U.S. private equity firm Arclight Capital Partners LLC, which invests the retirement savings of Maine teachers, NFL football players and Mayo Clinic doctors, lost hundreds of millions of dollars betting on a troubled Caribbean oil refinery, according to sources and documents reviewed by Reuters.
PSERS says eight staffers have hired fund-paid lawyers to represent them as the FBI investigates the plan. PSERS will pay up to $40 million in legal bills in any one year for staffers.