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Wall Street Journal Reports on Hedge Fund Managers Back Channel Effort to Takeover Connecticut School District
While the WSJ doesn’t include in its story that it was a Walton Family funded group whom facilitated the relationship, it reports on the curious contact between a billionaire hedge funder and the Connecticut State Board of Education to prompt the … Continue reading
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