353: John Childs

Childs owns J.W. Childs Associates, a private equity firm based in Massachusetts. A Republican, he’s a big donor to Republican candidates and lobbying organizations such as Club for Growth. So far this year, he’s given a little over $3.5 million to Republicans.
He was one of several influential, rich men who patronized a sex trafficking ring that imprisoned immigrant women, forcing them to live at massage parlors where they were forced to have unprotected sex with thousands of men, their compliance extorted with threats against their family back in their home country.
