He also counts many influential friends in Washington, and his staff has included a former CIA Africa division head. Taking up his father's New York diamond brokerage at an early age, the Belgian-born Tempelsman used Adlai Stevenson as a lawyer between Stevenson's presidential bids. Still a Democratic donor by dint of cultural inertia, Tempelsman today has added things Russian to his interests. As usual, his connections are flawless. Browse The full Mother Jones 400 list.
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