Carl Icahn Quickly Fires Back At Taj Mahal Union

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Mark Melin
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The fight between hedge fund manager Carl Icahn and the local Atlantic City union representing casino workers is heating up yet again. After workers represented by Local 54 of UNITE-HERE, representing nearly 1,100 bartenders, bellmen and other workers at the bankrupt Trump Taj Mahal, hand delivered a letter to Trump blasting him over benefit cuts and other concessions to keep the casino open, Carl Icahn fired back at the union, calling the pension fund a “Ponzi scheme” and “a black hole.” Union delivers a letter to Carl Icahn which stirs the bees nest The vitriolic letter from the union that…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.