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Wed Dec 4, 2024, 03:47 PM Dec 4

'Trump Offers Key Pentagon Job to Billionaire Whose Firm Trained Khashoggi's Murderers'

"Stephen Feinberg is co-CEO of Cerberus Capital Management, which owns a company that provided training to members of the hit squad that murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi."

"President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly offered the number-two Pentagon job to a secretive billionaire investor with close ties to the military-industrial complex, potentially introducing additional conflicts of interest to an incoming administration that is set to be rife with corporate executives and lobbyists."

"Stephen Feinberg is co-founder and co-CEO of the private equity behemoth Cerberus Capital Management, which owns a firm that provided paramilitary training to members of the elite team that murdered Saudi journalist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi in 2018."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/stephen-feinberg-pentagon

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