Blackâs early education, according to google:
The core of our educational program is the study and practice of ethics, which prepares and compels us to take care of our world, ourselves, and each other.
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Haha the minor b6 arpeggio. Itâs definitely a thing.
Do real reporting? Nah letâs just do this: JFC the media in this country
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If anyone can break the paywall give cliffs.
I think she means that she gave Leon Black some tax-related advice.
Yeah a lot of people called her (Pao) out iirc.
Wait so the $150 million wasnât for âtax planning?â NO WAY
Reminder that the NYT report on Black/Epstein was headlined like this:
Paragraphs 2 and 3:
So what did Jeffrey Epstein do to earn hundreds of millions of dollars from a handful of wealthy clients like the private equity billionaire Leon Black?
The answer: help rich people pay less in taxes.
The first paragraph in which any even mild skepticism is expressed is literally paragraph 17:
Jack Blum, a Washington lawyer who has led corruption investigations for several Senate committees, said he was surprised by the size of the fees Mr. Epsteinâs work commanded. âYou could be the best lawyer in Manhattan working on the most complicated trusts and estates and it would never come anywhere close to that kind of money,â he said.
How the authors characterised their report on Twitter:
Apollo claims that the $158 million that Jeffrey Epstein was paid for his work helping Leon Black avoid taxes was reasonable. We took a deep look and areâŚskeptical.
FUCK YOU. American journalists have to be the most cowardly group of people on the fucking planet.
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I would have bought he made billions playing pro basketball over this line of bullshit.
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Well, they may be cowards but on the other hand theyâre also lazy and stupid.
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While this is true, laziness and stupidity isnât the problem here. The problem is what @Trolly has pointed out before, which is that the default position of American media is âletâs pretend to be raised-by-wolves fucking moronsâ. Thatâs what they think âobjectivityâ is, and they think that because itâs safer to write stories that way.
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This is part of the laziness though. Just printing âDems say Obviously True Thing but Republicans say Up Is Downâ and calling it a day is laziness even if they like to dress it up as objectivity.