The Covid Collaborators | The Diversity Mire by Maddie Bannon

"The Covid Collaborators" is an investigative series by Maddie Bannon that was originally published on James Jordan's Manufacturing Reality. Visit and support his work at ManufacturingReality.org.

By Maddie Bannon @llspacejellyll

A deep dive into the long history and blemished works of Covid Collaborator Deval Patrick, former Democratic governor of Massachusetts, Rockefeller Fellow, corporate lawyer, and financier. Deval is currently teaching a course at Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership titled “Leading Through Crisis” and is the co-chair of the Covid Collaborative.

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Deval Patrick,⁠¹ one of the two co-chairs of the Covid Collaborative, describes his way of talking and dressing as “preppy” while, at the same time, reminding his audience at every allowable occasion how he grew up on welfare in a “crowded tenement” on the South Side of Chicago with his sister, mother, and grandmother.⁠² He tells stories about how he never owned a book as a child, slept on the floor, and went to “sometimes violent” public schools (isn’t every public school “sometimes violent?”). He describes his mother as a refugee of the Jim Crow South and labels himself as the American success story his mother sought in her hard-fought Illinois refuge. If Deval Patrick is anything, he is radically and bizarrely consistent in his language. Over the last few decades, he has reiterated the same talking points, stories, and opinions, often using precisely identical words and phrasing. 

For instance, here is then Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick stumping in Boston for Presidential candidate, Barack Obama in 2008:

Keys: 0:39 (poverty, south side of Chicago, break at 14 to go to boarding school in MA), 6:29 (every child on the block), 7:00 (membership in community)

Here he is, six years later, being interviewed at the MIT Leadership Center:

Keys: 1:41 (poverty, south side of Chicago, break at 14 to go to boarding school in MA), 18:56 (every child on the block), 19:19 (membership in community)

And finally, here he is in 2022, speaking about “leading through crises” at Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership: 

Keys: 5:45 (poverty, south side of Chicago, break at 14 to go to boarding school in MA), 11:57 (every child on the block), 12:02 (membership in community)

On camera and in public, sixty-three-year-old Deval keeps up a tidy appearance, avoids offensive rhetoric with the precision of a surgeon, and treats his interviewers with deference and meekness. Americans remember him for being the first black governor of Massachusetts and for his sympathetic leadership in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings.⁠³ They remember his endearingly piteous attempt to win the Democratic presidential primary bid in 2020. All of this makes Deval Patrick an ideal public face for the COVID Collaborative. That is, if people don’t look beyond the polished, woke surface.

Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack of “Blessings”

Immediately after graduating from Harvard Law School in 1982, Deval was awarded one of three Rockefeller Travelling Fellowships granted that year and spent the following twelve months in Africa. He reports to have spent that time backpacking from Cairo to Khartoum to Darfur, learning Arabic and working on an unspecified, self-designed project.⁴ Upon his return to America, he made his first career move as a law clerk after passing the California State Bar exam on his third attempt.⁠⁵ A year later, he took a job at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund where he coincidentally met Bill Clinton,⁠⁶ who, as President in 1994, nominated him for the position of US Attorney General overseeing the Civil Rights Division.⁠⁷

Deval Patrick shakes hands with then President Bill Clinton. Photo courtesy of CSPAN

During his three-year tenure at the Department of Justice (DoJ), Deval voraciously defended⁠ Clinton’s quota-style affirmative action policies⁠⁸ by which, he admits, his education and career received benefit.⁠⁹ He also took to work on standard and less controversial civil rights issues like racial profiling and hate crimes.⁠¹⁰

During his time with the Clinton Administration’s DoJ, Deval was most notably involved in the legal aftermath of Ruby Ridge (if unfamiliar, please see here or here). A joint FBI and DoJ task force investigated federal misconduct and destruction of evidence that occurred after the event and recommended that charges be filed against the FBI agents involved. This included the sniper who killed Vicki Weaver as she held her baby while standing in the doorway to her home. However, Attorney General Deval rejected that recommendation. Instead, with direction from former CIA employee and fellow attorney for the DoJ, William Barr,¹¹ he ruled that the sniper did not intend to violate her rights and did not use “excessive force.⁠”¹²

In June 1995, the secret report leaked out and made a mockery of Patrick’s “no excessive force” ruling. One FBI SWAT team member at Ruby Ridge recalled the Rules of Engagement: “If you see ’em, shoot ’em.” The report condemned that rule as practically a license to kill that flagrantly violated the U.S. Constitution. The task force was especially appalled that the Weavers were gunned down before receiving any warning or demand to surrender, noting that the FBI’s tactics “subjected the government to charges that it was setting Weaver up for attack.” Patrick apparently shrugged off such concerns.

Top FBI officials were suspended on suspicion of committing perjury on [sic] the case the following month. Though Patrick had effectively absolved the government [of any wrongdoing in the matter], the Justice Department paid $3 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit from the Weaver family. When the Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings on Ruby Ridge later that year, five FBI officials (including the sniper who killed Vicki Weaver) involved in the case invoked their Fifth Amendment rights to avoid incriminating themselves. In 1997, the chief of the FBI’s violent crimes section was sent to prison for destroying a report on the FBI’s failures at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.

http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2019/november/30/will-deval-patrick-be-president-not-if-his-past-scandals-have-anything-to-say-about-it/

The Fixer

In November of 1996, oil giant Texaco Inc. settled a lawsuit in a large racial discrimination case against the company. As part of the settlement, Deval was hired in 1997 to lead a task force to oversee the company’s employment practices.⁠¹³ While the task force was mandated to exist for five years, Deval stepped down after only one year in order to take up a position as Texaco’s General Counsel.⁠¹⁴ In announcing his decision, he cited impressive progress on racial equality at the company and a respect and familiarity with the company as factors. In addition, he was offered the position of Vice President and was invited to be a member of the executive council, which he accepted.⁠¹⁵

Screen grab from Wall Street Journal

As General Counsel at Texaco, Deval facilitated the $38.7 billion merger in 2001 between Texaco and Chevron, resulting in the fourth-largest oil company in existence at the time (Texacochevron is now in the top two behind Exxon Mobil).⁠¹⁶ In regard to civil rights, he successfully blocked the transfer of a legal case against Texaco from Ecuadorian courts to the US courts where, it was understood, Texaco would receive tougher treatment.

From LA Times

Texaco was the subject of a 1993 class-action suit on behalf of tens of thousands of indigenous peoples in the Amazon region who sought compensation for “alleged environmental and personal injuries arising out of Texaco’s oil exploration and extraction operations in the Oriente region between 1964 and 1992.”⁠¹⁷ The case was dismissed in 2001 with Deval’s aid, and set an unfortunate legal precedent for indigenous peoples seeking retribution for capitalist exploitation.

Deval hugging a decorative Coke bottle sculpture. Photo courtesy of Law.com

After having proven his priceless utility at one monolithic corporation, Deval made a shift to yet another. He resigned at Texaco after refusing to move near Chevron headquarters in California, opting instead to accept the $10.7M⁠¹⁸ offer for the positions of General Counsel, Executive Vice President, and Secretary at Coca Cola. Coke, like Texaco, was similarly mired in a race related public relations fiasco and was staring down the barrel of a $1.5B race-bias lawsuit.⁠¹⁹

During his three years with the company he favorably directed Coca Cola through two federal investigations and many⁠ legal battles.²⁰ He defended the company when it was accused of union busting and using death squads to threaten and kill workers at a bottling facility in Columbia and succeeded in having the case dismissed against Coca Cola (though the case proceeded against the bottlers).⁠²¹ On top of that, he was proudly and publicly highlighted as Coca Cola’s highest ranking black executive. To add to his success as a corporate lawyer, the $1.5B race-bias suit was dismissed by a federal judge in 2004,²² however by this time Deval had issued his resignation letter and left Coca Cola eight months later.⁠²³

From the New York Times

Deval then joined the board of ACC Capital Holdings, the parent company of the nation’s then biggest subprime mortgage lender Ameriquest.⁠²⁴ At the time he joined the board, Ameriquest was being accused of unfair lending practices by targeting poor and minority groups, and had just settled a $50 million class-action lawsuit charging the company with defrauding thousands of borrowers in four states.⁠²⁵ Speaking to a reporter from Globe, Deval said he “joined the company’s board to help Ameriquest deal with the allegations of predatory lending and to put in place policies that will protect low-income consumers.”⁠²⁶

From Wall Street Pit

Two years later, in 2006, Deval Patrick ran for Governor of Massachusetts. He chose to leave his lucrative ($360k/year)⁠²⁷ position at ACC Capital Holdings due to attacks from his gubernatorial primary competitor, Thomas Reilly. “‘I’ve been on the side of the people,’ Reilly, then the state’s attorney general, told Patrick during a debate. ‘You’ve been on the side of Ameriquest, the largest, most notorious predatory lender in the history of this country.’”⁠²⁸ In the following months, Ameriquest would be exposed for “predatory lending practices that tricked African-American applicants to take on mortgages that they couldn’t afford”⁠²⁹ and would settle in court for $325 million,⁠³⁰ going down in history as one of the largest contributors to the 2008 economic crash.

So, the amount of “help” protecting low-income consumers Ameriquest derived from Deval’s services is questionable. No matter to him, he got his governorship.

Look, I think the reason I went on that board is because they needed some help in trying to figure out how to make their products available to people who wanted homes, who couldn’t get a mortgage in the regular market. We did, I think, a lot of good work in that respect. Not all of those loans were bad loans. I think, in retrospect, the bundling of those loans and securitizing them in a volatile market was a terrible idea and contributed to a lot of the hardship. But it’s also true, it’s also true, a lot of folks who wouldn’t have been able to get access to mortgages got them and are still in their homes. So, yes, I think I wouldn’t do it again, and I don’t think Ameriquest would do that again in the same way, but I think the intentions were right and I think that the problem remains.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/16/opinion/deval-patrick-nytimes-interview.html

Spending, Scandal, and Schwab

After taking office, Deval went on to serve two terms with classic neo-liberal profligacy in a style the New York Times dubbed as a “surrogate for his friend and then-Senator Barack Obama of Illinois.”⁠³¹ He pushed heavily for and managed to pass a $13B transportation infrastructure bill,⁠³² signed a bill to mandate the use of biofuels in the state,⁠³³ lobbied the Massachusetts state legislature to block a bill challenging same-sex marriage (his daughter is gay),³⁴⁠ and attempted to create a universal preschool program and make community college free.⁠³⁵ Already facing a $1.2 billion deficit, the people in the state of Massachusetts paid for these spending programs through increased taxation.

From Boston.com, Boston Globe Archives

Getting re-elected as governor in 2010 was difficult for Deval. Voters were already uneasy from tax increases and a lavish state spending spree. In regard to his character, however, he faced justifiably harsh criticism for using his newfound position to the benefit of his family, specifically his brother-in-law, Bernard Sigh. 

In 1993, while the couple was living in California, Mr. Sigh was charged with and convicted of spousal rape by Deval’s sister, Rhonda Patrick-Sigh.⁠³⁶ The two reconciled after the 1993 rape and then moved to Massachusetts some years later. After Deval was elected as Governor, this conviction was brought to the public’s attention by his political opponents and he was facing scrutiny for having a close relationship with a convicted rapist. Furthermore, Mr. Sigh had not yet registered in Massachussetts as a sex offender. In 2007, Mr. Sigh appealed an order to register as such and the hearing officer in the state granted the appeal. Unlike in California, Massachusetts law does not include a law specifically called “spousal rape,” and the hearing officer made a controversial choice to classify his conviction as something more similar to indecent assault and battery than rape. 

Deval surprised his constituents by remaining involved, even going so far as to endorse the decision of the hearing officer. Then, “after two women who worked for the Sex Offender Registry Board tried to intervene and change the ruling, the hearing officer quit, sued the state, and won a [$60,000] settlement. In 2014, just before he left office, Patrick fired both women — the board member who had tried to overrule him and the agency’s executive director.”⁠³⁷

Snapshot from the Boston Globe

Instead of recusing himself of involvement due to glaringly obvious conflicts of interest, Deval admittedly chose to insert himself into the situation and used his position to manipulate the outcome.⁠³⁸ Naturally, this choice led to severe blowback by anti-rape activist groups and his Democratic opponents when he chose to run for re-election as Governor in 2010 and again in his run for President in 2020. “‘There’s often decisions made about how to handle specific offenders that are based on positional power,’ said Gina Scaramella, executive director of the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center. She added that it seemed the Sex Offender Registry Board was trying to guard against preferential treatment for a relative of the governor and to prevent any sort of coverup.’”⁠³⁹

From Boston Magazine

In the end, Mr. Sigh did have his name added to the Sex Offender Registry and landed in prison for up to eight years. He faced more charges in 2019 by his then estranged wife Mrs. Patrick-Sigh and was convicted on two counts of rape, stalking, kidnapping, and violating a restraining order.⁠⁴⁰ Mrs. Patrick-Sigh and her legal counsel requested a fifteen year sentence at a minimum, citing her terrifying fear of seeing him in public in the future.⁠⁴¹ The conviction and her request for a harsher sentence calls Deval’s motivations for intervening into question as “[Mr. Sigh] is the man who [he] insisted did not need to be registered as a sex offender and intervened to keep off the sex offender list.”⁠⁴²

Despite this lurid controversy and a few other⁠ scandals,⁴³ including using taxpayer money to upgrade his Ford to a Cadillac, traveling throughout the small state of Massachusetts on a helicopter, cutting the state budget due to the 2008 financial crisis in which he was at least somewhat directly involved, etc., that occurred during his tenure, Deval is proud of his achievements as Governor. His second term ended with high employment throughout Massachusetts and he claims that the state is “on fire” in the “innovation sectors of biotech and life sciences, clean tech, the major digital technologies, [and] advanced manufacturing.”⁠⁴⁴

From left: Robert Califf, Deval Patrick, and Rajiv Shah.

These innovation sectors just so happen to perfectly align with the goals of Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum (WEF), its 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR), the goals of the Covid Collaborators Dr. Robert Califf and Rockefeller President Dr. Rajiv Shah, and other neo-liberal globalist transhumanists, however that may be precisely why he is so proud. Deval’s work as governor successfully made Massachusetts a magnet for companies and investors interested in biotechnology-based pharmaceuticals, green energy, and “clean technology.”

In 2015, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) hosted a conference on “social impact investing.” The unoriginal idea sounds a lot like both Rajiv Shah’s “impact investing” and Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF)’s “effective altruism” and seems to be the same nauseatingly under-thought utilitarian concept in practice. Deval, a keynote speaker at the conference, spins the idea as “doing well by doing good.” This event caught the WEF’s attention, earning it a report in their “Institutional Investors” sub-section on their website.

From the World Economic Forum

Whatever name one assigns to it, what is being practiced by Shah, SBF, MIT through their “impact investing” mechanism MI3, and others is a massive and coordinated flow of money to projects they deem “good” for the greatest number, regardless of risk and almost entirely without oversight by or input from those who would have no option but to live with the consequences. Based on all we have seen so far from this misguided and historically discredited philosophy, it can be inferred with some certainty that what they deem as “good” for people is health by subscription, total surveillance, gene therapy and editing, increased, if not absolute, governmental control of the populace for the sake of “safety,” and other socio-economic and political practices to subvert and disarm the individual for the benefit of “the collective.”

Deval may have become a true-believer, ideologically possessed by this utilitarian notion of reifying his interpretation of good ends through dubious means. Or, more plausibly, the simple and high-paying incentives were enough for him to get on board. Either way, the culturally palatable perceptual characteristics of do-gooderism lent Deval a helping hand into the lucrative world of big finance. After his last days as governor of Massachusetts, he took a position at one of the WEF’s friendly and ideologically inclined money managers to put this “impact investing” idea into practice with big dollars at his disposal.

BANE

For four years, Deval Patrick directed a fund he founded at private equity company Bain Capital, an offshoot of the global management consulting firm Bain & Company. Bain Capital was co-founded in 1984 by William Bain and fellow Bay Stater Mitt Romney and went on to collect and manage over $100B in assets. After getting a strong foothold in the private equity market through venture capital opportunities and leveraged buyouts (LBOs), Bain Capital has outwardly reinvented itself by becoming an Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) champion. Seeking the elusive image of being a massive money making machine that also does “good” for society, the environment, and the world, Bain now touts thinking “holistically about returns.”⁠⁴⁵

The way that Bain contributes to sustainability goals, inclusivity, diversity, and education works very well for the World Economic Forum, which describes Bain as a company that helps “change makers define the future.”⁠⁴⁶ “Bain has been a strategic partner of the World Economic Forum for 19 years, helping to set its agenda, develop new research and inspire global change.”⁠⁴⁷ Their highly involved efforts with the WEF have included driving faster digital and food systems “transformations”⁠⁴⁸ through capital investment and company management, advising on economic strategy,⁴⁹⁠ enabling supply chain “traceability,”⁠⁵⁰ as well as investing in the digitization of retail luxury goods so people may sell them in the secondhand market using a QR code to verify their authenticity.⁠⁵¹ Since 2015, Bain and its affiliates have been outspoken advocates of Klaus Schwab’s 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR, AKA Industry 4.0). 

In 2016, under the theme of ‘The Fourth Industrial Revolution and its Transformational Impact’, some 1,700 leaders representing the next generation of fast-growing enterprises shaping the future of business and society, as well as leaders from major multinationals, gathered in Tianjin (PRC) for the 10th Annual Meeting of the New Champions on science, technology and innovation from June 26-28, 2016.

Kevin Meehan facilitated a discussion on ‘The Governance of Progress’. The discussion revolved around governance models and strategies that will maximize the benefit to society, as technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution become integral to people’s lives.

https://www.bain.com/archive/world-economic-forum-davos/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions/

In 2018, WEF commissioned them to “identify how Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies can help facilitate trade in the future,”⁠⁵² and Bain found that blockchain technology can increase global trade by $1 trillion. Apparently, the 4IR offers a lot of opportunity for private equity, and Bain is entirely on board.⁠⁵³

Bain declares it cares not only about returns for its investors but also about the world and the people who live in it, but this is difficult to believe given the often gory nature of private equity and the company’s history. Co-founder Mitt Romney landed in very hot water for his intimate and profitable relationship with Bain Capital when running for President on a platform of national debt reduction. Diligent journalism and cuttingly true political criticism managed to convince Romney, at length, to sell off his ownership to skirt the accusation of being “one of the greatest and most irresponsible debt creators of all time.”⁠⁵⁴

Even private equity’s most enthusiastic adherents have difficulty explaining its benefit to society. Marc Wolpow, a former Bain colleague of Romney’s, told reporters during Mitt’s first Senate run that Romney erred in trying to sell his business as good for everyone. “I believed he was making a mistake by framing himself as a job creator,” said Wolpow. “That was not his or Bain’s or the industry’s primary objective. The objective of the [leveraged buyout] business is maximizing returns for investors.” When it comes to private equity, American workers – not to mention their families and communities – simply don’t enter into the equation.

Ibid.

Now, social good and private equity may sound to you like two things that cannot be combined, and you may be completely right. That being said, Deval Patrick decided to go along with his motto of “rejecting false choices” and attempt it anyway. In 2015, he founded Bain Capital’s Double Impact Fund,⁠⁵⁵ which he describes as “impact investing”⁠⁵⁶ in “mission-driven companies.” The fund uses money from investors and, mostly, large amounts of borrowed money from banks like Goldman Sachs or Citi Group to buy a controlling stake in those companies and manage them, for a hefty fee of course. 

What does the vulture eat?

Typical of most other private equity practices, and acutely at Bain, the debt created by the equity firm to buy a company is shrugged off to that same company it just bought, as was reported by Matt Taibbi for Rolling Stone in 2012. Now that company is forced to repay the bank, usually in $1-$2 million amounts annually, and pay Bain additional fees for management. Despite the additional financial burden, this arrangement works out for the acquired company in some cases. Bain frequently points to Staples as an example of success. Not always, but often enough, being a target of investment by Bain results in massive layoffs and plant or store closures, and sometimes the total obliteration of the acquired company. As the Rolling Stone article puts it, “either way, Bain wins. By power-sucking cash value from even the most rapidly dying firms, private equity raiders like Bain almost always get their cash out before a target goes belly up.”⁠⁵⁷

With deep pockets and a win-or-win strategy, Deval’s Double Impact Fund did not wait to make dozens of investments in what constitutes an eclectic collection of food, health, fitness, early childhood education, and retail companies.⁠⁵⁸ Its stated mission is to serve as active partners, building the companies by “maximizing their financial potential, and scaling their social and environmental impact.”⁠⁵⁹ However, more than a few of the companies in the Double Impact Fund’s portfolio have been the subject of lawsuits, including a vegan fast casual restaurant chain⁠⁶⁰ and one healthcare company.⁠⁶¹ Some have gone bankrupt.⁶². The Double Impact Fund itself was sued in 2020 for an alleged “hostile takeover.”⁠⁶³ This is not what it means to do social good, but it is how private equity does it and it certainly makes an impact.

Hail Mary

In a late entry to the race, Deval left Bain Capital (perhaps learning from Romney in his attempt) in November of 2019 to run for President. He sought to win the Democratic primary vote by pitching his frequently repeated rags-to-riches story and reminding voters of his close friendship with former President Barack Obama. Within a week, Bain took care to scrub his managing director profile from their website.⁠⁶⁴ In his announcement video,⁶⁵ Deval was sure to represent himself as a corporate reformer who wants to build “a better, more sustainable, more inclusive American dream for the next generation,”but makes no mention of his time at Bain who, by that time, was well known for “profiting from failure at the public expense.”⁠⁶⁶

Courtesy of Rolling Stone and the WayBackMachine

On top of this, Deval’s campaign received unlimited funding through his hybrid PAC, Reason To Believe.⁠⁶⁷ In complete opposition to grassroots funding, the PAC raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars from just a handful of wealthy private donors.⁠⁶⁸ Just six donations accounted for $620k, of which $350k came from private equity.⁠⁶⁹ He later received $50k from the CEO of Massachusetts-based Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Back in the pre-COVID days, when Democrats and their voters were unabashedly anti-corporation, Deval’s presidential run was considered “the longest of long shots.”⁠⁷⁰ Here, again, we see his motto of “rejecting false choices” in action, but at this point it is becoming apparent that the “false” choices in question are those that are logically sound.

“If I felt like the voters had settled or folks had made up their minds,” Patrick told the Boston Globe, “I wouldn’t do it.”

But in a campaign cycle where presidential candidates from every lane have denounced the outsized role of money in politics, the oil and natural gas industry, and “vulture capitalism,” Patrick’s résumé—marked by lucrative stints at Texaco, Bain Capital and subprime mortgage abattoir ACC Holdings—risks making him a foil for both progressive and centrist rivals for the nomination. Well-placed Democrats told The Daily Beast that the distance between the current mood of the Democratic presidential field and the controversial private sector industries where Patrick has made his living may be too vast to cover—and could make him little more than a punching bag for better-funded candidates.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/deval-patricks-resume-is-a-one-stop-shop-of-industries-democrats-loathe (my emphasis)

And, they were right. Democratic voters overwhelmingly rejected Deval’s bid and he nearly failed to even register in polling data. Despite Bain’s efforts at erasing his history at the company, Deval encountered substantial and unrelenting criticism for it. Shortly after his announcement, “Twitter [was] already ablaze with Democrats who can’t understand how a ‘private equity guy’ expects to get the nomination in 2019, let alone one from the same firm that Mitt Romney founded.”⁠⁷¹ Throughout his campaign tour, attendees presented him with concerns about his ties to Ameriquest, Bain, and oil giant Texaco. Deval did not show remorse, instead defending his choices to work for those companies and deflecting to the sensitive topic of race.

I for one am tired of the caricaturing we do of each other. We do it to companies, we do it to people,” he said. “I couldn’t tell you how many people, when I’m not in a suit — and even if I am — what they see? Black man. And everything else they think they know. They do it in politics, they do it in life.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2019/11/18/deval-patrick-bain-capital-ameriquest-private-equity-housing-sub-loan-iowa-des-moines-democrat-2020/4232395002/

From CNN Politics

After three and a half months of campaigning, Deval called it quits on his Presidential run. In New Hampshire primary polling, a neighbor to Massachusetts whose voters knew him well, he failed to pull even 1% of respondents.⁠⁷² This, along with the flop of having too few donors to qualify for debates and town halls, solidified his decision to drop out.

Old Dog, Same Old Tricks

Following his lamentably feeble Presidential bid, Deval has returned to Bain, taking up a position as Senior Advisor⁠⁷³ and sitting on the Impact Advisory Council. Established in 2020, the Impact Advisory Council is meant to provide “strategic guidance on outcome measurement within [Bain’s] portfolio companies, as well as to challenge and strengthen [Bain’s] impact objectives and measurement methodology.”⁠⁷⁴

From Bain Capital Double Impact

In addition to his new role as co-chair for the Covid Collaborative, Deval accepted a teaching position at Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership teaching students how to “lead through crises.” He also joined the boards of Global Blood Therapeutics, Twilio, Toast, and, most notably, biopharmaceutical company Cerevel.⁠⁷⁵

Cerevel was founded in late 2018 through a partnership between Pfizer and Bain Capital who supplied the $350 million needed to start the company.⁠⁷⁶ With nothing yet on the market, the company has already gone public and is pushing four drug candidates through clinical testing, targeting central nervous system diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases and the symptoms of psychological disorders like anxiety and psychosis.⁠⁷⁷ Investors are confident in their success,⁷⁸ though, seeing some obfuscated promise in unproven treatments. Cerevel attributes their confidence to “recent advancements in chemistry, genomics and proteomics [that] have provided tools to enable a better understanding of the neural networks that underlie these diseases.”⁠⁷⁹

Courtesy of Cerevel

As of June, 2022, Deval has received over $570k in equity from Cerevel and sits on the board of directors with two managing directors at Bain and two business directors at Pfizer. Data from phase 2 and phase 3 trials for each of Cerevel’s four drugs will be available in 2023.⁠⁸⁰

Is this thing on?

The vast majority of public appearances by the Covid Collaborative and almost all videos published by them have featured Deval Patrick. The videos are trite and have not aged well. Largely, they call on more people to be vaccinated to “defeat the scourge,” emphasizing the importance of global authority cooperation, and lambasting the political nature of the pandemic. “‘This virus does not respect state lines. It does not know about blue states or red states,’ said Deval Patrick, former Governor of Massachusetts (D) and co-chair of COVID Collaborative. ‘It’s on all of us to come together to beat this crisis—and I have faith that America’s Governors will continue to step up to answer the call.’”⁠⁸¹ At most, these videos receive a little over one thousand views.⁠⁸²

In early 2020, John Bridgeland (CEO of the Covid Collaborative), Dirk Kempthorne (former governor of Idaho-R), and Deval hosted a “fireside chat” with Dr. Anthony Fauci.⁠⁸³ After calling Dr. Fauci a “true national hero,” they went on to claim that Covid-19 has killed more people than WWII (dubious at best). Fauci touched on the NIH statistics that 40% of all infections are asymptomatic and 59% of all transmissions originate in asymptomatic individuals (this has since been thoroughly debunked). Therefore, everyone should be treated as sick, everyone subject to all extreme containment measures (children and the elderly suffered the worst from policies like lockdowns). Fauci opines that those who die with Covid-19 and comorbidities “almost certainly died of Covid.” Deval throws softball questions to Fauci about the importance of wearing masks even after getting the Covid-19 injections (then only 2 were required) to which Fauci replies with the party line “95% safe and effective,” but you still need to stay away from grandma as she wilts, dying of loneliness in her nursing home. 

From NAB.org

Beyond zoom meetings and YouTube videos, Deval was also sent to locations like Pittsfield, Massachusetts to speak with minority groups to encourage more confidence in and uptake of Covid injections within alleged BIPOC communities.⁠⁸⁴ Later, he appealed to Biden’s sympathies when calling for the creation of a federal fund to provide children who lost their caregiver to Covid with financial and mental assistance.⁠⁸⁵ Five months later the Biden White House took legal action on it, extending the financial and social services to relevant parties.⁠⁸⁶

On these fronts, very little content has been produced by the Covid Collaborative or Deval Patrick since April, 2022. It seems Deval is focused on his position as a professor at Harvard and fulfilling his other duties on the boards of directors and as a senior advisor at Bain. Anyway, how important is it to have a public face when only a thousand people are watching you? As we heard from Biden this year, “the pandemic is over,”⁠⁸⁷ but money can be made any time.

Note: My writing is my opinion and best representation of the news and publicly available information I find on the internet. I encourage my readers to do their own research and come to their own conclusions.

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1. COVID Collaborative. “Deval Patrick.” Accessed 2022. https://www.covidcollaborative.us/team/deval-patrick-2

2. Ibid.

Raz, Guy. “How I Build Resilience: Live With Deval Patrick.” NPR: How I Built This Podcast. 25 June, 2020. https://www.npr.org/2020/06/23/882523983/how-i-built-resilience-live-with-deval-patrick

Morning Edition “'Lessons' From Deval Patrick: A (Not) Likely Story." NPR Author Interviews. 12 April, 2011. https://www.npr.org/2011/04/12/135242435/lessons-from-deval-patrick-a-not-likely-story

Council on Foreign Relations. “A Conversation with Deval Patrick.” 21 January, 2020. https://www.cfr.org/event/conversation-deval-patrick

3. Roeder, Amy. “Former Mass. Governor Deval Patrick on leadership during Boston Marathon bombing response.” Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. 12 November, 2015. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/former-mass-governor-deval-patrick-on-leadership-during-boston-marathon-bombing-response/

4. Council on Foreign Relations. “A Conversation with Deval Patrick.” 21 January, 2020. https://www.cfr.org/event/conversation-deval-patrick

The Brookings Institution. “PLACE-BASED POLICIES FOR SHARED ECONOMIC GROWTH.” Hamilton Project Policy Forum. 28 September, 2018. https://www.hamiltonproject.org/assets/files/092818-BROOKINGS-HAMILTON.pdf

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7. Duke, Lynne. “CIVIL RIGHTS IS FAMILIAR TERRAIN FOR CLINTON'S JUSTICE CHOICE.” The Washington Post. 14 February, 1994. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/02/14/civil-rights-is-familiar-terrain-for-clintons-justice-choice/b5029651-094f-4733-8abf-037fb87671f1/

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Healy, Melissa. “Clinton Official Defends Affirmative Action Programs : Congress: Deval Patrick tells House panel to dismiss the ‘myth’ that unqualified minorities are being given preferential treatment.” Los Angeles Times. 25 March, 1995. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-03-25-mn-46946-story.html

Note (From Los Angeles Times article): “In a pending review of affirmative action programs, the White House is open to making changes, Patrick said. But “there is no interest here in retreating on the basic issue and basic commitment to expanding opportunities for all Americans.” […] Reverse discrimination “is a powerful . . . symbol,” he said. But he added that such cases are rare, making up fewer than 2% of cases pending before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.”

8. Clinton, Bill. “The Job of Ending Discrimination in This Country Is Not Over.” Speech, 19 July, 1995. Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/affirm/docs/clintonspeech.htm

Keller, Jon. “Saint Patrick and His Devils.” Boston Magazine. 9 May, 2006. https://www.bostonmagazine.com/2006/05/09/boston-magazine-saint-patrick-and-his-devils/

Quotes (From Boston Magazine article):

“In 1995 testimony before a congressional subcommittee, anti-quota conservative Clint Bolick of the Institute for Justice accused Patrick of ‘shedding any pretense of impartial law enforcement in favor of unbridled ideological activism.’”

“And Patrick’s zeal for affirmative action issues has raised eyebrows well beyond the right wing. “Deval Patrick has committed the Clinton administration to a vision of racial preference that fulfills the most extravagant fantasies of a conservative attack ad,” wrote Paul Burka in a 1994 New Republic article. ‘Rather than honestly confronting the costs of affirmative action, Patrick has blithely endorsed the most extreme form of racialism.’”

9. Healy, Melissa. “Clinton Official Defends Affirmative Action Programs : Congress: Deval Patrick tells House panel to dismiss the ‘myth’ that unqualified minorities are being given preferential treatment.” Los Angeles Times. 25 March, 1995. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-03-25-mn-46946-story.html

Quote:

“Patrick, 38, a soft-spoken Harvard Law School graduate who is African American, readily acknowledged that his education and career had been helped by affirmative action.”

10. National Governors Association. “Gov. Deval Patrick.” Accessed 2022. https://www.nga.org/governor/deval-patrick/

C-SPAN. “Civil Rights Division Nomination.” Video. 1 February, 1994. https://www.c-span.org/video/?54197-1/civil-rights-division-nomination

11. Bovard, James. “Attorney General Barr: Defender of FBI Snipers.” The Future of Freedom Foundation. 1 June, 2019. https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/attorney-general-barr-defender-of-fbi-snipers/

12. Bovard, James. “Will Deval Patrick be president? Not if his past scandals have anything to say about it.” USA Today. 27 November, 2019. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/11/27/deval-patrick-president-scandals-civil-rights-attorney-general-weaver-column/4242158002/

Bovard, James. “Will Deval Patrick be president? Not if his past scandals have anything to say about it.” The Ron Paul Institute. 30 November, 2019. http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2019/november/30/will-deval-patrick-be-president-not-if-his-past-scandals-have-anything-to-say-about-it/

13. Walsh, Sharon. “DEVAL PATRICK TO HEAD TEXACO TASK FORCE.” The Washington Post. 24 June, 1997. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1997/06/24/deval-patrick-to-head-texaco-task-force/ce8b5825-2da6-44eb-a4e2-9cac0cd2a073/

14. Wall Street Journal Staff Reporter. “Texaco Names Patrick, Chairman Of Task Force, as General Counsel.” The Wall Street Journal. 16 December, 1998. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB913770457533389500

15. Hamilton, Martha M. “EX-U.S. OFFICIAL TO BE TEXACO COUNSEL.” The Washington Post. 17 December, 1998. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1998/12/17/ex-us-official-to-be-texaco-counsel/e0816833-2f7c-4e9f-80f1-8f94c2c8298d/

16. O’Reilly, David J., Tilton, Glenn F., Boards of Directors, Chevron and Texaco. “TO CHEVRON AND TEXACO STOCKHOLDERS: A PROPOSAL TO MERGE OUR COMPANIES.” Memo to stockholders, signed 27 August, 2001. http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/nys/cvx/reports/specialproxy.pdf

Note: TexacoChevron (AKA Chevron) is continuing to exist as an oil behemoth, having earned $6.5B in the first quarter of 2022 alone.

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18. LeBlanc, Steve. “Patrick offered $10.7M as Coca-Cola executive.” South Coast TODAY. 25 August, 2006. https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/news/2006/08/25/patrick-offered-10-7m-as/50286502007/

19. Wall Street Journal Staff Reporter. “Coke Names Deval Patrick As New General Counsel.” Wall Street Journal. 25 January, 2001. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB980379695158676997

20. Simao, Paul. “Scandal brews at Coke over ex-employee's allegations.” The Globe and Mail. 9 June, 2003. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/scandal-brews-at-coke-over-ex-employees-allegations/article4141021/

Original citation (paywalled): https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/31/business/coke-employees-are-questioned-in-fraud-inquiry.html

Center for Ethical Organizational Cultures. “The Coca-Cola Company Struggles with Ethical Crises.” Auburn University. Accessed 2022. https://harbert.auburn.edu/binaries/documents/center-for-ethical-organizational-cultures/cases/coca-cola.pdf

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22. Leith, S., Cox News Service. “JUDGE DISMISSES COCA-COLA LAWSUIT.” Orlando Sentinel. 1 June, 2004. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-2004-06-01-0406010064-story.html

23. The Associated Press. “Coca-Cola's general counsel resigns.” NBC News. 12 April, 2004. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna4722025

24. Cape Cod Times. “Deval Patrick Severs Link to Ameriquest.” Updated 6 January 2011. https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/2006/05/16/deval-patrick-severs-link-to/50896192007/

Bixby, Scott. “Big Oil, Subprime Lenders—Deval Patrick’s Résumé Is a One-Stop Shop of Industries Democrats Loathe.” Daily Beast. Updated 15 November, 2019. https://www.thedailybeast.com/deval-patricks-resume-is-a-one-stop-shop-of-industries-democrats-loathe

25. Phillips, Frank. “Patrick tied to company under fire.” Archive, Boston.com. 20 April, 2005. http://archive.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/04/20/patrick_tied_to_company_under/

26. Ibid.

27. Editorial Board. “Deval Patrick.” Interview, The New York Times. Published 16 January, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/16/opinion/deval-patrick-nytimes-interview.html

28. Johnson, Glen. “Rivals sparring over financial issues.” Telegram.com. Updated 7 May, 2006. https://www.telegram.com/story/news/local/north/2006/05/07/rivals-sparring-over-financial-issues/53100846007/

Bixby, Scott. “Big Oil, Subprime Lenders—Deval Patrick’s Résumé Is a One-Stop Shop of Industries Democrats Loathe.” Daily Beast. Updated 15 November, 2019. https://www.thedailybeast.com/deval-patricks-resume-is-a-one-stop-shop-of-industries-democrats-loathe

29. Ibid.

30. Cape Cod Times. “Deval Patrick Severs Link to Ameriquest.” Updated 6 January 2011. https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/2006/05/16/deval-patrick-severs-link-to/50896192007/

Attorneys General. Settlement Agreement, press release. 01/2006. New York State Attorney General Office. https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/press-releases/archived/Amq%20Final%20Settlement%20Agreement.pdf

31. Stevens, M., Saul, S. “Where Does Deval Patrick Stand on the Issues?” The New York Times. 13 November, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/13/us/politics/deval-patrick-bio.html

32. Tuthill, Paul. “MassDOT Says $13 Billion Needed For Transportation Over Next Decade.” WAMC Northeast Public Radio. 14 January, 2013. https://www.wamc.org/new-england-news/2013-01-14/massdot-says-13-billion-needed-for-transportation-over-next-decade

33. Mass High Tech Staff. “Gov. Patrick signs Clean Energy Biofuels Act.” Boston Business Journal. 30 July, 2008. https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/mass-high-tech/2008/07/gov-patrick-signs-clean-energy-biofuels-act.html

34. The Associated Press. “Governor’s daughter is gay; dad says he’s proud.” NBC News. 12 June, 2008. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna25121588

35. The Associated Press, cmaadmin (EDU). “Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick eyes free education from age 3 through community college.” Diverse issues in higher education. 6 August, 2007. https://www.diverseeducation.com/leadership-policy/article/15085048/massachusetts-governor-deval-patrick-eyes-free-education-from-age-3-through-community-college

36. Ebbert, Stephanie. “Deval Patrick’s intervention over ex-brother-in-law brings renewed criticism.” Boston Globe. 15 November, 2019. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/11/15/deval-patrick-facing-new-scrutiny-for-handling-family-rape-case/LnduhVc85bHU2Rr84AHn5O/story.html

37. Ibid.

Kranish, Michael. “Deval Patrick pushed out officials who wanted to put his brother-in-law on sex offender registry.” The Seattle Times. Updated 15 November, 2019. https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/deval-patrick-pushed-out-officials-who-wanted-to-put-his-brother-in-law-on-sex-offender-registry/

38. Ibid.

39. Ebbert, Stephanie. “Deval Patrick’s intervention over ex-brother-in-law brings renewed criticism.” Boston Globe. 15 November, 2019. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/11/15/deval-patrick-facing-new-scrutiny-for-handling-family-rape-case/LnduhVc85bHU2Rr84AHn5O/story.html

40. Ibid.

41. Szaniszlo, Marie. “Deval Patrick’s former brother-in-law gets prison time in rape, kidnapping.” Boston Herald. Updated 25 June, 2019. https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/06/24/gov-deval-patricks-ex-brother-in-law-gets-prison-time-in-former-wifes-rape-kidnapping/

42. Geraghty, Jim. “These New Candidates Come with Heavy Baggage.” National Review. 15 November, 2019. https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/these-new-candidates-come-with-heavy-baggage/

43. The Associated Press. “Gov. Patrick Seeks $30M For Costs Of Mass. Drug Lab Scandal.” WBZ CBS New Boston. 31 October, 2012. https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/gov-patrick-seeks-30m-for-costs-of-mass-drug-lab-scandal/

Schoenberg, Shira. “Here’s what 2020 presidential candidate Deval Patrick did — and failed to do — as Massachusetts governor.” 15 November, 2019. https://www.masslive.com/news/2019/11/heres-what-2020-presidential-candidate-deval-patrick-did-and-failed-to-do-as-massachusetts-governor.html

44. The Associated Press. “Gov. Deval Patrick Reflects On His Tenure, Legacy.” WBZ CBS News Boston. 21 November, 2014. https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/gov-deval-patrick-reflects-on-his-tenure-legacy/

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54. Taibbi, Matt. “Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital.” Rolling Stone. 29 August, 2012. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital-183291/

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59. Bixby, Scott. “Big Oil, Subprime Lenders—Deval Patrick’s Résumé Is a One-Stop Shop of Industries Democrats Loathe.” Daily Beast. Updated 15 November, 2019. https://www.thedailybeast.com/deval-patricks-resume-is-a-one-stop-shop-of-industries-democrats-loathe

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61. Meyer, Theodoric. “Inside Deval Patrick’s time at Bain Capital.” POLITICO. 12 December, 2019. https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/12/deval-patrick-bain-083986

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69. Ibid.

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“A massive $350,000 came from Paul and Dan Fireman, who manage a private equity firm in Massachusetts.”

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72. Axelrod, Tal. “Deval Patrick drops out of 2020 race.” The Hill. 12 February, 2020. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/482695-deval-patrick-suspends-presidential-campaign/

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74. Ibid.

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