DA, a faithful reader, cites an anonymous, highly placed Blackstone source, to point out that though Blackstone only has around 4.5% of Deutsche Telekom, they have been given a proxy for something like 33% of the DT, basically the German government's entire voting stake. If true, this would be quite interesting. A bearish reader then writes in to point out that Dr. Ron Sommer, the former CEO of DT is on a number of Blackstone advisory boards. The plot thickens.