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En het is alles behalve een kleine speler.

https://www.goodreturns.in/jeff-yass-net-worth-and-biography-blnr152.html

About Jeff Yass American billionaire Jeffrey S. Yass, with a net worth of $28.5 billion in 2023, stands as the world's 48th wealthiest individual and Pennsylvania's richest resident. As the co-founder and managing director of Susquehanna International Group, Yass hails from a Queens, New York middle-class Jewish family. A skilled trader and former professional gambler, Yass has deep political ties, mainly supporting Republican causes, and is heavily involved in educational philanthropy. He is a longstanding board member at the Cato Institute since 2002, emphasizing financial market expertise.

 

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Interessant dat hij ook geld voor de Ballroom heeft gedoneerd.

Jeffrey Yass, Pennsylvania’s richest man, helped bankroll Donald Trump’s $14 million presidential transition

Jeffrey Yass is on a list of 46 donors that contributed to President Donald Trump's transition team, The New York Times reported Wednesday.

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Pennsylvania’s richest man contributed an undisclosed amount to President Donald Trump’s presidential transition, which raised slightly more than $14 million.

Jeffrey Yass, a billionaire GOP megadonor, appeared on a list of 46 individuals — obtained by the New York Times and published Wednesday — who helped bankroll Trump’s transition. The publication of the list came a full year after Trump publicly promised to disclose the donors.

The transition team said it spent $13.7 million, according to the Times.

Yass’ name appearing on the list of donors was not shocking, as the billionaire has frequently used his financial capital to support Republican candidates both in Pennsylvania and nationally.

He contributed at least $2.5 million to Trump’s controversial White House ballroom while he and his Bala Cynwyd-based company, Susquehanna International Group, have business in front of the Trump administration. Yass is a major investor in ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, and Trump has used executive orders to delay a ban of the Chinese-owned social media app passed by Congress under former President Joe Biden.

 

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Dit spreekt voor zich.

GOP Megadonor Is Funding a Far-Right Israeli Think Tank — and Establishment Democrats

Pennsylvania billionaire Jeffrey Yass is bankrolling groups dedicated to shutting down critiques of Israeli human rights abuses.

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GOP Megadonor Is Funding a Far-Right Israeli Think Tank — and Establishment Democrats​

Pennsylvania billionaire Jeffrey Yass is bankrolling groups dedicated to shutting down critiques of Israeli human rights abuses.

Akela Lacy
February 16 2023, 11:11 a.m.
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A Likud party supporter holds a poster of Benjamin Netanyahu as he delivers an election campaign in Migdal HaEmek, Israel, on Oct. 23, 2022. Photo: Ariel Schalit/AP
The sole donor to a political action committee created to bolster the Democratic Party’s establishment flank is also funding a conservative Israeli think tank at the helm of the country’s rightward lurch.

Pennsylvania billionaire and Republican megadonor Jeffrey Yass is a key benefactor behind both the Moderate PAC, which fights progressive primary challengers in the United States, and the Kohelet Policy Forum, which is working to reshape the political system in Israel.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new administration has taken unprecedented steps to undermine democratic checks and balances, weaken the country’s Supreme Court, and further entrench the power of far-right politicians, all while ramping up violence against Palestinians. Those moves have been guided in part by Kohelet — at least one of whose members is also trying to influence congressional activity in the U.S.

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Billionaire Jeff Yass linked to $16m in donations to anti-Muslim and pro-Israel groups

The TikTok investor is also linked to funding challenges to progressive politicians and against Obama’s Iran nuclear deal

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