LOS ANGELES, California — California is often referred to as an ATM of politics for the frequency with which candidates of both parties jet in to scoop up campaign cash from well-heeled donors. In the case of Nicole Shanahan, the running mate to independent presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the candidate is also effectively the bank.
Kennedy turned to Shanahan to fund his bid against President Joe Biden and the Republican nominee-in-waiting, former President Donald Trump. Shanahan, 38, is a Bay Area attorney and entrepreneur who has never held public office. But more to the point, she’s the former wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, and her divorce settlement made her fabulously wealthy.
Kennedy, son and namesake of the late attorney general and New York Democratic Sen. Robert
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