Breaking: David Corn Reveals Host and Location of Secretly Recorded Fundraiser
Posted: September 17, 2012 Filed under: 2012 presidential campaign, U.S. Politics | Tags: Marc Leder, Mitt Romney, wild parties 53 Comments
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David Corn was just on the Rachel Maddow show and said the source of the devastating videos of Mitt Romney at a high dollar fund-raised had given him permission to reveal the date, location and host of the fundraiser that he/she surreptitiously recorded.
The fundraiser was hosted by Marc Leder, a private equity executive, at his home in Boca Raton on May 17, 2012. According to Wikipedia, Leder is co-CEO of Sun Capital Parners, Inc. Corn also stated that the source told him Leder is known for throwing wild parties that resemble orgies. In fact Corn said that at a party in the Hamptons this summer guests were seen performing sex acts.
Josh Marshall has this from the NYT:
According to the New York Post, Leder throws a pretty mean party.
His “wild end-of-summer bash was the talk of the Hamptons this year,” the Post reported last December. “At the Bridgehampton home that Leder rented for a whopping $500,000 a month, guests cavorted nude in a pool and performed sex acts, while scantily clad Russian women danced on platforms. Dancers at the party also twirled flaming torches to booming beats.”
From a report on the fundraiser at the Palm Beach Sun Sentinel:
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney wrapped up a two-day Florida fundraising flurry with a pair of invitation-only events in Boca Raton on Thursday night.
Romney’s first Boca stop was a reception at Woodfield Country Club and then on to a $50,000-a-plate dinner at the home of Marc Leder, co-founder of private equity firm Sun Capital Partners.
The Palm Beach Post provides more background on Leder:
Mitt Romney will make some money stops in Florida on Wednesday and Thursday, including a $50,000-a-plate dinner at private equity mogul Marc Leder‘s Boca Raton home.
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Leder has given $125,000 to the pro-Romney superPAC Restore Our Future and showered contributions on a variety of Republican candidates, including Sen. Marco Rubio and Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown. In Florida’s 2012 Senate race, Leder gave $5,000 to Adam Hasner‘s GOP campaign before Hasner switched to a U.S. House race; Leder recently gave $2,500 to Rep. Connie Mack‘s Senate bid.
The New York Times ran a profile of Leder in January of this year (quoted by Josh Marshall above). Here’s more from the article:
IT was, the gossip pages would later report, the talk of the Hamptons — a midsummer night’s bacchanal in the playground of the 1 percent.
Beyond the windswept dunes in Bridgehampton, at a $400,000-a-month oceanfront mansion, bright young things bubbled up and the Champagne flowed fast. Into the small hours, professional dancers in exotic clothing gyrated atop platforms. One couple twirled flaming torches. The sounds of techno boomed over the beach.
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Mr. Leder, 50, is virtually unknown outside financial circles. But from his headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., he presides over a multibillion-dollar private empire. He is a practitioner of a Wall Street art that helped define an age of hyperwealth, and which has now been dragged into the white-hot spotlight of presidential politics: private equity.
It was through private equity that one Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, amassed his wealth — and, it turns out, it was through private equity that Mr. Romney first met Mr. Leder. A couple of months after the blowout in Bridgehampton, Mr. Leder was host for a fund-raiser at his Boca Raton home for Mr. Romney’s campaign. But the connection goes back even further. Years ago, a visit to Mr. Romney’s investment firm inspired Mr. Leder to get into private equity in the first place. Mr. Romney was an early investor in some of the deals done by Mr. Leder’s investment company, Sun Capital, which today oversees about $8 billion in equity.
Here’s the Post story reference in the NYT: Nude frolic in tycoon’s pool
So this is the type of guy that modest Mormon Mitt likes to hang with. Wow!
I will add anything more I can find on Leder and the fund raiser in question in the comment thread.
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David Corn at Mother Jones: Romney “47 Percent” Fundraiser Host: Hedge Fund Manager Who Likes Sex Parties
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/09/romney-secret-video-marc-leder-sex-parties
A typical “values voter”. /s
The rules apply to other people.
There is something tragically sick with society today. I just have no words to express my disgust for these people.
Me either HT
David Corn on Lawrence O’Donnell’s show now.
Corn says he will be revealing more on the Romney fundraiser tomorrow.
O’Donnell says Mitt Shitty held a “press availability” tonight. Mitt took three questions ( from whom, I don’t know ). Romney said his comments at the fundraiser “were not elegantly stated” and were “off the cuff” ( meaning he was actually saying what he believes ). O’Donnell calls it “Romney’s little apology moment”. Film coming later.
Film of Romney’s “press availability” up next on MSNBC.
Mitt Shitty smirking while “apologizing”. Doesn’t sound like any kind of apology to me. Cretin.
Not elegant! Hahahahaha! That’s all that bothers him? Oh, you can’t make this shit up.
Mitt Romney sounds like a blogger I spent about 6-9 months fighting with prior to arriving here. Now I’m wondering if that blogger and some others at that blog are members of the Mitt insider club because they used language during our daily jousting matches that was nearly verbatim to the words spoken by Mitt Romney as he discussed the “entitled” 47%.
I think Mitt has totally disqualified himself to serve as POTUS. And Reince Preibus, GOP party chair, is doubling down on Romney’s “Off the cuff” comments.
BTW, during the GOP convention Paul Ryan also made the statement that “47% of Americans are on some sort of government assistance” and I commented at the time that the only way to get to that number is to add Social Security, Medicare, Veterans benefits, Student Loan and Unemployment recipients. I hate to break it to Romney and Ryan but we citizens pay for our own SS, Medicare, Veterans benefits and Unemployment insurance throughout our working lives those are earned benefits and we pay back Student Loans WITH INTEREST.
And the thought of two men who were born with a sliver spoon in their mouths, or up their butts, begrudging people on Medicaid, Food Stamps or other forms of Government assitance is infuriating. And these people call themselves christians? Goddess, if these are christians save us from them
SO FUCK MITT ROMNEY AND PAUL RYAN!!!!!!!
“Not elegant! Hahahahaha! That’s all that bothers him? Oh, you can’t make this shit up.”
LOL!!! No, you can’t make it up!!!!
Business Insider: Check Out The Details Of This Private Equity Exec’s Epic Week-Long St. Bart’s Bash.
The story references this page 6 item from the NY Post:
And these are the assholes our tax money goes to support when they fuck up. Yuck!
David Corn says the news for Romney tomorrow is not quite as bad as today. But the slavery quotes have to hurt him a lot.
Wow, Romney just restated what he said at the fund-raiser! And he’s trying to defend himself?
It was amazing. I think they teach how to make that kind of “apology” in elite law and MBA programs.
No offense meant to any lawyers or MBA’s here.
A practicing lawyer would have done that much smoother. Law professors, another story, as Althouse sees no problem with what he said at all.
I enjoyed that “off the cuff” moment!
Mitt Romney is the 47%, according to Mitt Romney.
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/mitt-romney-is-the-47-according-to-mitt-romney.php?ref=fpblg
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/item_xTjvSsv2y4nyLEcHsDbMzN
My conspiracy theory. I’ll bet you $10,000.00 dollars the X did it, HA!
mediamatters has a nice post on this and a great question for Romney in the last paragraph if any reporter would ask it.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/17/47-percent-vs-bitter-clinger/189956
http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/marc-leder.asp?cycle=08
Here are pictures of a party the 47% would never go to, thank god). Marc and Lisa pictures half way down.
http://www.palmbeachtoday.net/LLSGALA.html
Romney’s press availability tonight.
He does look desperate.
He’s dead meat. I hope he has a sleepless night. Tomorrow is the first day of the end of his presidential dream. At least his father went down for speaking against the Vietnam war.
You’re totally right BB. Romney is toast, BURNT TOAST!!!
Remind me to tell my bedridden mother ( who is in her late 80’s ) and her fellow nursing home residents they need to start taking “personal responsibility” for their lives. Selfish victims! Throw them out on the streets! No food, healthcare, or housing for them!
I am enraged by Romney’s statements at the fundraiser and his “press availability” tonight.
Exactly. Why should your mom or my mom feel “entitled” to food and shelter?
I want this guy to lose all 50 states.
He should but consider what’s left for his campaign. This is going to get hellaciously nasty and dirty and be unrelenting until Nov, unless the party steps in and pushes him away.
I hope that doesn’t happen but it’s more or less what I expect.
The party is ugly and nasty. I want them all to blow the hell up right now. Something has to change the dynamics of the two party system. Maybe having a sane republican party for a change would actually make the democrats run on something other than pointing and saying those guys are freaks!
Romney: My comments at fundraiser were ‘not elegantly stated’
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/17/romney-my-comments-at-fundraiser-were-not-elegantly-stated/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29
During a press conference on Monday night, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney admitted remarks he made in a recently published video were “not elegantly stated.”
Romney said he was just talking “off the cuff” when he described President Barack Obama’s supporters as people “who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them.” He refused to distance himself from his prior remarks, which were published online Monday afternoon, and insisted the President’s policies were “attractive” to people who didn’t pay taxes.
“Of course individuals are going to take responsibility for their life and my campaign is about helping people take more responsibility and becoming employed again, particularly those who don’t have work,” he said. “This whole campaign is focused on getting people jobs again, putting people back to work. This is ultimately a question about the direction of the country. Do you believe in a government-centered society that provides more and more benefits or do you believe instead in a free enterprise society where people are able to pursue their dreams. I believe the latter will help more people get good jobs.”
How many sides of a mouth can one man talk out of? Sheesh … he’s like the biggest self-saboteur I’ve ever seen.
Mother Jones @MotherJones
Full transcript of Romney presser reacting to @DavidCornDC’s 47 percent scoop: http://bit.ly/UgLlxA
Oh, I’m sure your’re right, Ralph. But it will be the death throes for him. The icing on the cake is that Paul Ryan’s presidential hopes are over too. Maybe he’ll even lose his House seat.
He should lose big!!!!! If not, then we are just screwed and should be gone.
Check out the map. The Solid South strikes again.
Where Are the 47% of Americans Who Pay No Income Taxes?
People in those red states don’t realize they are the moochers Romney is complaining about and that’s a problem.
yup .. it’s because they think their white christian shit doesn’t stink basically … it can’t possibly be any one but blah people and illegals and all those subhumans that we have to be around. Feeling they are superior to people in the same boat as they are simply because they are the ‘others’ is how they get through their pathetic, miserable live. The Rich are like abusive parents that get away with whatever simply because they say, but you’re my favorite ever so often and wow, at least you’re not them … it’s the old plantation tricks
Those 47 percenters, the freeloaders who think they’re entitled to food, should go to work as naked, torch juggling dancers on the Hamptons’ party circuit!
roflmao
Matt Yglesias @mattyglesias
What’s the elegant way of saying 47% of the population refuses to take responsibility for their lives and you don’t care about them?
Did anyone notice that the video looked to be shot from underneath a serving table? When the video first began someone was moving around in front of the camera. I’m wondering if the people serving the dinner setup the camera. Wouldn’t that be the best of all possible ways to get the truth of Romney out to the public? The WORKERS/WAITERS at the party, captured Mitt unfiltered, raw and uncensored. Wouldn’t that be Karma, Dak?
Yup, basically it would be … and her friend Irony would be sitting right next her.
Along with Poetic Justice.
Did Corn say the video was shot by a waiter? I read that somewhere.
I don’t know Ralph, but the video was shot from underneath a table, and when the video began there was someone at the table, facing it. I thought it was likely a food worker/waiter.
I didn’t hear Corn say that. He didn’t reveal the sex of the source either. Apparently the connection between the source and Corn was made through Jimmy Carter’s grandson. I don’t know if he’d know a lot of waiters in Boca Raton. We’ll probably find out eventually though.
I didn’t hear Corn say that either. I just went back and looked at the video again and the video begins with someone in front of the camera and the camera seems to be under a table. Whoever is at the table has on trousers, white shirt and vest. I looks to be the outfit of a waiter or a server.
BTW, this home is located in Long Lake Estates; http://www.co.palm-beach.fl.us/papa/Asps/PropertyDetail/PropertyDetail.aspx?parcel=00424705010000200& Hit the Map link and wander around. Sheldon Adelman is his next door neighbor.
This gated community has some of the nicest homes anywhere, and I speak from great experience in south Florida. Truly exceptional homes.
Very interesting. Thanks, Keith!