David Steiner (AIPAC)

[2][3] Steiner was born to a Jewish family[4] and graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in civil engineering.

Originally focused on industrial real estate, he re-directed its investments to commercial office parks and retail properties.

[5] He resigned his AIPAC Presidency in November 1992 after Haim Katz, a New York real estate developer, secretly recorded a telephone conversation with him and released it to The Washington Times.

[8] Steiner told Katz he had significant influence over American foreign policy and the selection of US political leaders.

I know him on a personal basis.... One of my friends is Hillary Clinton's scheduler, one of my officer's daughters works there.

I have Michael Mandelbaum and Martin Indyk being foreign policy advisers... Steve Spiegel.... We have Bill Clinton's ear.

"In an effort to encourage and impress what I thought was a potential political activist calling on the telephone," Steiner said, "I made statements which went beyond over-zealousness and exaggeration and were simply and totally untrue.

Steiner supported a number of Jewish causes including the United Jewish Communities of MetroWest NJ, the Rachel Coalition, and the National Yiddish Book Center where he funded the Steiner Summer Internship Program.