The And then. Hello and welcome to Behind the News, my name is Doug Henwood.

So many departures from Orthodoxy today.

We'll hear from Ariel Klagsbron who's been fighting the

under-exposed right-wing billionaire Jeff Yass, and then a debate

between Sarovomari of Compact magazine in Labor Journalist Hamilton Nolan about the allegedly

pro-worker Republicans like J.D. Vance and Josh Holly.

First, Jeff Yass.

I spent a lot of time studying money bags in their engagement with politics, but until recently I hadn't paid much attention to Jeff

Yass.

Yass, based in the Philadelphia suburbs, is a major funder of right-wing politicians and

organizations in that state and around the country.

Here to brief us is Ariel Klagsbren, the Deputy Campaign Director for Acre, the Action Center on

Race and the Economy, who works with its All Eyes on YAS campaign.

Ariel Klagsbren.

The authorities disagree on the dimensions of his cash pile.

Bloomberg says 45.6 billion. Forbes just a mere 28.5, but obviously the guy has a

pile of it. Where does money come from?

Jeff Yass is the founder and managing director of Susquehanna International Group,

which is a billion dollar market-making Wall Street firm that really is in many ways a sprawling web of many

financial interests put together. What SIG does and other firms like that like Citadel and others they really play a role within Wall Street of being a middleman for the markets.

So you may have been familiar with when the Robin Hood scandal happened, for example, the role of Citadel was put into the limelight.

SIG is very similar in that way.

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