mocrats. Mr. Trump is also meeting with Isaac Perlmutter, chief executive officer of Marvel Entertainment, and David M. Rubenstein the co-founder of Carlyle Group. Mr. Perlumuter hardly ever gives to political campaigns either, but his wife, Laura, gave $2 million to former presidential candidate Marco Rubio’s

Investiga- tions Services, or USIS, as it is now called, which won the contract for background checks, was initially owned by the private equity fund Carlyle Group, which later sold it to another financial group, Providence Equity Partners. For the private equity and hedge funds, profits were the measure of succ

yton - who has advised on numerous major P-E deals - to lead the SEC. Aside from those official posts, the president-elect has met with the heads of Carlyle Group (NASDAQ:CG) and KKR since his election. "There seems to be more interest in the advice of real-world practitioners than in the past,” says the head