The Day After

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Gauging Wall Street’s Post-Election Day Mood With Bloomberg TV’s Betty Liu

It was the morning after the presidential election on the set of Bloomberg Television’s In the Loop, and Leo Hindery Jr., a partner at InterMedia Partners and a sometime adviser to Democratic officials, was pumping his arms in an off-air shimmy.

“Ohio, baby,” he said, naming the point in the previous night’s returns when he’d begun to celebrate. Then the cameras rolled, host Betty Liu repeated the question, and the private equity investor stifled a smile. Read More

Hindery’s Suggestion

Ferrer finance chief Leo Hindery has a modest proposal for retiring Freddy’s campaign debt:

“If [Bloomberg] would just write me a check for as much as he wrote the Sheraton on the night of his election, we’d have it pretty well taken care of,” he said this morning.

Of course, Freddy has to raise the Read More

The Plutocrats Of Democrats Go Bloomberg

Last month, Steven Rattner, the multimillionaire financier, former New York Times reporter and Democratic fund-raiser, turned heads—and raised more than a few hackles—when he took charge of Democrats for Bloomberg, the incumbent Mayor’s aisle-crossing outreach committee. Mr. Rattner’s role was unveiled less than 14 hours after the polls closed on a lackluster Democratic primary, and Read More

Hindery AWOL

Now last we’d checked, Leo was playing a crucial and high-profile role in Freddy’s campaign as his top national fundraiser.

Now this, from Bloomberg News, of all places:

Leo Hindery, Wall Street Racer, Captures Le Mans Flag

June 20 (Bloomberg) — Leo Hindery Jr., who left his job as chief executive officer of Yankees Read More

Investor’ Donnybrook Breaks Out As Yankees, Rattner Clear Bench

Leo Hindery, the cable veteran and chief executive of George

Steinbrenner’s new sports station, was on a conference call, oozing his special

brand of confidence and boardroom bonhomie. It was Sept. 10, and he was

announcing the culmination of months of negotiation: the formation of the YES

network, born out of the burgeoning YankeeNets sports Read More