Mother Jones 400
April 1996

237. (tie) Agnes Gund

State and Town New York, N.Y.
Total Donated $69,500.
Party D

Gund is president of New York's Museum of Modern Art. She is the daughter of investor George Gund Jr., who sold his decaffeinated coffee firm (Sanka) to Kellogg in 1927, and left his family $1.9 billion when he died in 1966. Agnes' brother, Gordon, is also on the list (see #286).

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237. (tie) Nicholas C. Forstmann

Age: 49
State and Town New York, N.Y.
Total Donated $69,500.
Party R

Forstmann is the founder of investment banking firm Forstmann Little, kings of the leveraged buyout. GOP legislation modifying the Williams Act (the anti-fraud law used to prosecute Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken) could revive the buyout hysteria of the 1980s.

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237. (tie) M. Bernard Aidinoff

Age: 66
State and Town New York, N.Y.
Total Donated $69,500.
Party D

Aidinoff is a partner with the law firm of Sullivan Cromwell, and a director of the Amnesty International Group Association.

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