The gatherings, which included a Provençal-inspired meal in Berkeley and an Italian dinner in San Francisco's Russian Hill, also served as fund-raisers for Waters's Edible Schoolyard Project.
On Thursday, Jan . 18 there will be a free opening celebration at the Lincoln Memorial at 3 30 p.m. On Friday, three candlelight dinners -- whose locations have not been set -- will serve as fund-raisers for the inaugural committee.
Now, the Edwards campaign is serving as "Fund-Raising 101" for trial lawyers used to writing large soft-money checks but unfamiliar with raising the smaller "hard money" contributions that are still legal, says Eileen Kotecki, an Edwards finance co-chairwoman who oversees much of the day-to-day fund-raising.
That is a nice way of saying they invested in hedge funds that served as "feeder" funds for Mr. Madoff.
The treaties with Germany and Britain will bring further change to the smaller private banks that have traditionally served as niche fund managers to global elites.
Mr. Fischer briefly served as the fund's top official last year while the United States, Germany and several other European nations waged a protracted and sometimes bitter diplomatic contest over who would serve in the top post.
The shift will bring further change to the smaller private banks that have traditionally served as niche fund managers to global elites, who often want to keep their financial affairs secret.
The issue is whether friends and relatives of Mr. Hevesi's received improper financial benefits by virtue of their closeness to Mr. Hevesi, who served as the fund's sole trustee.
The first match in Uganda, held last year, also served as a fund-raiser to help pay the legal fees of Ugandan women sexually trafficked to Iraq.
A lawyer for Mr. Blagojevich's older brother and co-defendant, Robert Blagojevich, who briefly served as a fund-raiser for the former governor and is charged with five criminal counts, said he did not understand the jury's note.
Through acting as both a supply- and demand-side intervention, the BIG had served as seed funding for unleashing Otjivero's budding entrepreneurs.
