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In a letter to the SEC, the AFL-CIO said the private equity firm, one of the first in the U.S. to go public, “deliberately structured its public offering to hide the fact that the Blackstone Group is actually an offering of interests in pools of investment securities.”
Blackstone’s prospectus says it is a partnership, and thus exempt from requirements of investment companies, such as a fiduciary duty to stockholders or having a 75% of independent directors on its board.