He lived in that vipers den his whole life. I doubt there’s been a building of prominence that was built in NYC in the last 200 years that didn’t have to go through the political meat grinder of extortion and kickbacks, err... I mean donations. Everyone has to play the game, but at his level you become a target for blackmail, entrapment, etc. The powers that be will use any tool imaginable to try to get people of provenance under their control.
He lived in that vipers den his whole life. I doubt there’s been a building of prominence that was built in NYC in the last 200 years that didn’t have to go through the political meat grinder of extortion and kickbacks, err... I mean donations. Everyone has to play the game, but at his level you become a target for blackmail, entrapment, etc. The powers that be will use any tool imaginable to try to get people of provenance under their control.