Gertler has declined requests by Bloomberg for comment since the sanctions were imposed. But even before then, he said he was being unfairly targeted. In 2016, U.S. court documents alleged Gertler channeled more than $100 million in bribes to Congolese officials on behalf of New York hedge fund
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In this June 14, 2017 photo, people walk past an entrance to the Anbang Insurance Group's offices in Beijing. China's insurance regulator said Friday, Feb. 23, 2018 it is assuming management of insurer Anbang, owner of New York's iconic Waldorf Astoria …
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Edward-Elmhurst Health, an integrated system based in Naperville, Illinois, went public this week with sour news: The three-hospital nonprofit system discovered a $92 million accounting error. Accounts receivable had been overstated for a number of reasons over the course of six years, making it
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While insisting they back the prime minister's leadership, the band of Brexiters – led by Jacob Rees-Mogg (read Bloomberg's profile of Rees-Mogg here) – links its support to her delivering a Brexit divorce that leaves few lingering ties to the union of nations they're so keen to see the back of. As Robert
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has decided to appoint a party loyalist who has been floated as a potential successor to the post of general secretary of her Christian Democratic Union. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the CDU premier of the western state of Saarland, will succeed Peter Tauber,
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