Larry Fink as Wall St. Dr. Evil?

Larry Fink Says ESG Narrative Has Become Ugly, Personal

BlackRock Inc. Chief Executive Officer Larry Fink said the narrative around ESG investing has become ugly and is creating “huge polarization.”

“I’m taking this very seriously,” Fink said in an interview with Bloomberg TV at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

“We are trying to address the misconceptions. It’s hard because it’s not business any more, they’re doing it in a personal way. And for the first time in my professional career, attacks are now personal.

They’re trying to demonize the issues.”

 

USA Before

Larry Fink and the Blackrock Gang “helped” out the working class

From left to right: Josie (6 years old), Bertha (6 years old), and Sophie (10 years old) 

A group of young girls on a break from their jobs as oyster shuckers at a seafood canning company in Port Royal, South Carolina, in 1911.

 

What do I always say, evil has to come packaged as help.

 

The US labor department released two disturbing photos of underage children working illegally for Packers Sanitation Services Incorporated (PSSI) in a Nebraska slaughterhouse.

USA NOW: Shocking photos show kids as young as 13 hired by Blackstone firm to clean slaughterhouse

2023

What has changed?

Children hired to work graveyard shifts cleaning slaughterhouses, Labor Department says

A Wisconsin industrial cleaning company is, including one who was 13, to clean meat processing plants in Minnesota and Nebraska.

According to a civil complaint filed by the U.S. Labor Department in the U.S. District Court of Nebraska, Packers Sanitation Services Inc. employed more than 30 children, ages 13 to 17, as cleaners in JBS USA meat packing plants in Grand Island, Nebraska, and Worthington, Minnesota, and at Turkey Valley Farms in Marshall, Minnesota.

Federal labor law prohibits the use of workers under 18 on killing floors or on mechanized processing equipment because the work is a federally designated “hazardous occupation.”

The company is accused of violating federal labor laws by employing at least one worker under 14 to clean a slaughtering and meatpacking plant, employing children under 15 to work overnight shifts during the school year and employing workers under 18 to work on the killing floor and clean power-driven machines.

The Labor Department said several underage employees were injured on the job, including a 13-year-old who was burned by caustic cleaning chemicals.

Packers Sanitation Services is based in Kieler, Wisconsin. The company describes itself as a “leading provider of food safety solutions.” According to its website, it employs 17,000 people to provide cleaning and other services to more than 700 food-processing plants.

In a statement, the company said it has an “absolute company-wide prohibition against the employment of anyone under the age of 18 and zero tolerance for any violation of that policy – period.”

The company suggested that underage workers may have misrepresented their ages to gain employment.

“PSSI has industry-leading, best-in-class procedures to confirm the identities of its employees − including mandatory use of the Government’s E-verify system for new hires, as well as extensive training, document verification, biometrics, and multiple layers of audits,” the company said.

“While rogue individuals could of course seek to engage in fraud or identity theft, we are confident in our company’s strict compliance policies and will defend ourselves vigorously against these claims.”

Blackstone Meatpacking Firm Known for Amputations and Deaths Fined $1.5 Million for Child Labor Violations

According to the Labor Department, PSSI employed at least 102 children from 13-17 years old in hazardous occupations and had them working overnight shifts at 13 meat processing facilities in eight states.

Principal Deputy Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division Jessica Looman said in a statement:

“The child labor violations, in this case, were systemic and reached across eight states, and clearly indicate a corporate-wide failure by Packers Sanitation Services at all levels.

These children should never have been employed in meat packing plants and this can only happen when employers do not take responsibility to prevent child labor violations from occurring in the first place.”

As it turns out Packers Sanitation Services, Inc. or PSSI, was acquired by Blackstone Group in May 2018.

PSSI wasn’t just an acquisition for Blackstone, it was also a partnership.

Company fined $1.5 million for exploiting more than 100 children up to 13 years old in dangerous slaughterhouse cleaning

The Department of Labor sanctions Packers Sanitation Services Inc. for employing children at night at meatpacking plants in eight states.

The Labor Department said Friday that its investigation determined that the cleaning company accused of hiring Hispanic minors in meatpacking plants had a total of 102 teenagers, as young as 13, working dangerous tasks during the night shift in slaughterhouses in eight states.

Packers Sanitation Services Inc. (PSSI), one of the nation’s largest food sanitation companies, will have to pay $1.5 million in fines for this “corporate failure.”

The company said in a statement that this sanction was agreed with the labor authorities in December, after an investigation in which they claimed to have collaborated.

“We have been very clear from the beginning: Our company has a zero-tolerance policy against the employment of anyone under the age of 18 and fully shares the Department of Labor’s goal of ensuring that it is fully enforced at all of our facilities,” he said in the statement. He added that, as soon as the allegations became known, they conducted “multiple additional audits of our employee base.”

The company was accused of employing the minors to clean sharp saws, head cutters and other high-risk equipment at 13 meatpacking plants with dangerous chemicals. These plants are operated by some of the most powerful meat processing companies in the country, including JBS Foods, Tyson and Cargill. Those companies were not charged or fined, according to a report by The Washington Post.

Blackstone/PSSI Amputation Rate 5X Higher Than Manufacturing Industry

US food sanitation company accused of employing children for graveyard shifts

PSSI stood out as a particularly dangerous workplace with one of the highest numbers of serious injury reports compared to its relatively small number of employees. PSSI’s amputation rate was actually five times the rate for all manufacturing workers.

To put this data into perspective, AT&T had around 280,000 employees in 2015 and 28 severe injuries reported; whereas PSSI had around 17,000 employees and 24 severe injuries reported. Additionally, analysts noted there could be more injuries than reported, “there is strong empirical evidence that these numbers could be an undercount.”

This is because PSSI uses a complicated system of job codes in its OSHA reporting so these injuries are significantly undercounted.

The GAO indicated in their 2016 report that OSHA did not require plants to report contractors’ injuries, and the highly fragmented sanitation industry uses multiple job codes resulting in a lack of comprehensive data on cleaners’ injuries.

Accordingly, since purchased by Blackstone, OSHA has only been able to conduct investigations of just four amputations and three fatalities of PSSI employees, including one decapitation.

Child Injuries

Blackstone/PSSI employed children who sustained injuries through the course of their illegal employment. According to the DOL report:

“Children were working with hazardous chemicals and cleaning meat processing equipment including back saws, brisket saws and head splitters. Investigators learned at least three minors suffered injuries while working for PSSI.”

 

How a Blackstone-Backed Slaughterhouse Ended Up Embroiled in a Child-Labor Scandal

(Bloomberg) — A child-labor scandal has plunged a company owned by private equity titan Blackstone Inc. into a rapidly escalating crisis — and set off alarms on Wall Street.

It began on Feb. 17, when the US Labor Department accused the company, Packers Sanitation Services Inc., of employing children as young as 13 in overnight cleaning shifts at meatpacking plants nationwide, exposing them to hazardous chemicals and dangerous equipment like back saws and head splitters. It fined the company $1.5 million.

But the toll mounted over the past two weeks. Two of Packers Sanitation’s biggest customers, Cargill Inc. and JBS USA, canceled contracts with the company, and there’s speculation that another, Tyson Foods Inc., could follow suit. Together, the three account for about 40% of the company’s revenue, according to people familiar with the matter.

The specter of a widening financial hit caused a sharp markdown in the price of a $1.2 billion loan extended to Packers Sanitation, known as PSSI.

This week, its price tumbled by 40 cents on the dollar to 51.6 cents, a level that typically indicates a company is contending with deep distress, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Messages left for Tyson spokespeople weren’t returned. After the Labor Department’s announcement, PSSI said it has a zero-tolerance policy against employing people under age 18 and has taken steps to strengthen its controls.

“We don’t want a single person under 18 working for PSSI, period — and take extensive steps to prevent individuals at the local level from circumventing our wide-ranging procedures,” the company said in a statement.

The drop reflects the mounting concern about the company that Blackstone acquired in 2018, which has occupied a niche working with some of the nation’s biggest meat and poultry producers. It also speaks to the sway of investors on Wall Street who are quick to pull back from companies that run afoul of environmental, social and good-governance standards.

The company has drawn some scrutiny for years over the dangerous nature of its work cleaning meatpacking plants in overnight shifts. In 2017, Bloomberg Businessweek reported that it had among the highest numbers of severe injuries — defined as an amputation, hospitalization, or the loss of an eye — among the 14,000 companies tracked by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in 29 states.

A Blackstone spokesperson said the company moved to improve its record after the aquisition by nearly doubling its direct safety spending, helping produce a nearly 60% reduction in recordable injury rate with OSHA.

The government’s child-labor allegations surfaced late last year, when the Labor Department said it found that PSSI violated federal law by employing minors in hazardous jobs, including cleaning dangerous power equipment. It said several, including a 13-year-old, suffered chemical burns and other injuries.

A federal judge approved an order halting the practice, and the company was later fined.

In September, Moody’s Investors Service said PSSI generated about $1.2 billion of revenue and $51 million in free cash flow in the 12 months through June, though its credit ratings were deep into junk grade due to its high debt loads.

Some of the borrowing was used to finance dividend payments to Blackstone. Since the acquisition, the company has made over $400 million in such payments, according to Moody’s.

As a services company, though, it has little collateral backing its loans, adding to the risk for investors.

On Monday, PSSI officials held a conference call with debtholders to go over financial results for the first quarter. The company, however, provided little forward-looking guidance on the company’s outlook, said people on the call.

The children had to clean heavy-duty tools like dehorners and brisket saws.

Images released by US labor department show conditions over 100 children faced at Packers Sanitation Services Incorporated

Harrowing photos released by the US labor department taken at a slaughterhouse plant in Nebraska show the conditions more than 100 children faced while illegally working for Packers Sanitation Services Incorporated (PSSI) before the department cracked down on the company for violating child labor laws.

The pictures show employees covered in protective gear, using chemicals to spray down and sanitize equipment. In some of the pictures, made public on Sunday by the television news show 60 Minutes, some of the employees appear to be young children, wearing protective face glasses and holding buckets.

In February, the labor department fined PSSI $1.5m for employing at least 102 children ages 13 to 17 across 13 meat-packing plants in eight states. The fine amounts to $15,138 for each child, the maximum penalty under federal law. The Wisconsin-based company is one of the largest food sanitation companies in the US and is contracted by meat plants to sanitize facilities. The company says it works with more than 725 partner plants.

The department started its investigation into PSSI in August 2022 after a middle school in Grand Island, Nebraska, notified police that a 14-year-old student came to school with acid burns on her hands and knees. The girl told staff that she was working night shifts at a local slaughterhouse plant. Teachers also noticed that other students were falling asleep in class after reportedly working at the plant at night.

“It seemed to be known within the community that minors either are or were working overnight shifts.

Dozens of children found working dangerous overnight jobs at meat plants

Behaviors are going to have to change and this is one thing we are asking companies, you have to force behaviors and at BlackRock, we are forcing behaviors,” Fink said.

Following is a quote from Fink’s 2022 letter to CEOs worldwide:

“Every company and every industry will be transformed by the transition to a net-zero world. The question is, will you lead, or will you be led?”

That sounds like a threat.

 

Over 100 Kids Were Illegally Employed in Dangerous Meat-Packing Plant Jobs

The Labor Department says an investigation found the company had employed at least 31 children – from 13 to 17 years of age – in hazardous occupations. The jobs performed by children included cleaning dangerous powered equipment on so-called “killing floors” during overnight shifts at JBS USA plants in Grand Island, Nebraska and Worthington, Minnesota, and at Turkey Valley Farms in Marshall, Minnesota.

Scrap meats, fats, and oils covered handrails and the floor…

The conditions noted in the filing were grim.

In the complaint, investigators stated: “Scrap meats, fats, and oils covered handrails and the floor, making surfaces slippery.”

It also stated: “The running of machines made the area extremely noisy, with steam from hot water limiting visibility.”

Oppressive child labor

In one plant the children were tasked with cleaning power-driven machines, including meat and bone-cutting saws.

Investigators say that several minors employed by PSSI, including one 13-years-old, suffered caustic chemical burns and other injuries.

One 14-year-old child interviewed during the search said that they worked from 11 p.m. until 5 a.m. or 7 a.m. cleaning machines with chemicals that gave them a burn injury.

They had been working overnight at the plant since they were 13 years old.

Another 14-year-old worker said they worked 11 p.m. until 5 a.m. five to six days a week from Dec. 2021 to April 2022 cleaning machines “used to cut meat” while attending middle school during the day.

A follow-up with the school noted that the student had been falling asleep in class and missed class due to suffering chemical burns.

The department alleges the food sanitation contractor interfered with an investigation by intimidating minor workers to stop them from cooperating with investigators.

More than 100 children—some as young as 13—were employed in hazardous jobs cleaning equipment like skull splitters, brisket saws, and bone cutters in meatpacking plants in eight states over the course of three years, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) says.

The children were employed by Packers Sanitation Services Inc., a Wisconsin-based staffing agency that fills open jobs in the food-services and agricultural industries on a contract basis. PSSI is owned by the Blackstone Group, and paid $1.5 million in penalties for the violations, DOL said, at a news conference Feb. 17. (DOL has also cited PSSI for numerous other violations, including accidents that led to amputations, in recent years.

 

Amid the ongoing fires across the Amazon rainforest, a report conducted by Friends of the Earth US, Amazon Watch and Dutch financial research firm Profundo has found BlackRock is the world’s largest investor in deforestation.

The report, entitled BlackRock’s Big Deforestation Problem, found the world’s largest investment manager’s assets in deforestation-risk commodities increased by more than $500m to $1.5bn between 2014 and 2018.

According to the report, BlackRock is among the top three shareholders in 25 of the world’s largest publicly listed “deforestation-risk” companies, almost entirely (94%) through its index fund and ETF products.

These are companies active in producing and trading soy, beef, palm oil, pulp and paper, rubber and timber.

BlackRock stakes claim on ‘sustainable investing’ revolution

BlackRock named as largest investor in deforestation

Aug 30, 2019 · WASHINGTON, D.C. – As fires rage across the Amazon, a report released today reveals that BlackRock, the world’s largest institutional investor with $6.5 trillion USD in assets, is deeply invested in the sectors most responsible for tropical forest destruction …

BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset manager, has $408 million invested, via various funds, in Brazil’s top three meatpackers operating in the Amazon.

These holdings are at odds with BlackRock’s stated position of pursuing environmentally sustainable investments, given that the meatpackers — JBS, Marfrig and Minerva — are closely associated with deforestation in the Amazon.

Experts say the sheer size of BlackRock’s stake in these companies could be decisive in forcing the meatpackers to adopt deforestation-free practices.

Wall Street fund manager BlackRock administers 2.2 billion reais ($408 million) in shares in the three largest Brazilian meatpackers operating in the Amazon today.

Vanguard vs. BlackRock: Battle for World’s Largest Investment Manager

2 Giant Investment Firms Control Almost Everything You Buy — Here’s Why You Should Care

BlackRock and Vanguard hold large interests in pivotal companies, and Vanguard holds a large share of BlackRock. BlackRock — the only private firm that has financial agreements to lend money to the central banking system — has been called the “Fourth Branch of Government.”

• BlackRock and Vanguard hold large interests in pivotal companies, and Vanguard holds a large share of BlackRock. In turn, BlackRock has been called the “Fourth Branch of Government” by Bloomberg as they are the only private firm that has financial agreements to lend money to the central banking system.
• BlackRock also developed the software used by the Fed to manage financial transactions; one Princeton University lecturer has said BlackRock controls the Federal Reserve and has more power than most governments.
• Ascertaining who owns large portions of Vanguard is more difficult as it is a private company that is not publicly traded. It’s important to think globally but act locally to protect your civil rights, including supporting state legislators who support your right to choose health care.

BlackRock and Vanguard: The Same Shady People Own Big Pharma and the Media

“The stock of the world’s largest corporations are owned by the same institutional investors. They all own each other. This means that ‘competing’ brands, like Coke and Pepsi aren’t really competitors, at all, since their stock is owned by exactly the same investment companies, investment funds, insurance companies, banks and in some cases, governments.

Who Are the Vanguard?

The word “vanguard” means “the foremost position in an army or fleet advancing into battle,” and/or “the leading position in a trend or movement.” Both are fitting descriptions of this global behemoth, owned by globalists pushing for a Great Reset, the core of which is the transfer of wealth and ownership from the hands of the many into the hands of the very few.

Interestingly, Vanguard is the largest shareholder of BlackRock, as of March 2021.3,4 Vanguard itself, on the other hand, has a “unique” corporate structure that makes its ownership more difficult to discern. It’s owned by its various funds, which in turn are owned by the shareholders. Aside from these shareholders, it has no outside investors and is not publicly traded.5 As reported in the featured video:6,7

“The elite who own Vanguard apparently do not like being in the spotlight but of course they cannot hide from who is willing to dig. Reports from Oxfam and Bloomberg say that 1% of the world, together owns more money than the other 99%. Even worse, Oxfam says that 82% of all earned money in 2017 went to this 1%.

In other words, these two investment companies, Vanguard and BlackRock hold a monopoly in all industries in the world and they, in turn are owned by the richest families in the world, some of whom are royalty and who have been very rich since before the Industrial Revolution.”

Vanguard, Blackrock, and State Street: The Puppet Masters’ Portfolios

In all, BlackRock and Vanguard have ownership in some 1,600 American firms, which in 2015 had combined revenues of $9.1 trillion. When you add in the third-largest global owner, State Street, their combined ownership encompasses nearly 90% of all S&P 500 firms

State Street Corporation is an American financial services and bank holding company headquartered at One Lincoln Street in Boston with operations worldwide.

It is the second-oldest continually operating United States bank; its predecessor, Union Bank, was founded in 1792.

State Street is ranked 15th on the list of largest banks in the United States by assets. It is one of the largest asset management companies in the world with US$3.9 trillion under management and US$43.3 trillion under custody and administration.

It is the largest custodian bank in the world, providing securities services^[3][4] and it is considered a systemically important bank by the Financial Stability Board.

Along with BlackRock and Vanguard, State Street is considered to be one of the Big Three index fund managers that dominate corporate America.

The company is ranked 316th on the Fortune 500 as of 2022. The company is on the list of the banks that are too big to fail published by the Financial Stability Board.

It is rated by Visual Capitalist as the third U.S. bank by uninsured deposits, with 91.2% of deposits being uninsured^.

The company is named after State Street in Boston, which was known as the “Great Street to the Sea” in the 18th century as Boston became a flourishing maritime capital. The company’s logo formerly included a clipper to reflect the maritime industry in Boston during this time.

 

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Behind the scenes of many of the companies that provide the products and services you use each day are two investment firms that own more shares than other shareholders. The list includes social media, transportation, news media, food manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies
• Blackrock and Vanguard hold large interests in pivotal companies, and Vanguard holds a large share of Blackrock. In turn, Blackrock has been called the “Fourth Branch of Government” by Bloomberg as they are the only private firm that has financial agreements to lend money to the central banking system
• Blackrock also developed the software used by the Fed to manage financial transactions; one Princeton University lecturer has said Blackrock controls the Federal Reserve and has more power than most governments
• Ascertaining who owns large portions of Vanguard is more difficult as it is a private company that is not publicly traded.

BlackRock says it will look to institutional dialogue to promote change in environmental and social policy.

BlackRock is ‘world’s largest investor in deforestation’, report finds.

Costly mistakes: USDA finds that JBS USA did not keep track of carcasses in plants, some feeders say it’s a chronic problem

Dec 26, 2018

USDA’s Ag Marketing Service reported last week that it had reached an agreement with JBS USA Food Company, regarding alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards Act.

The government news release said that an AMS investigation of JBS, also known as Swift Beef Company, Greeley, Colorado, revealed problems regarding payment accuracy based on carcass weights and tracking at its Grand Island, Nebraska, plant.

“AMS conducted an investigation that revealed JBS Swift failed to maintain the identity of beef carcasses purchased on a hot weight basis to ensure accurate payment to livestock sellers at its Grand Island, Neb., facility.

During the period of Dec. 14, 2017 through March 31, 2018, JBS Swift failed to record accurately the weights, grades and prices of carcasses on accountings issued to sellers,” said the news release.

Inside JBS, The World’s Largest Food Company You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

JBS is a powerhouse in meat. The Brazilian multinational is the largest global producer of beef, chicken and lamb, and number three in pork. Altogether, it’s one of the biggest food companies in the world. Judging by annual sales figures, it’s second only to Nestle.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink sees retirement as ‘silent crisis’ facing global economy

Last Updated: March 18, 2023 at 12:03 p.m. ET

Exposing BlackRock: Who’s Afraid of Laurence Fink and His Overpowering Institution?

It’s not a bank, nor an insurance company, central bank, finance ministry or sovereign wealth fund.

But it advises or owns such institutions. It operates virtually unregulated, often in the background, yet there is scarcely a company, country or region of the planet that this, the world’s largest asset management firm, does not touch or influence.

But despite its size and influence, BlackRock remains virtually unregulated as an asset management firm.

Unlike a bank, asset management firms do not manage and invest their own money, but do so on behalf of their many clients.

In the case of BlackRock, those clients come in the form of banks, corporations, insurance companies, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, central banks and foundations.

 

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink’s Family Tree Was A Mystery Until Now

October 25, 2021 / 36 Comments

It’s very likely that only a small percentage of people even know who BlackRock is, despite the fact that they are the world’s largest asset management company with over $9 trillion in assets, is one of the top two shareholders of over 1,600 American firms, was involved in the clean up of the 2008 financial meltdown, pulled off the biggest scandal in history with the Federal Reserve last year, and is changing the way banks and financial institutions monitor your money while creating a new climate scoring system as another way to control your funds. Their finger isn’t just on the pulse, it’s on the lever.

BlackRock was founded by Laurence (Larry) Fink in 1988 under the corporate umbrella of The Blackstone group, later split from Blackstone in 1994, and went public in 1999. If Larry Fink isn’t on your radar, you better start paying attention. Familiarize yourself with what BlackRock is behind, what they’ve already done to negatively impact you and our economy, and what’s coming down the pike so you can stay ahead of it. Here are a few very important reads:

Going Direct Reset Summary
Financial Takeover & Your Bank Account
Who Owns Big Pharma & Big Media?
Larry Fink’s 2021 Letter to CEOs on Net Zero Commitments

Since BlackRock’s “Going Direct” reset was voted on August 22, 2019, BlackRock stock has outperformed the U.S. stock market by double.

Stockcharts/The Solari Report

When a financial titan makes moves against citizens of an entire country, those people have a right to know who this man is, where he comes from, and what his motivations and intentions are. After all, Fink wants full transparency of us, so why shouldn’t that be a two-way street?

It’s no mystery that there are no articles in existence stating the names of Larry Fink’s parents or family members, aside from his son Joshua, with exception of one 2012 article by Forbes they must have forgotten to scrub, which includes an interview with Fink’s brother Steven. Any articles, including Wikipedia, that do mention Fink’s parents or siblings all state the exact same thing, which is an excerpt from Fink’s own writing about the lesson he learned from his parents.

“My father owned a small business – a shoe store – and my mother taught English at a local university…….I remember all the times my brother and sister and I would ask our parents whether we were saving for a bigger house or a new car.”

That is the extent of what media has been allowed to disclose about Fink’s family throughout the years, or at some point along the way were told to scrub everything. However, through an exhaustive amount of digging and cross-referencing through obituaries, old newspaper records, Ancestry, websites, and social media sites, there was enough information in open-source documents to put together a portion of Fink’s family tree. After scanning countless Fink obituaries in California, his parents names could be discovered, and the rest of the dots connected. Ancestry kept several portions of family members segregated or unlisted so people couldn’t make the connections, but thanks to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook accomplished that final task.

All photos used throughout this article are from public sources; Wikipedia, Ancestry, Facebook, and yearbooks. If they are not from public sources, they are not utilized here, and instead are linked directly to the source where the photo can be viewed.

This information is for research purposes and some family members connected to Larry Fink may not be involved in “the family business” of destroying the U.S. economy, so please be respectful. Any current identifying addresses have intentionally been left out of this report.

Some Branches of The Fink Family Tree

Other family members not shown in this diagram are revealed in the content below, though this still only represents some of the branches of their family tree. There are over 30 family members listed here, not including spouses.

Fink family on paternal side, beginning with Larry’s grandfather, Victor Fink

Israel Avigdor (Victor) Fink & Riwke Rebecca/Ruth (Litwak) Fink

Gladys (Fink) Stark & Marvin Stark
Susan (Stark) Scher & Jerry Scher
Jacqueline Scher
Jonathan Scher
Mia Scher
Richard Stark & Annarosa Tomasi
Rebecca Stark
Michael Stark
   Evelyn Lily (Fink) Gersh & Sidney Gersh
Joe Gersh & Susan (Drook) Gersh
Zachary Gersh
Dylan Gersh
Monica Love
Eileen (Gersh) Stein & Aaron Stein
Liz Stein & Gal Feinstein
Rebecca Stein & Ian Hantman
   Bernard Fink & Lillian (Heisler) Fink
Linda J (Fink) Weckstein
   Frederick Allen Fink & Lila Ruth (Raskin) Fink
Patricia Alison (Fink) Richardson & Dennis Richardson
Jessica Richardson
Catie Richardson
Laurence Douglas Fink
Joshua Aaron Fink & Filipa (Perovic) Fink
Tamara Rachel (Fink) Goldman & Darius Joseph Goldman
Daniel J. Fink & Erin Marie (McEllin) Fink
Steven Bryan Fink & Catherine Mary (Furkioti) Fink
Jeremy Benjamin Fink
Alexandra Nicole (Fink) Phoenix & Viktor Phoenix
(Plus great grandchildren mentioned in Frederick Fink’s obituary: Caleb, Eve Lilah, and Jonah, and any additions since 2013.)

General Information on Some of The Family Members

This is certainly not an exhaustive list of information on all of the family members, but rather some general information on some of them. Others have been listed in their respective sections below, but there may not be a lot of detail on them.

Laurence Douglas Fink
(cliff notes)

Born: November 2, 1952

• Father deceased 2013: Frederick Allen Fink

• Mother deceased 2012: Lila Ruth (Raskin) Fink

• Siblings: Steven and Patrica

• Wife: Lori Jean (Weider) Fink

• Children: Joshua Aaron Fink, Tamara Rachel (Fink) Goldman, Daniel Joseph Fink

• SS# issued in 1969 – California

• Grew up in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, CA

• Bachelor’s degree from UCLA and M.B.A. from UCLA Anderson School of Management

• 1974 – Married Lori Weider

• 1976 – Joined First Boston

• 1988 – Founded BlackRock

• 2008 – Endowed UCLA Anderson $10 million to establish the Fink Center for Finance and Investments

• 2016 – Received a medal from UCLA in recognition of his service to the community and his career in business and finance. UCLA Anderson Dean July Olian stated, “He is admire by the global financial community as much for his analytical brilliance as for his integrity, which are the reasons this award is most deserved.” That same year, Bill Gates gave $100k to Quinnipiac University, and two years later, Olian became president of that university. In May 2019, alumni William and Barbara Weldon gifted $15 million to the university to build “inclusive excellence,” while William chaired the board after retiring as the chair and CEO of Johnson & Johnson. In August 2021, Quinnipiac became the first university to demand all students to adhere to their strict Covid-19 testing and jab policies or lose internet access and be fined up to $2,275. They run in tight circles.

• Member of UCLA Anderson Campaign Committee, Board of Trustees for New York University, Co-chairman of NYU Langone Medical Center Board of Trustees, New York Museum of Modern Art Board Member, Council on Foreign Relations Board Member, Robin Hood Organization Board Member, Partnership for NYC Executive Committee Member

• Implemented the “Going Direct Reset” in March 2020 with the Federal Reserve, when the Fed created new reserves in the wholesale monetary circuit to effect the parallel creation of new bank money in the retail circuit, to the tune of $3.5 trillion.” The Fed appointed BlackRock to assist them in executing the $3.5 trillion plan – the plan that was devised by BlackRock in August 2019, four months before the virus was announced to have hit the U.S. When reviewing the Going Direct Reset timeline alongside the so-called pandemic, it’s a real eye-opener.

• Laurence D. and Lori Weider Fink Children’s Ambulatory Care Center at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYI Langone.

• Laurence D. and Lori Weider Fink Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Tisch Hospital.

PARENTS

1940 Population Census:

FATHER: Frederick Allen Fink

aka: Fred, Fredrick, Frederck
Born: June 18, 1925
Deceased: March 17, 2013 (obituary)
Place of Birth: Mt. Clemens, MI

• Father: Israel Avigdor (Victor) Fink

• Mother: Riwke Rebecca/Ruth (Litwak) Fink

• Siblings: Gladys, Evelyn, and Bernard. However, his obituary states that he was preceded by his sisters Gladys and Evelyn, but they chose not to mention his brother Bernard

• Children: Steven, Laurence, Patricia

• 1941 – He made the honor roll in high school and graduated mid-year in 1943

• Allegedly graduated UCLA – yearbook reflects him as being there in 1948-1949

• August 8, 1949 – married Lila Ruth Raskin

• Raised family in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, CA

• Member of the Century Club after visiting over 100 countries

• Allegedly owned a shoe store

• According to his obituary, he was a member of the “Bloody Bucket Division” during WWII with action in the battles of the Ardenne Forest and the Bulge. This battle took place between December 16, 1944 – January 25, 1945. The ‘Bulge” was known as the largest and bloodiest single battle fought by the U.S. in World War II, and the third deadliest campaign in American history.

WWII draft card was registered on June 18, 1943

Newspaper archive

The “Bloody Bucket Division” is the 28th infantry division, which is known as the “Keystone Division” with an insignia of a red keystone. It is now known as the “Iron Division.”

The patch on Fred Fink’s arm is ETO HQ:

European Theater Operations, United States Army – responsible for directing US Army operations through the European theatre of World War II from 1942 to 1945. The badge on his chest is the Combat Infantry Badge.

According to a November 1, 1944 operation order by the south bombardment squadron office of the operations officer for US Army, Frederick A. Fink was listed as a 1st Lt at that time.

Side Note: There are two Fred Fink’s that served in WWII, not to be confused with one another.

Photos compliments of Ancestry.

On March 18, 1946, he departed Le Havre, France on the USAT George Washington, arriving at the port of New York, New York on March 26th, with his last U.S. departure listed as September 25, 1944.

According to NARA records, on June 4, 1994 while residing in Santa Monica, CA, Frederick and Lila Fink received a small business loan for $21,000 under the program titled “physical disaster loans.” The project description of this type of loan reads as follows: “To provide loans to restore as nearly as possible the victims of physical type disasters to predisaster conditions.”

After searching through the UCLA yearbooks, Fred Fink can be found in both the 1948 and 1948-1949 books. It states in the yearbook that Fink and others created the first Phi Epsilon Pi chapter at UCLA, however, that fraternity doesn’t appear to be recognized as a chapter under the UCLA’s main website, nor is it mentioned here. What’s even stranger is that the 1948 book jumps from page number 383 to 385 but has five pages in between, placing their Phi Epsilon Pi page after all other fraternities, out of alphabetical order, and without a page number, as though it was added after the fact. In 1948 his name is spelled as Fredrick Fink, missing an “e.” In the 1948-1949 book, his name is spelled Fred Fink.

Photos from public yearbook. Frederick Fink is on the far right.

After going through numerous registered shoe stores in California between the 1940s – 1960s, no records could be found with Fred Fink or Lila Fink’s name on them, unless it was registered under another name. There are no other photos, articles, or documents even mentioning him after UCLA, with exception of the 1993 AP release, the 1994 NARA document, and that one staple sentence used throughout media, penned by Larry Fink himself…that “dad owned a shoe store.”

According to his obituary, he was a war veteran who shortly after returning, graduated from UCLA, met his wife and raised 3 kids, opened a shoe store, and traveled to over 100 countries.

MOTHER: Lila Ruth (Raskin) Fink

Born: April 30, 1930
Deceased: April 20, 2012 (obituary)
Place of Birth: Milwaukee, WI

• Father: Solomon Raskin (aka: Salamon, Sal, Sol)

• Mother: Margaret (Shanske) Raskin

• Sibling: Ellen Raskin, however, they chose not to mention her in Lila’s obituary
• Children: Steven, Larry, Patricia

• Her father Sal was a pharmacist at Mount Sinai Hospital in Milwaukee

• Her sister Ellen passed away in 1984. (Obituary) She was a famous writer and illustrator of children’s books, having sold over a million copies. She was married to Dennis Flanagan, editor-emeritus of Scientific America, and had previously been divorced. She had a daughter, Susan Metcalfe.

• More on Ellen here

• Lila received a Ph.D. in English Literature from USC

• Professor at Cal State Northridge

• Taught at Pepperdine and East L.A. College

• Visited over 100 countries with her husband

• Received a teaching degree in 1970, at 40-years-old, when Larry was 18-years-old, as reported in the August 26, 1970 issue of the San Fernando Valley State College Summer Sundial paper.

Public photos from Ancestry:

Photo of Lila Ruth Fink and Frederick Allen Fink on their wedding day.

Photo from University of Wisconsin-Madison – Ellen Raskin

Lila and Ellen Raskin

GRANDPARENTS

PATERNAL GRANDPA: Israel Avigdor (Victor) Fink

Born: April 12, 1892 – also documented as April 15, 1892
Deceased: May 9, 1976 (gravesite)
Place of Birth: Krynki, Poland

• Father: Israel Fink from Krynki, Poland, deceased in 1891/1892

• Mother: Dyna Cohen from Bialystok, Podlaskie, Poland, deceased June 27, 1941

• 1919 – Moved to Detroit, MI

• 1920 – Married Riwke (Rebecca/Ruth) Litwak

• 1924 – Purchased property to operate Fink’s Grocery store in Mount Clemens, MI. Fink is listed as the proprietor of a grocery store in the 1930 and 1940 federal censuses.

• The Finks sold the property on land contract in 1945.

WWII draft registration card:

PATERNAL GRANDMA: Riwke Rebecca/Ruth (Litwak) Fink

Born: July 27, 1896
Deceased: July 26, 1977
Place of Birth: Chernigov, Russia

• Father: Modukh Mottle (Max) Litwak

• Mother: Esther (Ita-Leya) Babushkin

• Siblings: Malke, Berke, Roschel, Roisse, Boruch, Feige, Arthur

PATERNAL AUNTS & UNCLES

Bernard Fink

Born: July 19, 1928
Deceased: June 10, 2001
Place of Birth: Mt. Clemens, MI

• Wives: Elisa (Goldsweig) Fink and Lillian (Heisler) Fink

• Children: Linda J Fink, mother: Lillian Heisler

• WWII draft card was registered on July 19, 1946

 

 

 

 

 

• He was on the junior tennis team in high school

• In 1948 his occupation was listed as insurance broker in Los Angeles

Much like his brother Frederick (Larry’s father), there is little to no information on Bernard Fink, not even an obituary, that could be found thus far.

Evelyn Lilly (Fink) Gersh

Born: May 14, 1921
Deceased: May 29, 2020 (obituary)

• Husband: Sidney Gersh

• Children: Joe Gersh (Sue Drook), Eileen Gersh Stein (Aaron Stein)

• Grandchildren: Liz (Gal) Feinstein, Rebecca (Ian) Hantman, Zachary Gersh, Dylan (Monica Love) Gersh

• 1943 – Married Corp. Sidney Gersh, son of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Gersh, brother to Marian Gersh.

 

 

1943 Newspaper archive

Gladys (Fink) Stark

Born: December 27, 1922
Deceased: October 13, 2020 (Obituary)
Place of Birth: Detroit, MI

• Husband: Marvin Stark

• Children: Susan Stark (Jerry Scher), Richard Stark (Annarosa Tomasi)

• Grandchildren: Jacqueline Scher, Rebecca Stark, Jonathan Scher, Michael Stark, Mia Scher

• 1943 – Married Marvin Stark who became a second lieutenant in the US Army during World War II

• They moved to Los Angeles and attended UCLA

• Gladys became a teacher

• Marvin attended dental school at UCSF, and a fellowship at Harvard

• Founding members of Congregation Beth AM in Los Altos Hills, CA

• 1967 – Marvin took a position with Project HOPE and moved the family (3 children) to Cartagena, Columbia where Marvin led their dental team and Gladys taught English at a local school

• Gladys became a foreign student advisor at Santa Clara University and an ESL teacher at Evergreen Community College

1943 Newspaper archive

SIBLINGS & COUSINS

Photo courtesy of Facebook. siblings and cousins from Left to right: Larry Fink, Linda Fink (Weckstein), Steven Fink, ???, possibly Susan Drook, Susan Stark, Richard Stark, Patricia (Fink) Richardson, Joe Gersh

SISTER: Patricia A. (Fink) Richardson

Born: August 7, 1958

• Husband: Dennis A. Richardson

• Children: Jessica Richardson and Catie Richardson

• Facebook

• Her daughter Jessica was recently employed by Federation Bio Inc., who received $50 million in funding in 2020. One long-time investor and original supporter is Venrock, which was founded by Laurance Rockefeller and his siblings in 1969 as the venture investing arm for the Rockefeller family. Emily Drabant Conley was appointed CEO of Federation BIO in 2020. She was previously vice president of business development at 23andMe.

Laurence Fink of BlackRock and Laurance Rockefeller of Venrock had much in common, and the Rockefellers are close with Fink. In fact, Fink was just in conversation with Gregory J. Fleming, President and CEO of Rockefeller Capital Management, at the Uniquely Rockefeller Special Client Event – Larry Fink, in 2021.

BROTHER: Steven Bryan Fink

Born: January 18, 1951

• Married to: Catherine Mary (Furkioti) Fink, married in 1975

• Children: Jeremy Benjamin Fink, Alexandra Nicole Fink

• Facebook

• Work history consists of: operations, financial oversight, audit committee oversight, risk oversight, governance

• BS in psychology from UCLA, JD and LLM from NYU

• 1999-2009: Director of Leapfrog, Inc.

• He is listed as an officer on Mounte LLC, a Michael Milken company founded in 2006

• 2000-2008: CEO of Lawrence Investments, LLC (owned by Larry Ellison of Oracle)

• He has served as chairman and CEO of Anthony Manufacturing, chairman and managing director of Knowledge Universe (a Milken/Ellison company), chairman of Lexecon, chairman of Pillar Data, chairman of Life Storage, chairman and CEO of Nextera Enterprises, and has served on the board of the Herb Ritz Foundation, The American College of Physicians Foundation, and Stephen S. Wise Temple

• Deputy chairman of Heron International – a British property development company founded in 1957 by the Ronson family, came to prominence in the 1980s as the UK’s second largest private company. It looks like they may have a division in Texas.

• Member of Getty Photographs Counsel

• Former National Museum of American History board member

• CEO of Malibu Ventures

• Fink joined as a director of K12 virtual charter schools (a Stride company) in October 2003 and currently serves as Chairman of the Audit Committee and is member of the compensation committee.

• Stride photo/bio here

• K12 Inc. was founded by Ron Packard, former Goldman Sachs executive, and William Bennett, former U.S. Secretary of Education, in 1999. Michael Milken invested $10 million out the gate. Larry Ellison was also an investor. They went public in 2007.

• In early 2020, after Covid hit the U.S. and virtual schooling became a thing, shares increased: Feb 3rd priced at $16, Aug $50, now trading around $30. On December 16, 2020, K12 Inc. became Stride Inc.

• One of the virtual schools is called “The Keystone School,” in NY, which utilizes the same insignia as shown above under his father’s section

• Under Stride’s latest events and presentations, they hosted a Morgan Stanley Retail Meeting on June 23, 2021

• June 28, 2021: Founded Pedregal Vineyard LLC

Forbes 2012 article on Steven Fink that they failed to scrub:

Since there is a very good chance that the Forbes 2012 article on Steven Fink will be scrubbed, and the archive may also be removed, below is a screenshot of the full article. For the record, everything in this document, all links and sources have been archived, screenshot, and backed up. This particular article is very significant, so the full screenshot is displayed below.

WIFE

Lori Jean (Weider) Fink

Born: September 7, 1954

• Father: Louis Weider, deceased June 26, 2016 (obituary)

• Mother: Bernice (Karpel) Weider

• Siblings: Deni, Daryl, Larry

• Children: Joshua, Tamara, Daniel

• Photo of Lori here

• 2009 – Named Chair of the board of directors of The Cancer Institute at NYU Langone

CHILDREN

SON: Joshua Aaron Fink

Born: February 20, 1978
Wife: Felipa (Perovic) Fink

The only family member that makes it into the spotlight, with exception of Larry Fink’s wife Lori, is his son Joshua, and that’s only because he’s in the financial business.

• Photo and bio of Joshua here at the World Economic Forum’s site

Articles and Info on Joshua Fink:

• 2011 – Wild Thing – Forbes

• 2012 – Larry Fink’s Son Has A Cringe-Worthy Track Record As A Hedge Fund Manager – Business Insider

• 2012 – A Fink-ing Mess! – CNBC

• Computehealth co-Chief Executive Officer

DAUGHTER: Tamara Rachel (Fink) Goldman

Born: February 28, 1980

• Husband: Darius Joseph Goldman, born January 4, 1978

• Facebook

SON: Daniel Joseph Fink

Born: August 15, 1983

• Wife: Erin Marie (McEllin) Fink

• Photo of Daniel here

 

clintonfoundation.org Headshot of Larry Fink.

Larry Fink’s Son Has A Cringe-Worthy Track Record As A Hedge Fund Manager

 

Joshua Fink (left) Josh Fink may be proof that investing chops can’t be genetically inherited.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink’s Family Tree Was A Mystery Until Now October 25, 2021 

It’s very likely that only a small percentage of people even know who BlackRock is, despite the fact that they are the world’s largest asset management company with over $9 trillion in assets, is one of the top two shareholders of over 1,600 American firms, was involved in the cleanup of the 2008 financial meltdown, pulled off the biggest scandal in history with the Federal Reserve last year, and is changing the way banks and financial institutions monitor your money while creating a new climate scoring system as another way to control your funds. Their finger isn’t just on the pulse, it’s on the lever.

Some Branches of The Fink Family Tree

Other family members not shown in this diagram are revealed in the content below, though this still only represents some of the branches of their family tree. There are over 30 family members listed here, not including spouses.

General Information on Some of The Family Members

This is certainly not an exhaustive list of information on all of the family members, but rather some general information on some of them. Others have been listed in their respective sections below, but there may not be a lot of detail on them.

Laurence Douglas Fink
(cliff notes)

Born: November 2, 1952

• Father deceased 2013: Frederick Allen Fink

• Mother deceased 2012: Lila Ruth (Raskin) Fink

• Siblings: Steven and Patrica

• Wife: Lori Jean (Weider) Fink

• Children: Joshua Aaron Fink, Tamara Rachel (Fink) Goldman, Daniel Joseph Fink

• SS# issued in 1969 – California

• Grew up in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, CA

• Bachelor’s degree from UCLA and M.B.A. from UCLA Anderson School of Management

• 1974 – Married Lori Weider

• 1976 – Joined First Boston

• 1988 – Founded BlackRock

• 2008 – Endowed UCLA Anderson $10 million to establish the Fink Center for Finance and Investments

• 2016 – Received a medal from UCLA in recognition of his service to the community and his career in business and finance. UCLA Anderson Dean July Olian stated, “He is admire by the global financial community as much for his analytical brilliance as for his integrity, which are the reasons this award is most deserved.”

That same year, Bill Gates gave $100k to Quinnipiac University, and two years later, Olian became president of that university. In May 2019, alumni William and Barbara Weldon gifted $15 million to the university to build “inclusive excellence,” while William chaired the board after retiring as the chair and CEO of Johnson & Johnson. In

August 2021, Quinnipiac became the first university to demand all students to adhere to their strict Covid-19 testing and jab policies or lose internet access and be fined up to $2,275. They run in tight circles.

• Member of UCLA Anderson Campaign Committee, Board of Trustees for New York University, Co-chairman of NYU Langone Medical Center Board of Trustees, New York Museum of Modern Art Board Member, Council on Foreign Relations Board Member, Robin Hood Organization Board Member, Partnership for NYC Executive Committee Member

• Implemented the “Going Direct Reset” in March 2020 with the Federal Reserve, when the Fed created new reserves in the wholesale monetary circuit to effect the parallel creation of new bank money in the retail circuit, to the tune of $3.5 trillion.” The Fed appointed BlackRock to assist them in executing the $3.5 trillion plan – the plan that was devised by BlackRock in August 2019, four months before the virus was announced to have hit the U.S. When reviewing the Going Direct Reset timeline alongside the so-called pandemic, it’s a real eye-opener.

• Laurence D. and Lori Weider Fink Children’s Ambulatory Care Center at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYI Langone.

• Laurence D. and Lori Weider Fink Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Tisch Hospital.

PARENTS

1940 Population Census:

FATHER: Frederick Allen Fink

aka: Fred, Fredrick, Frederck
Born: June 18, 1925
Deceased: March 17, 2013 (obituary)
Place of Birth: Mt. Clemens, MI

• Father: Israel Avigdor (Victor) Fink

• Mother: Riwke Rebecca/Ruth (Litwak) Fink

• Siblings: Gladys, Evelyn, and Bernard. However, his obituary states that he was preceded by his sisters Gladys and Evelyn, but they chose not to mention his brother Bernard

• Children: Steven, Laurence, Patricia

• 1941 – He made the honor roll in high school and graduated mid-year in 1943

• Allegedly graduated UCLA – yearbook reflects him as being there in 1948-1949

• August 8, 1949 – married Lila Ruth Raskin

• Raised family in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, CA

• Member of the Century Club after visiting over 100 countries

• Allegedly owned a shoe store

• According to his obituary, he was a member of the “Bloody Bucket Division” during WWII with action in the battles of the Ardenne Forest and the Bulge. This battle took place between December 16, 1944 – January 25, 1945. The ‘Bulge” was known as the largest and bloodiest single battle fought by the U.S. in World War II, and the third deadliest campaign in American history.

WWII draft card was registered on June 18, 1943

 

 

Newspaper archive

The “Bloody Bucket Division” is the 28th infantry division, which is known as the “Keystone Division” with an insignia of a red keystone. It is now known as the “Iron Division.”

The patch on Fred Fink’s arm is ETO HQ:

European Theater Operations, United States Army – responsible for directing US Army operations through the European theatre of World War II from 1942 to 1945. The badge on his chest is the Combat Infantry Badge.

According to a November 1, 1944 operation order by the south bombardment squadron office of the operations officer for US Army, Frederick A. Fink was listed as a 1st Lt at that time.

Side Note: There are two Fred Fink’s that served in WWII, not to be confused with one another.

Photos compliments of Ancestry.

On March 18, 1946, he departed Le Havre, France on the USAT George Washington, arriving at the port of New York, New York on March 26th, with his last U.S. departure listed as September 25, 1944.

According to NARA records, on June 4, 1994 while residing in Santa Monica, CA, Frederick and Lila Fink received a small business loan for $21,000 under the program titled “physical disaster loans.” The project description of this type of loan reads as follows: “To provide loans to restore as nearly as possible the victims of physical type disasters to predisaster conditions.”

After searching through the UCLA yearbooks, Fred Fink can be found in both the 1948 and 1948-1949 books. It states in the yearbook that Fink and others created the first Phi Epsilon Pi chapter at UCLA, however, that fraternity doesn’t appear to be recognized as a chapter under the UCLA’s main website, nor is it mentioned here. What’s even stranger is that the 1948 book jumps from page number 383 to 385 but has five pages in between, placing their Phi Epsilon Pi page after all other fraternities, out of alphabetical order, and without a page number, as though it was added after the fact. In 1948 his name is spelled as Fredrick Fink, missing an “e.” In the 1948-1949 book, his name is spelled Fred Fink.

Photos from public yearbook. Frederick Fink is on the far right.

After going through numerous registered shoe stores in California between the 1940s – 1960s, no records could be found with Fred Fink or Lila Fink’s name on them, unless it was registered under another name. There are no other photos, articles, or documents even mentioning him after UCLA, with exception of the 1993 AP release, the 1994 NARA document, and that one staple sentence used throughout media, penned by Larry Fink himself…that “dad owned a shoe store.”

According to his obituary, he was a war veteran who shortly after returning, graduated from UCLA, met his wife and raised 3 kids, opened a shoe store, and traveled to over 100 countries.

MOTHER: Lila Ruth (Raskin) Fink

Born: April 30, 1930
Deceased: April 20, 2012 (obituary)
Place of Birth: Milwaukee, WI

• Father: Solomon Raskin (aka: Salamon, Sal, Sol)

• Mother: Margaret (Shanske) Raskin

• Sibling: Ellen Raskin, however, they chose not to mention her in Lila’s obituary
• Children: Steven, Larry, Patricia

• Her father Sal was a pharmacist at Mount Sinai Hospital in Milwaukee

• Her sister Ellen passed away in 1984. (Obituary) She was a famous writer and illustrator of children’s books, having sold over a million copies. She was married to Dennis Flanagan, editor-emeritus of Scientific America, and had previously been divorced. She had a daughter, Susan Metcalfe.

• More on Ellen here

• Lila received a Ph.D. in English Literature from USC

• Professor at Cal State Northridge

• Taught at Pepperdine and East L.A. College

• Visited over 100 countries with her husband

• Received a teaching degree in 1970, at 40-years-old, when Larry was 18-years-old, as reported in the August 26, 1970 issue of the San Fernando Valley State College Summer Sundial paper.

Public photos from Ancestry:

Photo of Lila Ruth Fink and Frederick Allen Fink on their wedding day.

Photo from University of Wisconsin-Madison – Ellen Raskin

Lila and Ellen Raskin

GRANDPARENTS

PATERNAL GRANDPA: Israel Avigdor (Victor) Fink

Born: April 12, 1892 – also documented as April 15, 1892
Deceased: May 9, 1976 (gravesite)
Place of Birth: Krynki, Poland

• Father: Israel Fink from Krynki, Poland, deceased in 1891/1892

• Mother: Dyna Cohen from Bialystok, Podlaskie, Poland, deceased June 27, 1941

• 1919 – Moved to Detroit, MI

• 1920 – Married Riwke (Rebecca/Ruth) Litwak

• 1924 – Purchased property to operate Fink’s Grocery store in Mount Clemens, MI. Fink is listed as the proprietor of a grocery store in the 1930 and 1940 federal censuses.

• The Finks sold the property on land contract in 1945.

WWII draft registration card:

PATERNAL GRANDMA: Riwke Rebecca/Ruth (Litwak) Fink

Born: July 27, 1896
Deceased: July 26, 1977
Place of Birth: Chernigov, Russia

• Father: Modukh Mottle (Max) Litwak

• Mother: Esther (Ita-Leya) Babushkin

• Siblings: Malke, Berke, Roschel, Roisse, Boruch, Feige, Arthur

PATERNAL AUNTS & UNCLES

Bernard Fink

Born: July 19, 1928
Deceased: June 10, 2001
Place of Birth: Mt. Clemens, MI

• Wives: Elisa (Goldsweig) Fink and Lillian (Heisler) Fink

• Children: Linda J Fink, mother: Lillian Heisler

• WWII draft card was registered on July 19, 1946

• He was on the junior tennis team in high school

• In 1948 his occupation was listed as insurance broker in Los Angeles

Much like his brother Frederick (Larry’s father), there is little to no information on Bernard Fink, not even an obituary, that could be found thus far.

Evelyn Lilly (Fink) Gersh

 

 

 

 

Born: May 14, 1921
Deceased: May 29, 2020 (obituary)

• Husband: Sidney Gersh

• Children: Joe Gersh (Sue Drook), Eileen Gersh Stein (Aaron Stein)

• Grandchildren: Liz (Gal) Feinstein, Rebecca (Ian) Hantman, Zachary Gersh, Dylan (Monica Love) Gersh

• 1943 – Married Corp. Sidney Gersh, son of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Gersh, brother to Marian Gersh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1943 Newspaper archive

Gladys (Fink) Stark

Born: December 27, 1922
Deceased: October 13, 2020 (Obituary)
Place of Birth: Detroit, MI

• Husband: Marvin Stark

• Children: Susan Stark (Jerry Scher), Richard Stark (Annarosa Tomasi)

• Grandchildren: Jacqueline Scher, Rebecca Stark, Jonathan Scher, Michael Stark, Mia Scher

• 1943 – Married Marvin Stark who became a second lieutenant in the US Army during World War II

• They moved to Los Angeles and attended UCLA

• Gladys became a teacher

• Marvin attended dental school at UCSF, and a fellowship at Harvard

• Founding members of Congregation Beth AM in Los Altos Hills, CA

• 1967 – Marvin took a position with Project HOPE and moved the family (3 children) to Cartagena, Columbia where Marvin led their dental team and Gladys taught English at a local school

• Gladys became a foreign student advisor at Santa Clara University and an ESL teacher at Evergreen Community College

1943 Newspaper archive

SIBLINGS & COUSINS

Photo courtesy of Facebook. siblings and cousins from Left to right: Larry Fink, Linda Fink (Weckstein), Steven Fink, ???, possibly Susan Drook, Susan Stark, Richard Stark, Patricia (Fink) Richardson, Joe Gersh

 

SISTER: Patricia A. (Fink) Richardson

Born: August 7, 1958

• Husband: Dennis A. Richardson

• Children: Jessica Richardson and Catie Richardson

• Facebook

• Her daughter Jessica was recently employed by Federation Bio Inc., who received $50 million in funding in 2020. One long-time investor and original supporter is Venrock, which was founded by Laurance Rockefeller and his siblings in 1969 as the venture investing arm for the Rockefeller family. Emily Drabant Conley was appointed CEO of Federation BIO in 2020. She was previously vice president of business development at 23andMe.

Laurence Fink of BlackRock and Laurance Rockefeller of Venrock had much in common, and the Rockefellers are close with Fink. In fact, Fink was just in conversation with Gregory J. Fleming, President and CEO of Rockefeller Capital Management, at the Uniquely Rockefeller Special Client Event – Larry Fink, in 2021.

BROTHER: Steven Bryan Fink

Born: January 18, 1951

• Married to: Catherine Mary (Furkioti) Fink, married in 1975

• Children: Jeremy Benjamin Fink, Alexandra Nicole Fink

• Facebook

• Work history consists of: operations, financial oversight, audit committee oversight, risk oversight, governance

• BS in psychology from UCLA, JD and LLM from NYU

• 1999-2009: Director of Leapfrog, Inc.

• He is listed as an officer on Mounte LLC, a Michael Milken company founded in 2006

• 2000-2008: CEO of Lawrence Investments, LLC (owned by Larry Ellison of Oracle)

• He has served as chairman and CEO of Anthony Manufacturing, chairman and managing director of Knowledge Universe (a Milken/Ellison company), chairman of Lexecon, chairman of Pillar Data, chairman of Life Storage, chairman and CEO of Nextera Enterprises, and has served on the board of the Herb Ritz Foundation, The American College of Physicians Foundation, and Stephen S. Wise Temple

• Deputy chairman of Heron International – a British property development company founded in 1957 by the Ronson family, came to prominence in the 1980s as the UK’s second largest private company. It looks like they may have a division in Texas.

• Member of Getty Photographs Counsel

• Former National Museum of American History board member

• CEO of Malibu Ventures

• Fink joined as a director of K12 virtual charter schools (a Stride company) in October 2003 and currently serves as Chairman of the Audit Committee and is member of the compensation committee.

• Stride photo/bio here

• K12 Inc. was founded by Ron Packard, former Goldman Sachs executive, and William Bennett, former U.S. Secretary of Education, in 1999. Michael Milken invested $10 million out the gate. Larry Ellison was also an investor. They went public in 2007.

• In early 2020, after Covid hit the U.S. and virtual schooling became a thing, shares increased: Feb 3rd priced at $16, Aug $50, now trading around $30. On December 16, 2020, K12 Inc. became Stride Inc.

• One of the virtual schools is called “The Keystone School,” in NY, which utilizes the same insignia as shown above under his father’s section

• Under Stride’s latest events and presentations, they hosted a Morgan Stanley Retail Meeting on June 23, 2021

• June 28, 2021: Founded Pedregal Vineyard LLC

Source: BlackRock CEO Larry Fink’s Family Tree Was A Mystery Until Now – coreysdigs.com

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink’s Family Tree Was A Mystery Until Now – The Washington Standard

Forbes 2012 article on Steven Fink that they failed to scrub:

Since there is a very good chance that the Forbes 2012 article on Steven Fink will be scrubbed, and the archive may also be removed, below is a screenshot of the full article. For the record, everything in this document, all links and sources have been archived, screenshot, and backedup.

This particular article is very significant, so the full screenshot is displayed below.

WIFE

Lori Jean (Weider) Fink

Born: September 7, 1954

• Father: Louis Weider, deceased June 26, 2016 (obituary)

• Mother: Bernice (Karpel) Weider

• Siblings: Deni, Daryl, Larry

• Children: Joshua, Tamara, Daniel

• Photo of Lori here

• 2009 – Named Chair of the board of directors of The Cancer Institute at NYU Langone

CHILDREN

SON: Joshua Aaron Fink

Born: February 20, 1978
Wife: Felipa (Perovic) Fink

The only family member that makes it into the spotlight, with exception of Larry Fink’s wife Lori, is his son Joshua, and that’s only because he’s in the financial business.

• Photo and bio of Joshua here at the World Economic Forum’s site

Articles and Info on Joshua Fink:

• 2011 – Wild Thing – Forbes

• 2012 – Larry Fink’s Son Has A Cringe-Worthy Track Record As A Hedge Fund Manager – Business Insider

• 2012 – A Fink-ing Mess! – CNBC

• Computehealth co-Chief Executive Officer

DAUGHTER: Tamara Rachel (Fink) Goldman

 

 

 

Born: February 28, 1980

• Husband: Darius Joseph Goldman, born January 4, 1978

• Facebook

SON: Daniel Joseph Fink

Born: August 15, 1983

• Wife: Erin Marie (McEllin) Fink

• Photo of Daniel here

 

 

 

 

 

BlackRock is one of the top institutional holders of Norfolk Southern Corporation, which is one of the nation’s premier transportation companies.

Its Norfolk Southern Railway subsidiary operates 19,500 route miles in 22 states and the District of Columbia, serves every major container port in the eastern United States, and provides efficient connections to other rail carriers

As of March 30, 2023, BlackRock Inc. held 6.76% of Norfolk Southern Corporation’s shares.

For-Profit Railroads Caused The Disaster In East Palestine

A blinding spotlight has been shone on Norfolk Southern, the billion-dollar Class I railroad whose decades of cost-cutting created one of the worst chemical disasters in U.S. history last month

Larry Fink CEO of BlackRock

As the chief executive of BlackRock, Fink oversees one of the world’s largest fossil fuel investment portfolios, with $87bn behind the industry.

And though Fink has made sweeping climate promises and even wrote an op-ed about achieving a “net-zero” world, his company has profited off deforestation – a major cause of rising emissions – more than any other company globally.

Fink has also pushed BlackRock to vote against pro-climate action shareholder resolutions – all while angling for money from the federal government that should go to climate projects.

In his own words: “Without global action, every nation will bear enormous costs from a warming planet, including damage from more frequent natural disasters and supply-chain failures.”

 

 

 

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