Is this anything?
So many famous and semi-famous people are having their names pop up in the evidence files relating to the late sicko human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. This week, Adam Wyden, son of Senator Ron Wyden ("D"-"Ore."), joined the club. I'm sure the lackeys in Polythene Pam's Justice Department were chuckling as they released those documents.
The files include a few email messages indicating that Wyden Jr. was preparing to meet with Epstein at the latter's infamous Manhattan mansion, in order to try to get Epstein to deposit money in investment funds run by Wyden Jr.'s firm, ADW Capital Management. In one message, Wyden Jr. is said to be the one initiating the contact, through Jonathan Farkas.
This exchange took place in 2016, by which time Epstein had been a convicted sex offender, and a highly publicized one, for eight years.
So does this revelation embarrass rich young Wyden, or his somewhat less rich old father? Every now and then, the two of them act like they don't get along, at least not politically, and so if there's any shade cast on Daddy here, maybe he can shrug it off on that ground. (Besides, he's reportedly got his hands full with the situation with his other, much younger, son.)
But Wyden Sr. has been the Democrat in Congress bleating the loudest about punishing those bad, bad people who had money dealings with Epstein. The emails with his son seem more than a little ironic in that light.
Meanwhile, even for Adam, über-wealthy Master of the Universe, can he take a hall pass because, after all, he was just trrying to make money? I dunno. Last week our feckless attorney general suggested that pedophilia should be excused so long as the Dow is above 50,000, and we all scoffed. Is this the same thing, sort of?
The files are here:
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA02053077.pdf
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02385653.pdf
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA02053887.pdf
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA02052928.pdf
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02703230.pdf
It’s not nothing - is anyone going to ask him about it?
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ReplyDeleteYES news media must ask Wyden (senator) about his kid Adam...here is 2021 report from The Hill on 12/10/21 Tried to post but blocked because my post is "too long."
ReplyDeleteA disagreement over taxes between Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and his son Adam Wyden has become increasingly public in recent weeks as Democrats seek to enact a social spending package that is paid for in part by tax increases on high earners.
Ron Wyden, 72, is a leading proponent of raising taxes on the rich, and he’s been pushing to add to the social spending package his proposal to tax billionaires’ unrealized capital gains annually. Adam Wyden, a 37-year-old, Florida-based hedge fund owner, has criticized his father’s efforts to raise taxes on the rich on social media and in media interviews.
The dispute between father and son was spotlighted in a New York Times article on Friday.
A disagreement over taxes between Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and his son Adam Wyden has become increasingly public in recent weeks as Democrats seek to enact a social spending package that is paid for in part by tax increases on high earners.
Ron Wyden, 72, is a leading proponent of raising taxes on the rich, and he’s been pushing to add to the social spending package his proposal to tax billionaires’ unrealized capital gains annually. Adam Wyden, a 37-year-old, Florida-based hedge fund owner, has criticized his father’s efforts to raise taxes on the rich on social media and in media interviews.
The dispute between father and son was spotlighted in a New York Times article on Friday.
“The issue is bigger than my father. I’m not interested in discussing anything personal,” Adam Wyden told the Times. He described himself to the Times as a libertarian.
Ron Wyden told the Times, “He doesn’t talk to me about his business, and I don’t talk to him about mine.”
The Times article noted that Adam Wyden last month responded on a Twitter thread in which his father took issue with Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s poll about whether he should sell 10 percent of his stock in the company.
“Why does he hate us / the American dream so much?!?!?!?!” the younger Wyden tweeted. “Reality is: most legislators have never built anything… so I guess it’s easier to mindlessly and haphazardly try and tear stuff down.”
“Thankfully, I think I can compound faster than my dad and his cronies can confiscate it,” Adam Wyden said in a second tweet.
The younger Wyden subsequently was asked about his tweets in a CNBC interview.
In the interview, Adam Wyden said that he and his father “have a mutual respect for one another” and that his tweets were “made a little bit tongue in cheek.” But he also said he wants to ensure that people continue to come to the United States to build businesses.
“It’s clear to me that the people that are making these policy decisions have never experienced the up and downs of running a business,” he told CNBC.
The Times reported that Adam Wyden would not personally be hurt by his father’s billionaire tax proposal, which currently is not in the social spending package, but could be affected by a provision in the House’s version of the bill that would create a 5 percent surtax on income above $10 million.
An extra article got attached so deleted it and this is The Hill 10/12/21 report
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