Word: manhattanization
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...Manhattan office, with its sweeping views of Central Park, is a scandal of its own. After lowballing estimates for rent of the entire 56th floor (it's now about $800,000 per year), he presented himself, surprise, as a victim--this time of local real estate prices. He promised that his foundation would pick up $300,000, but any charity that profligate would itself be scandalous. Word is that the government is encouraging Clinton to move to a cheaper suite on a lower floor...
...raised money for the Clintons, Dozoretz, who was finance chair of the Demo- cratic National Committee in 1999, is more active and, sources say, introduced Rich to the library effort. They were among 15 donors invited to one of the first library fund raisers, a 1999 meeting in a Manhattan hotel attended by the former President...
President Clinton's pardon of fugitive billionaire Marc Rich ignited the firestorm - but inside the Justice Department, career prosecutors are also burning over the clemency grant for Manhattan lawyer Harvey Weinig, sentenced in 1996 to 11 years in prison for facilitating an extortion-kidnapping scheme and helping launder at least $19 million for the Cali cocaine cartel. In Weinig's case, Clinton didn't bypass the Department of Justice - he defied...
...Here in New York City, however, the case getting the most attention is that of Sean "Puffy" Combs. The hip-hop mogul/fashion designer is on trial for his alleged role in a shooting in a Manhattan nightclub in December of 1999 in which three people were hurt. He's been charged with weapons possession and bribery and, if convicted on all counts, could spend up to 15 years in prison. Combs has other worries as well - this week he announced (through his publicist) that he and his girlfriend, Jennifer Lopez, had split. Since the announcement that he had broken...
...conference had "clearly been a mistake." The parent of the investment firm Paine Webber has canceled negotiations with the former president for a speech, fearing the controversy that would result from his appearance. The New York Observer newspaper ran a long article about how Clinton's society friends in Manhattan are having second thoughts about socializing with the former president. And finally, Bill Clinton spoke out yesterday about how he is being unfairly persecuted, about how "there's not a single, solitary shred of evidence that I did anything wrong." Sound familiar? And what was his outlet? The Geraldo Rivera...