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Kravis Shared DNA With Roberts Makes Billionaire LBO Men Unique

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By Jason Kelly

September 27, 2012 at 4:00 AM UTC

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Ten thousand bucks.

Henry Kravis and his cousin George Roberts each scribbled out a check in that amount, smaller companions to the $100,000 draft their more established colleague, former boss and partner Jerome Kohlberg, had written.