another $37,500, state campaign finance records show.
Who is in Asia with Emanuel? Campaign donors, lobbyists, developers, business heavyweights
The special favors that come with Emanuel. He isn't going to tell anyone about those meetings and the lesser people wont know where the tax money went.
