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Cerberus Capital Management Statement Regarding Freedom Group, Inc.
NEW YORK, Dec. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --We were shocked and deeply saddened by the events that took place at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT on December 14, 2012. We cannot comprehend the losses suffered by the families and friends of those killed by the unthinkable crimes committed that day. No words or actions can lessen the enormity of this event or make a dent in the pain that was inflicted on so many.
In 2006 affiliates of Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. made a financial investment in Freedom Group. Freedom Group does not sell weapons or ammunition directly to consumers, through gun shows or otherwise. Sales are made only to federally licensed firearms dealers and distributors in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. We do not believe that Freedom Group or any single company or individual can prevent senseless violence or the illegal use or procurement of firearms and ammunition.
It is apparent that the Sandy Hook tragedy was a watershed event that has raised the national debate on gun control to an unprecedented level. The debate essentially focuses on the balance between public safety and the scope of the Constitutional rights under the Second Amendment. As a Firm, we are investors, not statesmen or policy makers. Our role is to make investments on behalf of our clients who are comprised of the pension plans of firemen, teachers, policemen and other municipal workers and unions, endowments, and other institutions and individuals. It is not our role to take positions, or attempt to shape or influence the gun control policy debate. That is the job of our federal and state legislators.
There are, however, actions that we as a firm can take. Accordingly, we have determined to immediately engage in a formal process to sell our investment in Freedom Group. We will retain a financial advisor to design and execute a process to sell our interests in Freedom Group, and we will then return that capital to our investors. We believe that this decision allows us to meet our obligations to the investors whose interests we are entrusted to protect without being drawn into the national debate that is more properly pursued by those with the formal charter and public responsibility to do so.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and communities impacted by this tragic and devastating event.
About Cerberus Capital Management, L.P.
Established in 1992, Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. is one of the world's leading private investment firms. Cerberus has more than US $20 billion under management invested in four primary strategies: distressed securities & assets; control and non-control private equity; commercial mid-market lending and real estate-related investments. From its headquarters in New York City and large network of affiliate and advisory offices in the US, Europe and Asia, Cerberus has the on-the-ground presence to invest in multiple sectors, through multiple investment strategies in countries around the world.
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Freedom, Mental Health and Guns – Today's Qs for O's WH – 12/17/12
TAPPER: Jay, last night the president said in his speech, "are we prepared to say that such violence visited on our children year after year after year is somehow the price of our freedom?" When he referred to "our freedom," was he referring to gun rights? Was he referring to the difficulty that some societies have, some communities have now when it comes to committing people against their will? What exactly did he mean by "freedom"?
CARNEY: Well, I think that he meant broadly those and other issues, that, you know, we obviously have a society that is one based on laws, but it is a free society that creates a balance between the laws that we must abide and the freedoms that we enjoy.
TAPPER: So both. It -
CARNEY: I mean, again, I'm not going to get - I think that both could be encompassed within the meaning of what he said and other issues of freedoms and responsibilities more broadly. But - so I don't think - it wasn't - it wasn't a single specific meaning. I think it was broader than that.
TAPPER: OK, the president has been focused on the health care system in this country since he took office. Does he feel that the mental health care system in this country is adequate?
CARNEY: It's a - it's a very good question. And I would say that the Obama administration has taken action for the past four years to ensure that more Americans have access to mental health services. And we will continue to work with leaders across the country to help ensure people get the care and treatment they need.
As you know, the Affordable Care Act will ensure that 30 million more Americans have access to health care, including mental health services. And the law makes recommended health services available without a copay or a deductible. One of the reasons why the president explicitly talked about engaging not just with lawmakers and law enforcement officials and educators but mental health experts is because that's clearly a factor that needs to be addressed in some of these cases of horrific violence.
So what the Affordable Care Act has done - "Obamacare," if you will, has ensured that mental health services are integral and part of the services that the 30 million people who will be additional Americans who have health insurance, because of the Affordable Act - Affordable Care Act will receive and, in terms of the recommended services, receive them without a copay or a deductible.
So I think that reflects the administration's view on how important mental health services are. But when it comes to this broader - or rather, this more specific issue of mental health and the kind of violence that we saw in Newtown, I think that he believes it's important that experts in that field are part of this discussion.
TAPPER: OK, and lastly, Jay, after the Tucson shooting that left Congresswoman Gabby Giffords seriously wounded and six others dead, including a little girl, the president wrote an op-ed in 2011 in the Arizona Star, and he talked about the gun restrictions he favored.
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Cerberus to sell gunmaker Freedom Group after U.S. school shooting
U.S. private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management said on Tuesday it will immediately begin selling its investment in gunmaker Freedom Group in light of last week's school shooting in Connecticut.
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Cerberus to Sell Gunmaker Freedom Group
The private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management said on Tuesday that it would sell its investment in the gunmaker Freedom Group in response to the school shootings last week in Connecticut.
Cerberus acquired Bushmaster -- the manufacturer of the rifle used by the gunman in the Newtown attacks that killed 27 people, including 20 schoolchildren -- in 2006.
The private equity giant later merged it with other gun companies to create Freedom Group, which reported net sales of $677.3 million for the nine months that ended in September 2012, a 20 percent increase compared with the same period last year.
"It is apparent that the Sandy Hook tragedy was a watershed event that has raised the national debate on gun control to an unprecedented level," Cerberus said in a news release.
The private equity firm said it had made the investments in gun manufacturers on behalf of its clients, which include pension funds and other institutional investors. Cerberus added that it was the role of legislators to shape the country's gun policy.
"We believe that this decision allows us to meet our obligations to the investors whose interests we are entrusted to protect without being drawn into the national debate that is more properly pursued by those with the formal charter and public responsibility to do so," Cerberus said.
The private equity firm said it would retain a financial adviser to sell its interests in Freedom Group, and would return the proceeds to investors. Cerberus, based in New York, was founded in 1992 by William Richter and Stephen Feinberg, and has more than $20 billion of assets under management.
Cerberus is one of several private equity firms that have holdings in gun manufacturers. Colt Defense, which was spun out of the maker of the .44-40 Colt revolver, is jointly owned by Sciens Capital Management, a fund advised by the Blackstone Group and another fund operated by Credit Suisse.
Tuesday's announcement follows a statement from the California State Teachers' Retirement System, a large pension fund, that it was reviewing its investment in Cerberus in light of the firm's holding in Freedom Group.
"At this point, our investment branch is examining the Cerberus investment to determine how best to move forward given the tragic events of last Friday in Newtown, Connecticut," a spokesman for the Californian public pension fund told Reuters on Monday.
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Fund will divest itself of Bushmaster rifle-maker and try to step out of gun control debate.
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Freedom of religion, and nonreligion
Atheists, humanists and other nonreligious people face discrimination and persecution in many parts of the world, according 'Freedom of Thought 2012,' a report released this week by the International Humanist and Ethical Union.
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Cerberus to sell Freedom Group, maker of gun used in Newtown massacre
Private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management is distancing itself from Friday's shooting at a Connecticut elementary school by selling the company that makes one of the weapons purportedly used in the attack.
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Radio 3Fourteen - Dr. Nancy Banks - AIDS, Opium, Diamonds Empire
Dr. Nancy Banks is a graduate of Hunter College and Harvard Medical School. She completed her internship and residency in general surgery and obstetrics and gynecology. Today she is an activist, speaker and author of AIDS, Opium, Diamonds and Empire. Nancy will talk about the conspiratorial side of the medical industry and the elite cabal behind it who are skilled in the art of war. She also talks about how the HIV/AIDS crisis developed from the consequences of global financial decisions made at the highest levels as the result of the Bretton Woods Agreement following WWII and the doping of America following Vietnam. We #39;ll also discuss the Rockefeller Institute, eugenics and the art of propaganda and deception. Later, we cover biological stressors and how to stay healthy from the constant physical onslaught. http://www.nancybanksmd.comFrom:RedIceRadioViews:547 32ratingsTime:53:20More inEducation
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I made this video for my medical ethics class as a project for the end of the year. I did a lot of research and I have additional information I found. The facts really surprised me as well as many others.From:smileybober123Views:2 0ratingsTime:05:18More inEducation
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A charity is "disgusted and horrified" that a UK Independence Party candidate has appeared to call for compulsory abortion of any foetus with Down's syndrome or spina bifida.
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Mencap slam UKIP candidate who called for "compulsory abortion" of disabled people
UKIP candidate for Kent County Council Geoffrey Clark has been slammed for including a call for forced abortion of disabled people in his manifesto. Other items for review: ceasing all free IVF treatment on the NHS; cutting unecessary waste e.g the destruction of drugs in care homes when residents move on to the next care home or the next world; the pregnancy abortion time limit; compulsory ...
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Geoffrey Clarke 'Compulsory abortion for all Downs' and Spina Bifida babies': UKIP candidate sparks angry backlash …
A UKIP candidate has provoked an angry backlash from a disability charity after calling for the compulsory abortion of all unborn babies with Down's syndrome or Spina Bifida.
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Ukip Candidate Urges Compulsory Abortion Of Disabled Foetuses
The Ukip candidate for Kent Council Council has provoked outrage after publishing a manifesto that called for disabled foetuses to be aborted, free euthanasia for...
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Charity slams Ukip candidate views
A charity is "disgusted and horrified" that a UK Independence Party candidate has appeared to call for compulsory abortion of any foetus with Down's syndrome or spina bifida.
Learning disability charity Mencap questioned whether Kent County Council Ukip candidate Geoffrey Clarke is fit for office after he made the comments on his website.
In his personal manifesto Mr Clarke, who is also standing for Gravesham Borough Council in a by-election on Thursday, called for a Government review into NHS expenditure.
The review should "re-examine the pregnancy abortion time limit. Consider compulsory abortion when the foetus is detected as having Downs, spina bifida or similar syndrome which, if it is born, will render the child a burden on the state as well as on the family".
It should also look into medical treatment for people over the age of 80, which the 66-year-old says is "extraordinarily costly" to the NHS.
But Mr Clarke said that he does not actually endorse the provocative statements on his website.
"I do not endorse these ideas," he said later. "They are for the commission to consider how best to cut service levels if it is decided to do so."
Mark Goldring, chief executive of learning disability charity Mencap, said: "Mencap is disgusted and horrified by the manifesto of Kent County Council Ukip candidate Geoffrey Clarke who has proposed the compulsory abortion of any foetus with Down's syndrome or spina bifida.
"Much has been written about the Paralympics this summer changing attitudes towards disabled people for the better. Yet in the very same year, a council candidate has proposed forced eugenics against disabled people.
"It is abhorrent that Geoffrey Clarke sees disabled people solely as a burden when people with a learning disability lead full lives and make valuable contributions to their communities and families. We question if he is fit for public office."
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UKIP drops Down's call candidate
A UKIP candidate who called for an NHS review to look at compulsory abortion of foetuses with Down's syndrome or spina bifida is suspended.
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Sumitomo Mitsui Launches Eco-Loan In Malaysia
SUMITOMO Mitsui Banking Corp (SMBC) yesterday launched its Environment Assessment Loan Malaysia, its first such eco-loan for companies operating outside Japan. Read more...
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Google's problem with Windows Phone and does it matter?
"Does Windows Phone need Google and its services to be successful? No. The fate of Windows Phone and its adoption in the marketplace does not rest in the hands of Google. Microsoft itself holds the key to Windows Phone becoming a successful platform, rapid evolution of its cloud services and integration with the rest of the MS eco system." Good editorial on Google killing AES support for ...
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