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From: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com]
Sent: 6/7/2017 12:03:23 PM
To: Leon Black
"Blackstone anticipates that the program will have $40 billion in total equity commitments in a permanent
capital vehicle, including $20 billion to be raised from other investors," Blackstone said in a statement
announcing the planned launch of the investment fund. "The MOU is non-binding and the parties will continue
their negotiation to agree definitive documentation."
Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Bruce Riedel was even less charitable. "There is no deal. It's fake news," he
wrote in a scathing piece on the Brookings website. "I've spoken to contacts in the defense business and on the
Hill, and all of them say the same thing: there are a bunch of letters of interest or intent, but not contracts. Many
are offers that the defense industry thinks the Saudis will be interested in someday."
It could be years before anyone knows for sure whether the preliminary agreements announced in Saudi Arabia
have become real deals worth hundreds of billions, or whether the announcements were the kind of hyperbole
Trump perfected during his time in the business world.
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