Roman Abramovich Thread

[Blues Forever 1,232]

1 minute ago, NikkiCFC said:

This guy Griffin is richest of all Americans mentioned before.

Bad news along with The Ricketts family.

[Blues Forever 1,232]

 

Edited March 16, 2022 by Blues Forever

[Pizy 17,860]

Ken Griffin is your stereotypical mega rich hedge fund guy. He often makes headlines here in the States for donating huge sums of cash to right wing shitheads like Trump and pushing for the slashing of taxes for the ultra-wealthy so they can line their pockets even more. He is also very well known in real estate circles for buying some of the most expensive properties in the world, including spending a record $238 million on the most expensive flat in history in NYC.

He likes to launder his shady reputation by donating to museums and charities like anyone of his stature. 

Basically, he’s like the mega-rich movie villain who everyone roots against.

 

[NikkiCFC 7,580]

3 minutes ago, Blues Forever said:

Bad news along with The Ricketts family.

From what I read about Ken I like him a lot.

And has some similarities with Roman. Likes sport, has art collection (spent over billion for paintings), divorced a couple of times, had stars singing for him at private parties. A lot of charity work.

Guy donated hundreds of millions to museums. And education as well. Top lad.

 

[Blues Forever 1,232]

 

[Vesper 27,310]

6 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Ken Griffin is your stereotypical mega rich hedge fund guy. He often makes headlines here in the States for donating huge sums of cash to right wing shitheads like Trump and pushing for the slashing of taxes for the ultra-wealthy so they can line their pockets even more. He is also very well known in real estate circles for buying some of the most expensive properties in the world, including spending a record $238 million on the most expensive flat in history in NYC.

He likes to launder his shady reputation by donating to museums and charities like anyone of his stature. 

Basically, he’s like the mega-rich movie villain who everyone roots against.

 

In a 2012 interview with the Chicago Tribune, Griffin said that the rich actually have too little influence in politics.^[96] Griffin identified as a Ronald Reagan Republican. He said the belief "that a larger government is what creates prosperity, that a larger government is what creates good" is wrong.^[97]

In a November 2015 interview on CNBC, Griffin said he admires Scott Walker claiming he is an "absolute champion of free markets and a champion of smaller government".^[98]

In April 2016, because Citadel owned over 1 million shares of McDonald's, Griffin was the target of protestors supporting the Fight for $15.^[99]

In May 2017, Griffin praised Donald Trump’s efforts at tax and healthcare reform^[100]

In 2018, it was announced that Griffin had been appointed the national finance chair for the New Republican PAC fueling, Senator Rick Scott‘s Super PAC.^[101]

In November 2018, Griffin criticized Donald Trump's tweets berating Chair of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell calling the tweets "completely inappropriate for the president of the United States".^{[102][103][104][105]}

In January 2019, Griffin was singled out by Elizabeth Warren on a Facebook post as someone who can pay her Ultra-Millionaire Tax.^[106] During a March 2019 interview with David Rubenstein, Griffin criticized Elizabeth Warren's proposals saying "soaking the rich doesn't work".^[107]

In January 2020, Griffin was absent from a signing ceremony for the phase-one trade deal with China at the White House, for which he was criticized by President Donald Trump.^{[108][109][105]}

In September 2020, Griffin wrote an op-ed published in the Chicago Tribune stating his opposition to Governor of Illinois J. B. Pritzker's "Fair Tax" proposal that would change Illinois income tax from a flat tax to a graduated tax.^[110][111]

In an October 2020 email to Citadel LLC's Chicago employees, Griffin criticized Pritzker's tax plan and alluded to the possibility of moving his company out of Illinois.^[112][113]

While being interviewed by Paul Tudor Jones at the Robin Hood Foundation investor conference in October 2020, Griffin criticized Joe Biden's plans to raise the long-term capital gains tax rate.

In a 2012 interview, Griffin said that people should be able to make unlimited contributions to politicians, but that these contributions should be public.^[116]

Griffin has made political donations to conservative political candidates, parties, and organizations such as American Crossroads and the Republican Governors Association.^[116]

During the 2010 United States elections, Griffin donated $721,600 to federal candidates and political committees. Except for a $2,400 contribution to then United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Chairman Chris Dodd, all of the contributions were to Republicans.^[117]

In December 2015, Griffin endorsed Marco Rubio for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination and stated that he planned to donate millions to a pro-Rubio super PAC.^[118] Before this endorsement, Griffin had donated $100,000 each to three super PACs supporting Rubio, Jeb Bush, and Scott Walker for the GOP nomination.^[119]

Griffin was the was the biggest donor to Rahm Emanuel’s campaign for second term as Mayor of Chicago.^[96]

After Trump won the 2016 Republican nomination, Griffin did not contribute to his campaign.^[120]

In 2017, he contributed $20 million to the campaign of Governor of Illinois Bruce Rauner.^[121]

In March 2020, Griffin contributed $1 million to the 1820 PAC created to support the re-election bid of U. S. Senator Susan Collins in Maine.^[122] In late 2020, Griffin donated another $500,000 to the 1820 PAC.^[123]

In 2020, Griffin donated $20 million to the Coalition To Stop The Proposed Tax Hike Amendment, a group opposing the Illinois Fair Tax in its 2020 referendum.^[111][124] Weeks later, he donated another $26.75 million to the coalition.^[125][126] Griffin later donated another $7 million to the group bringing his total contributions to $53.75 million.^[127][128]

In 2020, Griffin donated $2 million to an anti-retention effort for Justice Thomas L. Kilbride, a democrat on the Supreme Court of Illinois.^[129][130]

Griffin supported Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in the 2020–21 United States Senate election in Georgia.^[131] In October 2020, He was criticized for a $2 million contribution to a Super PAC supporting Loeffler and funded by her husband, New York Stock Exchange Chairman Jeffrey Sprecher, just after one of Citadel LLC's companies needed approval from Sprecher for a merger.^[132]

Griffin contributed a total of $66 million to the 2020 United States elections.^[133]

Citadel gave $800,000 to Janet Yellen for speaking fees.^[134]

In 2021, Griffin donated $5 million to Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida.^[135] Griffin's donations to DeSantis prompted criticism of a possible conflict of interest when DeSantis began promoting Regeneron Pharmaceuticals' therapeutic treatment for COVID-19; Griffin's Citadel Securities owned $15.9 million of shares in Regeneron.^{[136][137][138][139]} A spokesperson for Citadel denied any wrongdoing, noting that the hedge fund has much larger investments in Pfizer and Moderna.^[136][137]

Later in 2021, Griffin promised to donate twice the amount to the Republican opponent of incumbent governor J. B. Pritzker that Pritzker gives to himself for the 2022 Illinois gubernatorial election. Pritzker has so far given $15 million to his campaign which now has the potential to become one of the costliest elections of the 2022 midterms. ^[140]

[Pizy 17,860]

^ yeah, he’s not a good guy. He has directly contributed to the awful state of US politics in a big way.

[OhForAGreavsie 5,775]

37 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Ken Griffin is your stereotypical mega rich hedge fund guy. He often makes headlines here in the States for donating huge sums of cash to right wing shitheads like Trump

Assuming this is true it would be a total deal breaker for me.

Edited March 16, 2022 by OhForAGreavsie

[NikkiCFC 7,580]

1 minute ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

Total deal breaker for me.

I dont see why. He is Republican like half US. There is not wrong or right there. Like supporting Real or Barca. Just personal preference.

Zero influence on us or Chelsea. Our last owner was close to Putin ffs and was amazing owner. Griffin donated 150m to Harvard or 40m to MOMA. That tells more about him.

If he is willing to spend over billion on paintings on his walls he is willing to spend big on football club. 

 

[Blues Forever 1,232]

Raine should disqualify The Ricketts, Woody Johnson, and Vivek Ranadive.

Edited March 16, 2022 by Blues Forever

[Pizy 17,860]

Ricketts family is highly scrutinized by the Cubs fans for being cheap as hell. If they are the head honchos here we’d probably become Spuds or Arse. Very limited spending.

[MoroccanBlue 5,197]

Looks like the Ricketts-Griffin bid is expected to to meet the 3bn asking price. 

[chelsea_4_eva 1,142]

Habibi please

[Pizy 17,860]

Whoever it ends up being, the first order of business needs to be ensuring Tuchel is happy and making him feel like the ambition to compete at the very top remains. He should be offered a fresh contract to stave off any sharks that may be circling and give him his top targets this summer.

[MoroccanBlue 5,197]

Just now, Pizy said:

Whoever it ends up being, the first order of business needs to be ensuring Tuchel is happy and making him feel like the ambition to compete at the very top remains. He should be offered a fresh contract to stave off any sharks that may be circling and give him his top targets this summer.

I hope Rudiger's and Christensen's agents are whispering in their ear to hold off on signing with anyone else until the new owners come and see what they offer. 

[Superblue 6,331]

6 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Whoever it ends up being, the first order of business needs to be ensuring Tuchel is happy and making him feel like the ambition to compete at the very top remains. He should be offered a fresh contract to stave off any sharks that may be circling and give him his top targets this summer.

Making sure Tuchel is settled and getting Rudiger resigned are the two most important things, over any new signings this summer.

If whomever the new owner is can sort those two things as soon as they're in place, I'll be happy to give them time and patience to see what their plans are for the club.

[MoroccanBlue 5,197]

1. Tuchel

2. Rudiger

3. Christensen

4. Stadium plans and continuing academy investment. 

[Blues Forever 1,232]

2 minutes ago, MoroccanBlue said:

1. Tuchel

2. Rudiger

3. Christensen

4. Stadium plans and continuing academy investment. 

Christensen already made his choice to leave.