Read Between The Lines

- Larry A. Silverstein is an American billionaire real estate investor and operator and the head of Silverstein Properties, a real estate development group. He was the leaseholder of the World Trade Center property at the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks and currently oversees its reconstruction. Silverstein is also a member of New York University's Board of Trustees.

- Silverstein signed a 99-year lease taking control of the Trade Center in July 2001, 6 weeks before the attacks that killed many people and toppled 10 million square feet of commercial space in the twin towers and five other buildings.

- Silverstein has received a lot of attention since 9/11, and his involvement has been well-documented. Four members of his staff were killed in the attacks, but he himself was saved only because a meeting he had scheduled that morning with officials of the Port Authority on the 88th floor of was canceled at the last minute.

- Silverstein told his friends for the next few years, he will be busy rehabilitating the site. To advance his project, Silverstein needs the support of politicians. He has paid three visits to Washington since September 11. As the largest private donor to Hillary Clinton, he has an open door to the office of the junior senator from New York. Other senators who received hefty donations from Silverstein have said that they are in favor of the project at Ground Zero.

- Silverstein is a member of the joint American-Israeli commission for housing and community development, which was established by former president Bill Clinton.

- Back to 1993, Silverstein became entangled in a lawsuit. Harry Miller, a Vietnam War veteran, sued Silverstein, who owned the Runway 69 dance club in Queens, for his alleged involvement in the trafficking of heroin. Also on the list of defendants were Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, Ross Perot and Colin Powell, who were alleged to have perpetrated acts including serial murder for 25 years, since the war in Vietnam, as part of a conspiracy to distribute heroin.

- Eliot Laurence Spitzer is an American lawyer and former politician of the Democratic Party. He served as Governor of New York from January 2007 until his resignation on March 17, 2008 in the wake of his involvement in a high-priced prostitution ring. Prior to being elected governor, Spitzer served as New York State Attorney General.

- On the 6th anniversary of the 9/11 attack, the New York Megaphone breaks the exclusive story, that NY Governor Eliot Spitzer filed an amicus brief on 1/15/03 on behalf of the World Trade Center's controversial lease-holder. This document shows that Spitzer, as Attorney General, helped Silverstein get the whopping $4.5 billion windfall for the 9/11 attacks. The record is clear, Spitzer helped reverse a lower court's decision, by making credible Silverstein's argument that the two different plane crashes on 9/11/01 should be compensated as two different terrorist attacks.

- Last fall, Eliot Spitzer was swept into the governor’s mansion with 70 
per cent of the vote. His public reputation was that of a heroic fighter of 
white collar crime. Earlier he bragged about being very close 
to Hillary Clinton. He hinted he wouldn’t refuse an invitation to run 
for vice president, if his friend Hillary got the nomination.

- On September 21, 2007, Spitzer issued an executive order directing that state offices allow illegal immigrants to be issued driver's licenses effective December 2007. Applicants for driver's licenses would not be required to prove legal immigration status and would be allowed to present a foreign passport as identification. After meeting with the Department of Homeland Security in October 2007, Spitzer altered the plan so that licenses issued to illegal aliens would look different from other licenses and that the new licenses would not allow access to airplanes and federal buildings.


References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Silverstein

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Spitzer

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