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Obama pays off for Goldsmith

Candice Krieger

BY Candice Krieger

January 22, 2009 12:23
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Tory candidate and millionaire environmentalist Zac Goldsmith has reportedly won around £100,000 from a series of long-term bets that Barack Obama would become American President. Apparently, in autumn 2007, he put £5,000 at 20/1 when Obama was very much an outsider.

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