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The suit says the deal could help Blackstone tighten its grip on the management of $25 billion in insurance assets.
Blackstone says that is a total misreading and its client has the independent right to cut ties.
Read Insider s original investigation into Blackstone s lucrative deal with the chairman of Fidelity National Financial.
Managing money for wealthy clients and institutional investors can be a cutthroat business, with competitors vying to steal accounts and undercut their rivals fees. And yet the world s largest private-equity firm, The Blackstone Group, seems to enjoy an uncanny level of job security: According to claims in a recently unsealed lawsuit, it has struck a deal with at least one major client that makes it almost impossible for the company to get fired.
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A truck with a far-right militia sticker spotted at the Capitol riot belongs to Rep. Mary Miller s husband, according to a report.
The truck bearing a Three Percenter sticker was spotted during the January 6 riot.
Chris Miller, Rep. Miller s husband, told the Daily Beast the truck belongs to him but denies affiliation to the group.
Insider found no evidence that ICE asked states to vaccinate detainees, as the agency claimed.
ICE now says the COVID-19 vaccine rollout included doses for detainees but some states never got the message.
Read the Insider investigation that revealed how federal negligence could leave thousands of at-risk immigrants out of the largest vaccine rollout in history.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has reversed its previous claim that it was working with state and local health departments to ensure that the ICE detainee population is included in state vaccination plans, following an Insider investigation that found the federal agency has no plan to vaccinate the almost 14,000 immigrants in its custody against COVID-19.
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Experts say incarcerated people should be among the first to receive the COVID vaccine.
But ICE has no plan to vaccinate detainees, an Insider investigation has found.
Experts raised concerns that thousands of detained immigrants were falling through the cracks.
When US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Giovannie Morrison in October, the pandemic was burning through his home state of California. Naturally, he feared catching COVID-19 in a crowded immigration detention center.
A music promoter before the pandemic, Morrison was living in the city of Roseville, near Sacramento, and working as a day laborer. He told Insider that he carried hand sanitizer and wore a face covering everywhere he went.