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Read An Interview With Harry

Apr 05, 2010

Harry sat down with Ira Stoll for an extended interview recently, and Ira put together an insightful, detailed look at Harry and his campaign for comptroller.

Excerpt:

Mr. Wilson says he's wrestled with the issue of shareholder litigation as a pension fund manager. He sees the importance of shareholder activism within capitalism, but he worries about setting a precedent for someone coming later who would be less thoughtful about when to be an activist. He seems to have concluded that as a general matter, as comptroller, he "would not be an active litigator."

I ask what he thinks, as a former private equity manager, about taxes on the carried interest of private equity managers. "I wouldn't support any new taxes," he says.

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