Steve Feinberg, Master of Cerberus, Gets New Mission for Trump (2)

It was just after dawn when a Marine freelancing for Blackwater, the private security contractor that became a notorious symbol of the US war in Iraq, set out across the company’s training base in the Great Dismal Swamp in North Carolina.

In tow was Steve Feinberg, the billionaire financier—and today, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to become second-in-command at the Pentagon. Feinberg, co-founder of Cerberus Capital Management LP and an avid big-game hunter, had flown in for a private marksmanship lesson with Staff Sergeant Steve Reichert, an Iraq veteran credited with one of the longest kill shots on ...