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MercurysBall2 ago

Remember this famous photo of Clinton in the water at Casa de Campo in the Dominican Republic?

Bill and Hillary Clinton attended the wedding of Roland Gonzalez Bunster's daughter at their home in Casa de Campo https://www.vogue.com/article/carolina-gonzalez-bunster-stefano-bonfiglio-wedding-dominican-republic

Banker turned fundraiser Carolina Gonzalez-Bunster met Stefano Bonfiglio, who works in private equity at Stirling Square Capital Partners, randomly in a London restaurant in 2011...When it came time to plan the wedding, the couple quickly decided on Casa Pacifica, Carolina’s family’s home at Casa de Campo resort, in La Romana, Dominican Republic.

Her husband Stefano runs a private equity firm Stirling Square which owns National Fostering Group, a group of 14 independent fostering agencies. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7482191/parents-whove-lost-kids-in-shadowy-secret-courts-slam-ruthless-millionaires-cashing-in-on-uks-fostering-crisis/

Parents who’ve lost kids in shadowy secret courts slam ruthless millionaires cashing in on UK’s fostering crisis..

They charge huge fees to councils for fostering which last year was at a record high of 53,420 children - three-quarters of all those in care - with 78,000 placements. Thousands of parents across the country are being dragged into secretive courts each year where social services are removing children in record numbers.

One founder of a £1billion private equity fund which owns a number of fostering agencies through huge amounts of debt is a super-rich socialite understood to be worth hundreds of millions of pounds. Stefano Bonfiglio, 54 - ex-partner of TV presenter Trinny Woodall - lives in a five-storey £15million mansion in west London owned by a holding company based in a shady tax haven. His wedding to ex-Goldman Sachs banker Carolina Gonzalez-Bunster featured in Vogue magazine and was attended by Hillary and Bill Clinton.

The Italian's firm Stirling Square Capital Partners (SSCP) - said to have £1billion invested across the globe and run by investment bankers - boasts on its website of ploughing cash into military hardware manufacturers.

The equity fund's portfolio includes the National Fostering Agency, Acorn Care and Education's fostering firms and at least two military hardware companies AD Industrie and Mettis Aerospace - which makes missile and torpedo parts. The agencies earned £15million in profit last year from fostering and care - money which campaigners say should be going back into the system.

Turnover for the National Fostering Agency grew by an extraordinary 46 per cent last year to more than £100million.The equity fund - which paid £435million for the two care businesses - also uses a holding company called SSCP Spring Holdings SCA based in Luxembourg to route cash out of the UK.