They lead corporate giants, manage billions, their names are among the best known on Wall Street and in the financial circles that matter, in New York and in the United States. According to the Washington Post, they pressured the mayor of the Big Apple, Eric Adams, to send the police to disperse the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University. […]
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They lead corporate giants, they handle billions, their names are among the best known in Wall Street and in the financial circles that matter, a New York and in the United States. According to Washington Post they put pressure on the mayor of the Big Apple, Eric Adamsto send the police to disperse the protests pro-Palestinian at Columbia University.
It’s April 26, reconstructs the US newspaper, which bases the article on the chronology of a chat that took place on Zoom. A group of supermanagers including the founder of the Kind snack company Daniel Lubetzkythe financial manager Daniel Loebthe billionaire Len Blavatnik and the real estate investor Joseph Sitt I’m on a video call with Adams: just a week has passed after the mayor had sent the men of the for the first time New York Police Department to the campus of the prestigious university. There is discussion of the possibility of making campaign donations to the mayor and of intervening with the president of Columbia to allow Adams to once again send police to the university to manage the protests.
The messages describing the video call were recorded in a WhatsApp chat, started a few days after the October 7 attack by a member of the billionaire and real estate tycoon’s staff Barry Sternlichtwhich features some of the nation’s most prominent business and financial leaders, including the former CEO of Starbucks Howard Schultzthe founder of Dell Michael Dellthe hedge fund manager Bill Ackman And Joshua Kushnerfounder of Thrive Capital and brother of Jared Kushnerson-in-law of Donald Trump.
Titled “Israel Current Events,” the chat has around 100 members, over a dozen of whom appear on Israel’s annual list of billionaires. Forbes. One of the members of this chat revealed to the Post of having made a donation to the mayor from $2,100, the maximum allowed by law, during that month. Other members offered to pay private security companies to assist the officers, the chat log shows – an offer that Adams reportedly accepted, but which was denied to the newspaper by the city administration.
