Posted on 08/31/2009 12:16:55 PM PDT by presidio9
Sen. Edward Kennedy's family fortune not only fueled his brothers' presidential campaigns and his eight terms in the U.S. Senate, it also helped drive the family's liberal legacy and forge Kennedy's lifelong crusade for universal health care.
Just how wealthy was Kennedy when he died Tuesday at the age of 77 after a yearlong battle with brain cancer?
Untangling a family fortune that reaches back to the early days of the past century is murky business, but the annual federal financial disclosure reports Kennedy was required to file provide at least a' partial glimpse into his personal capital.
As a U.S. senator, Kennedy earned a base salary of $165,200 a year, but that just skimmed the surface of his net worth.
On the most recent report in 2008, which includes his own assets and those of his wife and any dependents, Kennedy listed a string of publicly and non-publicly traded trusts and assets. Under the filing rules, Kennedy was only required to place the value of those assets within a range, rather than give an exact dollar amount.
The report placed the net worth of his publicly traded assets somewhere between a low of $15 million and high of $72.6 million.
Just a year earlier,
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A web site here that disagrees with you on the quality of those weapons. They rate it as both very accurate and very durable .. a very good design. There is a notation that during the war, manufacture of some Carcanos was jobbed out to companies not traditionally weapons makers so some they have found to have poor "fit and finish" but that was a very small percentage of them. Maybe that's what your brother had.
Certainly not most of the so-called “Catholics” in the US Congress!
Exactly right.
Drug Lord of the 1930’s.
Right or wrong, that is EXACTLY what they were and where their fortune was made.
Stupid laws and governmental regulations have made a lot of corrupt people wealthy.
“That’s right, Italian Carcanos. “
How ironic! 6.5mm, serial number xxxxxx?
Great cartridge, crappy rifle. But I guess it worked.
It took him awhile to get the contacts.
It took him awhile to get the contacts.
How appropriate.
Why is she giving the finger?
The story as I recall was that a few days before the big crash in 1929, Joe sold all his holdings and shorted the market, making a killing.
Great vid. Thanks for the heads up. Needs a thread of it’s own.
Because it’s a FOX News TV cameraman.
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