Frank Pearl

Frank Pearl   (financier, publisher)
Born	May 27, 1943 New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Died	May 4, 2012 (Age 68)
Cause of death	cancer
Nationality	US
Alma mater	University of Wisconsin, American University School of Law
Member of	Brookings Institution
Interests	Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Five times Bilderberger financier; "the richest and most influential man whom no one really knew." Accused of fraud after his death.

Frank Hilton Pearl was a US businessman. "In Washington’s elite business and cultural circles, Frank H. Pearl was known as the richest and most influential man whom no one really knew."

Pearl attended the Bilderberg five times.

Activities

Pearl was an adroit real estate attorney who helped launch the leveraged buyout boom of the 1980s. While still in his 30s, he charted the financial structuring for a seminal deal. With Pearl's help, Wesray Capital used mostly borrowed money to "leverage" an $80 million investment in Gibson Greetings into a $290 million public offering.

As a Washington-based financier, Pearl kept an unusually low-profile in a city of big names and big egos, avoiding publicity most of his life even as he gathered considerable wealth, influence and connections while engineering leveraged buyouts in the 1980s as a partner at the Wesray Capital Corporation. "Pearl was like the prince of smoke," said Bill Regardie, a businessman and the former publisher of Regardie’s, a magazine that chronicled the local business scene in the 1980s and early ’90s. "He was one of the those characters that you never really knew what he was doing. You never knew whether he had any money. He was one of those characters that floated around the businesses of Washington."

He was a close friend of the deep state operative Vernon E. Jordan Jr.

Fraud

A year after his death, "lawsuits filed by major banks that had extended him loans and his own investment firm allege fraud by the man once known for his Midas touch. Bank of America, TD Bank, Eagle Bank and Perseus have filed claims against Pearl's estate in D.C. and federal courts. In all, they are seeking more than $50 million."

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/2001	24 May 2001	27 May 2001	Sweden Stenungsund	The 49th Bilderberg, in Sweden. Reported on the WWW.
Bilderberg/2002	30 May 2002	2 June 2002	US Virginia Chantilly Westfields Marriott	The 50th Bilderberg, held at Chantilly, Virginia.
Bilderberg/2005	5 May 2005	8 May 2005	Germany Rottach-Egern	The 53rd Bilderberg, 132 guests
Bilderberg/2008	5 June 2008	8 June 2008	US Virginia Chantilly	The 56th Bilderberg, Chantilly, Virginia, 139 guests
Bilderberg/2010	3 June 2010	6 June 2010	Spain Hotel Dolce Sitges Barcelona	The 122 guests met in the Hotel Dolce Sitges, Barcelona, Spain.

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