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Hedge fund heir Alex Lasry's Milwaukee Bucks have raised season ticket prices amid rising inflation Wisconsin Senate candidate and Milwaukee Bucks executive Alex Lasry blames corporate "greed" for the rising cost of consumer goods. But his NBA franchise has jacked up season ticket prices, drawing criticism from longtime fans who say the coveted passes are now only affordable for corporations and the ultra-rich. "Inflation is a tax on working people driven by corporations and their greed—it's time we make the economy work for the people not against them," Lasry wrote on Twitter in April. But Lasry has been silent as...

MADISON, Wis. -- Democrat Alex Lasry, a 33-year-old Milwaukee Bucks executive and son of a billionaire, announced Wednesday that he's running for the U.S. Senate in 2022 for the seat currently held by Republican Ron Johnson. Lasry made the announcement with a YouTube video, saying "we need a new way of thinking and a new perspective." His launch video included endorsements from several prominent Milwaukee politicians, including Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley and Milwaukee Common Council President Cavalier Johnson.

The Clintons are back, and the Daily Mail has a spread about how they are partying away with the jet-setters of the New England coastal elites – the big-money ones, of course. Love was in the air over the weekend at the most unlikely of places, as the son of billionaire hedge fund manager Marc Lasry was married in a ceremony that was held on the grounds of Harvey Weinstein's Connecticut estate. Zach Lasry, 28, wed Arianna Lyons, 29, in a circus-themed ceremony complete with acrobats, taxidermist animals [sic] and one terrifying clown who hung lanterns off his eyelids. Even...

Video 10 minutes in length. Harvey Weinstein and pro basketball owners Dolan and Lasry charged with Rico Act violations.

Hedge fund manager Marc Mezvinsky had friends in high places when he bet big on a Greek economic recovery, but even the keen interest of his mother-in-law, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, wasn't enough to spare him and his investors from financial tragedy. In 2012, Mezvinski, the husband of Chelsea Clinton, created a $325 million basket of offshore funds under the Eaglevale Partners banner through a special arrangement with investment bank Goldman Sachs. The funds have lost tens of millions of dollars predicting that bailouts of the Greek banking system would pump up the value of the country’s distressed bonds....

Billionaire Marc Lasry who runs a Manhattan hedge fund was slated to become the next French ambassador but apparently he's declined the post over his alleged friendship with Illya Trincher whom federal prosecutors accuse of heading a gambling and money laundering ring with ties to the Russian Mafia as reported by the New York Post: "'it's not that he committed a crime, but it opens a can of worms,' a source said." Trincher and co-defendant Hillel "Helly" Nahmad, an art dealer and spoiled playboy, allegedly headed a racketeering enterprise which operated poker games in New York for the fabulous set,...