Word: safra
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Street Creds: Former Goldman, Sachs & Co. Co-Chairman; helped to found the National Economic Council; member of boards of Mount Sinai-NYU Health, the Edmond Safra Foundation, Ford Motor Company and Rockefeller Family Trust; member of United States Council on Foreign Relations...
...Safra will be remembered as a man whose achievements as a banker are recognized throughout the world, and whose commitment to education was equally great," President Neil L. Rudenstine said in the press release. "It is fitting that HSBC Bank USA has chosen to recognize...
Born in Beirut in 1932, Safra joined his family's banking business as a young man. Eventually, Safra founded the Republic Bank of New York in 1966, which merged with HSBC Bank USA after Safra's death...
...Safra died on Dec. 3 in an incident of arson at his Monaco luxury apartment. Police have charged Ted Maher, an American who had been recruited five months before to help care for Safra, with setting the fire...
Maher was questioned three times as a witness before admitting he set the fire. He originally told police he was stabbed by two hooded assailants who had broken into Safra's apartment...