Wall Street billionaire Leon Black was one of the early investors in Western LNG, and the Texas company’s Ksi Lisims gas terminal project here in B.C.
Black also traveled to Russia with Donald Trump, and paid their mutual friend Jeffrey Epstein at least $170 million USD for, he claims, “financial advice”.
Child sex trafficker Epstein died in a prison cell in 2019. But he’s back in the news, thanks to Trump blocking the release of files that could expose Epstein’s global network.
That’s brought fresh scrutiny of Leon Black, one of the rich and powerful men connected to both Epstein and Trump.
Black was forced to step down as Chairman and CEO of Apollo Global Management over his connections to Epstein. He left the company – and its LNG investments – in the hands of co-founder Marc Rowan.
But Black still owns billions in Apollo stock. Along with Blackstone CEO and Trump donor Stephen Schwarzman, Black would be one of the winners if Ksi Lisims LNG is approved by the B.C. government.
Will Premier David Eby deliver a big payday for Trump’s inner circle of Lolita Express-riding Manhattan billionaires? Or will he stop this takeover of our energy resources by U.S. private equity firms?
Read more about Leon Black, Jeffrey Epstein and PRGT – the pipeline we’re calling the President’s Republican Gas Tentacle.