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Tony 'Soprano'
Scaramucci…Best Friend & |
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Orlando Furioso |
| Need to Know: Tony “Soprano” Scaramucci Is Scaramucci’s SkyBridge hedge fund a bridge in the sky to launder the Lucchese mob’s ill-gotten fortune from extortion, gambling, blackmail and other rackets?) His bio at SkyBridge: Anthony Scaramucci is the founder of SkyBridge Capital. Mr. Scaramucci was the co-host of “Wall Street Week,” the iconic financial television show revived in 2015 currently airing on the Fox Business Network. He is the author of three books: The Little Book of Hedge Funds, Goodbye Gordon Gekko and Hopping Over the Rabbit Hole, a 2016 Wall Street Journal best-seller in the business category. Prior to founding SkyBridge in 2005, Mr. Scaramucci co-founded investment partnership Oscar Capital Management, which was sold to Neuberger Berman, LLC in 2001. Earlier, Mr. Scaramucci was a vice president in Private Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs & Co. In 2016, Mr. Scaramucci was ranked #85 in Worth Magazine’s Power 100: The 100 Most Powerful People in Global Finance. In 2011, he received Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur Of The Year® New York Award in the Financial Services category. Mr. Scaramucci is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), vice chair of the Kennedy Center Corporate Fund Board, a board member of The Brain Tumor Foundation and Business Executives for National Security (BENS), and a Trustee of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Foundation. He was a member of the New York City Financial Services Advisory Committee from 2007 to 2012. In November 2016 he was named to President-elect Trump’s 16-person Presidential Transition Team Executive Committee. Mr. Scaramucci, a native of Long Island, New York, holds a B.A. in Economics from Tufts University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Things you don’t know about Tony: His immigrant parents came from the Avellino region, in the Campania region below the western slope of the volcanic Mount Vesuvius. Allied with the Camorra mob in Naples, the capo of the Avellina branch kept a troop of macaque monkeys as the mafia mascot. The two most famous American characters from Avellino are: The Sopranos, mob boss Tony Soprano who has his family roots in Avellino. Tony's grandfather, Corrado Soprano Sr, a stonemason, emigrated from Avellino to the United States in the early 20th century. (Stonemason? Sound’s like Scaramucci’s immigrant dad who was a sand digger in Long Island. Ever wonder what happened to Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa? Go ask the sand diggers from Avellino.) Carmine Avellino, the Lucchese mob family boss in Long Island (Scarmucci’s sand box), who was involved in the murder of the owners of the East Point carting industry (garbage trucks) in Long Island. The Lucchese family ran the infamous French Connection heroin smuggling operation and kept the NYPD under its control through bribery, as depicted in the movie Serpico. Boss Tony “Ducks” Corallo was an associate of Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa. After the imprisonment of capo John Gotti with the Gambino family, the Lucchese unleashed a tidal wave of murder across mob land to eliminate rivals. Today, the Lucchese hierarchy includes: the imprisoned Vic Amuso, acting boss Steven “Wonderboy” Crea, underboss Matt Madonna, and consigliere Joe C. Caridi. Anthony Scaramucci’s Family: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know 64.5K Views 69 Shares 1 Comment By Jessica McBride Jul 21, 2017 at 4:23pm Anthony Scaramucci Anthony Scaramucci, Anthony Scaramucci, who was named Donald Trump’s new White House communications director, is the son of an Italian sand miner who speaks proudly of his middle class upbringing on Long Island. The brash self-made billionaire’s hiring sparked the resignation of Sean Spicer, one of the most visible faces in the Trump administration. Scaramucci, 53, is a New York financier who is also an author and cable news firebrand. His choice was opposed by other top figures in the Trump administration, including Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and strategist Steve Bannon, according to The New York Times. The president’s daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law Jared Kushner supported the hire, the Times reported, highlighting a fissure between the GOP political wing in Trump’s administration and his family. All of this has a lot of people wondering about Scaramucci’s background and his family. Scaramucci is from a mining family on Long Island. His pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps life story, New York roots, and entrepreneurship likely appealed to Donald Trump. Here’s what you need to know: 1. Scaramucci’s Father Spent Years Toiling in Sand Mines & Scaramucci Is Proud of His Italian Heritage Anthony Scaramucci, Scaramucci’s father, in particular, often features in the candid stories that Scaramucci likes to tell about his hard-scrabble “American Dream” childhood, in which he was taught work ethic and self sufficiency and used those traits to eventually achieve great wealth. Scaramucci spoke proudly of his parents, their work ethic and long-lived marriage, in a Q and A with LIBN.com. He revealed that he considered himself middle class growing up on Long Island, New York. “My dad worked in the sand mines there for 42 years. Gotham Sand and Stone. It’s now a golf course,” Scaramucci told the Long Island publication. “…I participated in that sand miner’s monument as you head into Roslyn dedicated to the Italian, Welsh, Polish and Irish immigrants who came to Long Island to dig out the sand bank.” He added that he was proud of his parents and told the news site in 2016, “They’re married 58 years and live in the same house I grew up in. They didn’t go to college. They’re pretty happy. They helped me get to where I am.” On Facebook, Scaramucci also brought up the sand mine story, writing, “My dad labored in the sand mines of Long Island for 42 years. He taught me what it meant to put in an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay. Now he has trouble hearing due to the effects of heavy machinery, but he’d tell you it was worth it. My father’s sacrifices allowed his children to be upwardly mobile.” The family is of Italian heritage, something Scaramucci is very proud of. Scaramucci told Fonderia USA, “I am Italian. I love my heritage, my upbringing and the culture that I came from. I make no apologies for being me.” He added, “I am in love with Italy. I am proud of my Italian descent and believe that in the long-term the Italian people are very resilient.” Read More From Heavy In 2016, Scaramucci revealed in a profile story with LIBN.com that he lives close to the house where he was raised and still considers childhood friends a key touchstone. “If I ever wake up and think of myself as a TV star, I want my friends in my hometown to hit me on the head with something. I grew up in Port Washington and live in Manhasset about two miles from the home I grew up in,” he said to the site. Growing up, Scaramucci said, his “uncle had a motorcycle shop at the top of the hill where I lived. I went there to work sometimes and I sold helmets, chains and mopeds.” Scaramucci eventually graduated from Harvard Law School and went to work for Goldman Sachs. He started a hedge fund, reported People Magazine, before selling it and starting SkyBridge, “a global investment firm specializing in hedge fund products.” He was on Trump’s campaign finance committee. Scaramucci now has a net worth of more than $1 billion. 3. Scaramucci Has Spoken Candidly About His Brother’s Struggle With Alcohol & Drug Addiction Writing on Medium.com in 2016, Scaramucci revealed that he brother, David Scaramucci, had “battled drug and alcohol addiction since college.” His brother joined Anthony Scaramucci in a podcast to discuss his recovery. In that intensely personal podcast, Scaramucci revealed that his parents had a stressful marriage despite the union’s longevity. “Growing up as the oldest son in a close-knit Italian family, David was the one most impacted by our parents’ up-and-down marriage,” wrote Anthony Scaramucci. “When he was 7 or 8 years old, he escaped through schoolwork and sports instead of alcohol and drugs, but the desire to escape from reality played a role in the behaviors he developed later in life.” Scaramucci praised his brother for his desire to share his story to help others. “Our parents loved us to death, but I think they had a stressful marriage and the kids felt that stress,” David told Anthony. The podcast is no longer available. 4. Scaramucci Has Called His Family Background a ‘Classic Italian Immigrant Story’ Scaramucci was born in Port Washington, Long Island, which he called “sort of a transplanted city from Volturara Irpina, a small Italian town of maybe 4,000 people.” “It is a classic Italian immigrant story: in 1910 and 1920 groups of people from Volturara emigrated to the United States,” he told Fonderia USA. “They passed through Brooklyn, ended up in Port Washington and had such a good experience they called their town folks back in Italy to join them.” Scaramucci said he was the first person in his family to go to a professional school, telling Fonderia, “Both of my parents were born here. My father worked with his hands and he never went to college. My mother was a homemaker. My father worked for the same construction company for 42 years, and he was very strict with us when we were kids. The result is that my older brother is an electrical engineer. I went to Tufts University to study economics and then to Harvard Law School. I am the first person in my family to enter a professional school like a law school or an Ivy League college, and my parents helped me any way they could.” 5. Scaramucci’s Wife is Deidre Scaramucci, Formerly Deidre Ball & They Have a Son Together Scaramucci is married to Deidre Scaramucci, the former Deidre Ball. She works in investor relations for Skybridge. The couple has a son, also named Anthony. Deidre Ball, Anthony Scaramucci’s Wife: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know By Paul Farrell Jul 21, 2017 at 4:33pm Deidre Ball, Anthony Scaramucci's Wife Facebook/Deidre ScaramucciDeidre Ball pictured on her Facebook page. Anthony Scaramucci’s wife has blazed her own path in the world of finance and banking. As her husband takes over as communications director in the Trump administration, it’s unclear if Scaramucci’s wife, Deidre Ball, will be joining her husband in the nation’s capital. The couple lives with their son in the affluent Long Island community of Manhasset. It was revealed on July 21 that Scaramucci, who was a member of Trump’s transition team, would join the administration, apparently at the expense of Sean Spicer. Here’s what you need to know about Mrs. Anthony Scaramucci: 1. In 2015, Ball Donated to a New York Congresswoman Who Is Vehemently Anti-Trump Online records show that Ball donated to New York Democrat Congresswoman Kathleen Rice’s campaign in 2015. In total, Ball donated $5,000 to Rice’s campaign. On the Issues has classified Rice’s politics as moderately liberal. In a tweet sent hours before Scaramucci was named a member of Trump’s campaign, Rise tweeted that “Trump is a straight up liar.” Those records show that Ball also donated to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s presidential campaign on four different occasions while also donating to Jeb Bush once. It was known that during the early stages of the 2016 election cycle that Anthony Scaramucci had been backing Walker. Separate records show that Ball has also donated more than $10,000 to Paul Ryan’s Prosperity Action Super PAC. 2. Ball Works in Investor Relations for SkyBridge Capital According to her LinkedIn page, Ball works in investor relations for SkyBridge Capital. Ball is also listed a vice president of that company. That same page says that Ball graduated with an MA in Communications from the University of Buffalo in 2001. Her husband founded SkyBridge in 2005, according to his profile on the company’s website. CNBC reports that Sky Bridge has $11.4 billion in assets under management. The Wall Street Journal values the company at $200 million. The company is based along Madison Avenue in Manhattan and employs 125 people. 3. After Her Husband’s Ascendancy to the Trump Administration, Ball Deleted Her Twitter Account In the wake of her husband’s ascendancy into the Trump administration, Ball has deleted her Twitter account. Ball formerly went by the moniker MrsAScaramucci on the social media site. A search of her name on Twitter shows that she spent much of her time being trolled by anti-Trump activists. Ball still maintains a Facebook page which publicly offers little information about her personal life. Scaramucci dedicated his 2016 book, Hopping Over the Rabbit Hole, to Ball. As previously stated, the family lives in the Long Island community of Manhasset where minority New York Mets owner James F. McCann among their neighbors, reports the New York Times. That piece notes that in his youth, Scaramucci would regularly take the Long Island Rail Road to watch the Mets play in Shea Stadium. In a separate piece in New York Magazine, Scaramucci said about his upbringing: I grew up on Long Island. Big Italian family. I was a bad student. I was chasing girls. I want you to picture this: I had a black T-shirt. Gold chains. I had a ’79 Camaro—with a power-booster. 4. A Group of White Supremacists Has Cited Ball’s Religion as a Reason Not to Trust Trump A group of anti-Trump white supremacists cited Ball’s religion as a reason not to support Trump. According to those neo-Nazis, Ball was raised in a Jewish family. Several white supremacist forums and websites, that we won’t link to, have titles such as “Who Controls Trump?” and another forum has a thread titled, “Donald Trump Jews/Israel/Zionism.” Both make references to Ball’s religion as a reason white supremacists shouldn’t support Donald Trump. 5. Scaramucci Has Said That He’s Believes Trump Can Have a Good Relationship With the Media During his introduction to the press, Scaramucci said that he was believed Trump could still have a good relationship with the media. As Business Insider notes, Scaramucci “has a love-hate relationship with the press.” Prior to joining the Trump administration, when it was merely rumored Scaramucci would be working in the White House, he told the Port Washington News that, “I have not made any definitive decision on my next chapter, but my family has always been very supportive.” |