Anthony Scaramucci worked at Goldman Sachs’ investment banking, equities, and private wealth management divisions between 1989 and 1996. He founded Oscar Capital Management, and in 2005, he founded the investment firm SkyBridge Capital. He was appointed White House Communications Director on July 21, 2017. Ten days after his appointment, he was dismissed by the new White House Chief of Staff, John F. Kelly, at the recommendation of President Donald Trump.
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Anthony Scaramucci worked at Goldman Sachs’ investment banking, equities, and private wealth management divisions between 1989 and 1996. He founded Oscar Capital Management, and in 2005, he founded the investment firm SkyBridge Capital. He was appointed White House Communications Director on July 21, 2017. Ten days after his appointment, he was dismissed by the new White House Chief of Staff, John F. Kelly, at the recommendation of President Donald Trump. He has since been critical of Trump in the media and voiced his support for Joe Biden in the 2020 election. He served as the national finance co-chair for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign. He earned a B. A. in economics at Tufts University and a J. D. at Harvard Law School where he overlapped with future President Barack Obama, future Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and future Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, among others. He is the chairman of the SkyBridge Alternatives Conference, or \”SALT\” Conference, launched in 2009. In April 2018, it was announced that ScarAmucci would be returning to SkyBridge after the deal with HNA Group had collapsed due to the lack of approval of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, an inter-agency government committee. In 2011 he received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award New York Award in the Financial Services category. In 2016 he was ranked #85 in Worth magazine’s \”Power 100: The 100 Most Powerful People in Global Finance\”.
In 2015, he hosted Wall Street Week, a financial television news program formerly hosted by Louis Rukeyser on PBS, which was transferred to Fox Broadcasting Company in 2016. In a Fox Business Network appearance on a television show, he called Trump a “hack’ whose rhetoric is “anti-American and very divisive” He has warned at various times that he has “cut out all the crazy rhetoric and now it’s time to cut out all this crazy rhetoric’”. He has also said that he “always been for strong gun control laws” and that “Republicans should support gay marriage’”. In September 2010, he asked President Obama to “stop whacking Wall Street like a piñata” when he was going to a CNBC event when he asked Obama to stop “waving a gun around” during a CNBC interview. In 2012, he served as a fundraiser for Obama’s presidential campaign, and was a co- chair of his national finance campaign for the 2012 Republican National Convention. In 2013, he co-founded a hedge fund that was later sold to RON Transatlantic EG and HNA Capital Holding, a Chinese conglomerate with close ties to China’s Communist Party. In 2014, he stepped down from his co-management role and ended his affiliation with SkyBridge and SALT. He also served as student council president at Paul D. Schreiber Senior High School in Port Washington, New York. He had a middle-class upbringing and was the first generation of his family to attend college.
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