Not long after he bought the Mets for $2.4 billion, the hedge-fund baron Steven A. Cohen had a deal in mind that was several times more lucrative. He wanted to build a massive casino and resort next door to the Mets' home in Queens, Citi Field. If it worked, it would be one of the city's largest real-estate development projects in decades.
I've been very pro-Israel and I've been very defensive of their right to defend themself. But I have absolutely no skin whatsoever in defending any lobbyist group, including AIPAC, so I would love to know what they do to get the loyalty of politicians. Because I will say, I have had multiple, multiple reach-outs to me, both from friends and from connected people in D.C., begging me to go to Israel with them, and I have said no every time, Kelly told Greene.
The Australians are pretty wound up about the idea of you seeing the Aborigines at all, Sawers wrote in a note to Blair. Their high commissioner rang me to press you not to see them: they were troublemakers.