En snubbe på LC forumet kikade lite närmare på Silverstein properties:

Well, I thought it would be interesting to have a look at Silverstein Properties.

So I wandered over to their website and had a look at their board of directors / senior management, and what I found rather surprised me.

Here is what I was expecting

Directors intimately connected with big corporates
People who were connected with senior levels of banking / securities
People from the government and most of all
People from Intel

Well, I didnt find that at all. In fact, what I found seemed a totally vanilla-flavoured family based commercial property company. The other directors and managers were construction engineers and lawyers; they had been there for many years, which in firms like these is a good sign because it means loyalty and respect between owner/founder and people from outside the family.

I would have expected the Silversteins to have been involved on the boards of Jewish things and they were - on the boards of a couple of major Jewish hospitals.

Now this whole thing REALLY surprised me - my gut feel was that there WAS something stinky around the real estate and finance angle, but on simple inspection Silverstein Properties doesnt fit the profile AT ALL..... sorry, just not SPOOKY enough.

So I thought, follow Sibel Edmonds advice , and start following the money.

It turns out that Larry's primary source of funds for WTC 7 was from The Blackstone Group. These people are the bank that hold Larry's mortgage. They have him by the balls just as much as any bank has a property owner by the balls. THIS is more interesting, I start to think....

Soooo WHO are the Blackstone Group (my Bolding)

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About The Blackstone Group L.P.
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The Blackstone Group, a private investment bank with offices in New York and London, was founded in 1985 by its Chairman, Peter G. Peterson, and its President and CEO, Stephen A. Schwarzman. Blackstone’s Real Estate Group has raised three funds representing approximately $3 billion in total equity.

The group has made around 100 separate investments in hotels and other commercial properties with a total transaction value of about $11 billion. In addition to real estate, The Blackstone Group’s core businesses include Mergers and Acquisitions Advisory, Restructuring and Reorganization Advisory, Private Equity Investing, Private Mezzanine Investing, and Liquid Alternative Asset Investing.

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About the Chairman Peter G. Peterson
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Mr. Peterson is senior chairman and co-founder of The Blackstone Group, a private investment banking firm. He is founding president of The Concord Coalition, a bipartisan citizens group dedicated to fiscal responsibility,

chairman of the Institute for International Economics, and

former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

In government, he served as {b]assistant to the president for International Economic Affairs, secretary of commerce, and headed several commissions concerned with U.S. productivity and U.S.-Soviet economic relations.[/b]

He has had extensive experience in the private sector, including as

chairman and chief executive officer of Lehman Brothers and its successor company from 1973 to 1984
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chief executive officer of Bell and Howell from 1963 to 1971.

He is the author of several books, including Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It and Gray Dawn: How the Coming Age Wave Will Transform America – and the World. He is based in New York, NY.

More importantly than ANY of this is that he is on the BOARD of DIRECTORS of
THE COUNCIL of FOREIGN RELATIONS

WOOT!

Now what about the other Blackstone Group co-founder
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CEO Stephen A. Schwarzman
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(Hold on to your chair for this!!! :crylol: )
studied at Yale with... President George W. Bush

founded ballet society to meet girls (!!)

Harvard M.B.A.,
managing director at Lehman 1978 at age 31.

Cofounded buyout firm Blackstone Group 1985 with $400,000, with partner Peter G. Peterson.

Today 4 buyout funds own 87 companies with $110 billion enterprise value.

Led bankruptcy restructurings of Enron and Global Crossing.

Splits time between $30 million(!) Manhattan duplex, estates in the Hamptons, Palm Beach.

The only other reference to Blackstone on this forum was from Ty Rauber from the brilliant WKJO

The World Trade Center was insured by 3 companies- AIG, Marsh and ACE - All operated, at the time, by Maurice, Jeffrey and Evan Greenberg respectively. Maurice Greenberg, ex-head of the CFR and ex-head of the New York Federal Reserve, was at the time head of AIG.

The WTC mortgage was done through the Blackstone Group, which is run by Peter J. Peterson, current head of the CFR. Kissinger is on the board.

In 1993, AIG and Blackstone Group bought into Kroll Associates; which then assumed control of World Trade Center Security up through 9-11. Kroll was responsible for the reorganization of Enron, and the Chairman of Kroll Zolfo Cooper LLC, Stephen Cooper, is Enron’s acting CEO.

It was through Kroll, and specifically Jerome Hauer, that O'Neill got the job as head of security at the World Trade Center. As head of OEM in NYC, it was Hauer that built out the federal bunker in WTC7.

On September 11th, Hauer was Giuliani's right hand man and the sole person to identify John O'Neill's body. Hauer also advised the White House to go on Cipro on September 11th. Ironically, Hauer had previously worked with the prime anthrax suspect Stephen Hatfill at the SAIC, under John Deutch (ex-DCI of the CIA, currently serves on the Board of Directors of Citigroup, Cummins, Raytheon and Schlumberger.)

New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer investigated Marsh and AIG. As a result, AIG and Marsh jettison the father and son Greenberg team. On July 8th, 2004, AIG sold Kroll to Marsh, and Michael Cherkasky, Kroll CEO, took over as President and CEO of Marsh.

Cherkasky, Giuliani, Spitzer and Fitzgerald all worked together in the New York District Attorney's office in the Southern District of Manhattan. [It was Cherkasky that brought Spitzer into the NYC DA's office. Cherkasky is Spitzer’s long time political fundraiser and favorite donor.]

What cases did the NYC DA's office prosecute? The BCCI. Noriega. Gotti. All cases involving the illicit drug trade, and the CIA.

Seraphim. Du blir bara bättre och bättre på att snoka fram de bästa grejerna.

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