The U.S. hedge fund manager backing a major newspaper merger

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Amid a business presentation heavy on numbers, Steven Shapiro slipped in this tidbit about what made a struggling U.K. bank an attractive investment to a hedge fund that specializes in distressed assets. “And then it emerged that the bank’s chairman, an ordained minister, was caught buying drugs, earning him the nickname the ‘Crystal Methodist’,” Shapiro told…

The U.S. hedge fund manager backing a major newspaper merger

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