Trump's new communications director has a long history on Wall Street and a love-hate relationship with the press

Anthony Scaramucci, who has been appointed to head the White House's communications operations, has a long history on Wall Street – and has been a big Trump backer and public advocate.

after telling President Donald Trump that he strongly disagreed with the selection of Scaramucci

Scaramucci is a household name on Wall Street, but relatively unknown elsewhere. Here's a primer.

He was hired, fired and then rehired at Goldman Sachs

Scaramucci worked at Goldman Sachs for some time after graduating from Harvard Law School. He was even fired before being rehired in a sales role, he recounted to reporters several years ago.

He later founded SkyBridge Capital, which invests rich people's money in hedge funds

Scaramucci later ran SkyBridge Capital, a fund of hedge funds firm. It basically invests wealthy people's money into hedge funds, private investment vehicles that make bets on the markets.

Scaramucci had heralded SkyBridge as a way for America's dentists and doctors – who might not have enough money to access hedge funds directly

Reuters reported earlier this year.

Still, the firm grew to billions in assets, much of that from relationships with Wall Street banks which directed their rich clients' money into the fund.

He has a love-hate relationship with the press

Scaramucci loves media attention and courts it like a pro (including from Business Insider). Sometimes, it is to promote books, like one he wrote on entrepreneurship called "Hopping over the Rabbit Hole." He also hosts a TV show called Wall Street Week on Fox Business.

But he was also accused of threatening a columnist after he wrote something Scaramucci didn't like. Felix Salmon, a financial columnist, wrote for Reuters about his experience.

Here's Salmon back in 2011:

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Scaramucci became the face of the hedge fund industry's biggest Las Vegas confab

Scaramucci also ran SALT, one of the hedge fund industry's flashiest conferences.

Held annually at Las Vegas's ritzy Bellagio, it's a gathering of hedge fund managers, marketers and all sorts of sales people convened to hobnob, listen to hedge fund managers that SkyBridge invests in and party. The Killers even performed one year.

He has been one of Trump's biggest proponents on Wall Street

Scaramucci has been one of Trump's biggest backers on Wall Street, and is not shy about it. He has touted the president at hedge fund events, on Twitter and on broadcast TV.

The day after Trump was elected in November, he told journalist Michelle Celarier that people need to take Trump at his word in an interview in New York magazine.

Scaramucci wanted Trump to kill a law that could hurt his fund business — but it was enacted anyway

the rule would hurt investors

The Wall Streeters opposing the rule had a lot at stake, particularly Scaramucci's SkyBridge and he wanted Trump to repeal it. The rule recently went into effect anyway earlier this year.

Two senators said they would investigate Scaramucci after he met with a sanctioned Russian fund

Two senators earlier this year said that they would push for an investigation into whether Scaramucci violated sanctions with Russia. That's after it came out that Scaramucci talked about potential joint investments with a sanctioned Russian fund, Bloomberg News reported.

As Bloomberg reported in January: Scaramucci's

Scaramucci sold SkyBridge earlier this year to a Chinese company so he could work for Trump, but conflicts in that sale prevented him from taking on a job

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Trump's new communications director has a long history on Wall Street and a love-hate relationship with the press

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