Background
George Lindemann was born to a Jewish family in 1936 in New York City.
Businessman chairman president
George Lindemann was born to a Jewish family in 1936 in New York City.
He received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
He also owns 19 Spanish-language radio stations. From 1962 to 1972, he served as the President of Smith, Miller and Patch, a pharmaceutical company. He sold Permalens, his family company, to Cooper Labs for $75 million in 1971, and founded Vision Cable in 1972.
Shortly after, he founded a cell phone company called Metro Mobile and later sold it to Bell Atlantic for $2.5 billion in 1991.
He was then the Chief Executive Officer of Southern Union, a pipeline company, which was sold in 2012 to Energy Transfer Equity, LP for approximately $2.0 billion. He also owns 19 Spanish-speaking radio stations.
He has made donations to Republican candidates, such as Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Editor Royce, Denny Rehberg, and Virginia Foxx. He is a supporter of the Center for Jewish History.
