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FIRST ON FOX: The largest individual donor to Jay Jones’ flailing attorney general campaign in Virginia is a billionaire heiress who has backed a variety of left-wing candidates and causes along with a recent massive donation backing socialist NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.
Elizabeth "Liz" Simons, the daughter of the late billionaire hedge fund manager James "Jim" Simons, donated a total of $750,000 to Jones’ campaign over the past few months in four separate payments, campaign finance records show .
The elder Simons founded the successful hedge fund Renaissance Technologies and built up a personal fortune worth $31.4 billion over the course of his lifetime while donating billions of that money to charity.
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