{"id":1529,"date":"2019-12-16T16:38:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T16:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2019-12-16T16:38:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T16:38:07","slug":"weworkgate-banksters-who-funded-transparent-scam-were-actually-co-conspirators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=1529","title":{"rendered":"WEWORKgate: Banksters Who Funded Transparent Scam Were Actually Co-Conspirators"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The Money Men Who Enabled Adam Neumann and the WeWork Debacle<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_1531\" style=\"width: 870px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1531\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-16-at-11.32.22-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"860\" height=\"855\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1531\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-16-at-11.32.22-AM.png 860w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-16-at-11.32.22-AM-300x298.png 300w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-16-at-11.32.22-AM-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-16-at-11.32.22-AM-768x764.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SoftBank\u2019s Masayoshi Son, Adam Neumann, Hony Capital\u2019s John Zhao and JPMorgan Chase\u2019s Jamie Dimon.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<h3>Veteran executives and financiers helped fuel WeWork\u2019s spectacular rise and fall, pouring in capital while ceding control to its founder<\/h3>\n<p>By Maureen Farrell and Eliot Brown<br \/>\nThe Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n<p>In early October, WeWork\u2019s board of directors trickled into a brick building in lower Manhattan where the startup had an office. After they took their seats around the conference room table, Mark Schwartz started to vent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve stayed silent too long,\u201d the 65-year-old former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. partner told the six other men on the board, including WeWork&#8217;s co-founder and chairman, Adam Neumann.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-money-men-who-enabled-adam-neumann-and-the-wework-debacle-11576299616\">https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-money-men-who-enabled-adam-neumann-and-the-wework-debacle-11576299616<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Money Men Who Enabled Adam Neumann and the WeWork Debacle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}