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Trump Card: The Rise of 40 Wall Street and its Steward, Donald Trump Jr.

“For us, we had to do something different,” said Donald Trump Jr. last week, his voice rising with excitement.

Freshly tanned from a recent visit to Mexico, where he was overseeing a new project, the slicked-back scion grew steadily more enthusiastic as he discussed 40 Wall Street, an office tower that, with its rising and falling tenant roster, has contributed to the Trump Organization executive vice president’s growing reputation as a competent steward of the family name, a reliable fixer and successful dealmaker in his own right. Read More

Corzine Touring Office Space at 40 Wall

Fresh off the highly publicized collapse of securities firm MF Global Holdings Ltd., former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine is allegedly sniffing around for new office space at 40 Wall Street, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Mr. Corzine has set his sights on sharing space with John Carris Investments, a full service investment banking firm whose corporate headquarters are located inside the Trump Organization-owned office tower, The Wall Street Journal reports.

A spokesman for John Carris did not respond to a request for comment.
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Morning Read: Cuomo Crafts a Labor Deal, Clinton Goes Off Message

2012: Corzine, Orin Kramer raising for Obama. [Page Six]

1964: Bill Clinton visited Times Square, saw "a hooker approach a man in a gray flannel suit." [Politico]

The Lede: "You can't find a hooker in Times Square anymore, former President Bill Clinton lamented Wednesday." [Adam Lisberg]

John Cook: He can't wait Read More

Wall Street 2: The Return of Corzine

Goldman Sachs bankers like trekking into the wilderness of public service, but once they go, they don’t come home. An executive who becomes a senator, an intelligence adviser, a deputy secretary of state, a White House chief of staff or a Treasury secretary hardly ever returns to Wall Street. And the second act in finance, Read More

AG Candidate (Not Cuomo!) Hires for Campaign

Kathleen Rice, the Nassau County district attorney who is running for State AG, announced she's hired a few key campaign aides (doesn't seem like they're putting much stock in the Cuomo campaign talk of a re-election campaign).New hires:Shams Tarek, spokesman. He most recently worked for the NYS Senate Democrats (and, full disclosure, is a Read More

Corzine Thinks Goldman Should ‘Speak a Little Less’

With Goldman Sachs mired in a months-long p.r. spiral--so bad that its outspoken spokesperson took to the Huffington Post to state the company's case--one former C.E.O., who happens to know a bit about bad press, has a suggestion.
"The best thing to do is kind of what the p.r. consultants said, speak a Read More

Battle of the Holland Tunnel

It was Oct. 13, and inside the wood-paneled lobby of the Newport Office Center, which rises like a glass punctuation mark from the Jersey City shore of the Hudson River, Governor Jon Corzine was gleefully announcing a huge score in the Garden State's long-simmering battle with Manhattan for office tenants.
The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation Read More

How Bill Owens Spoiled a Republican Narrative

So there we were somewhere around 10 o'clock on Election Night, watching as county after county reported devastating news for Jon Corzine.

New Jersey's governor—for whom Barack Obama made two splashy campaign appearances in the home stretch—was going down, the first Democrat to lose a statewide race there in 12 years, and only the second Read More

How Bill Owens Spoiled a Republican Narrative

So there we were somewhere around 10 o'clock on Election Night, watching as county after county reported devastating news for Jon Corzine.

New Jersey's governor—for whom Barack Obama made two splashy campaign appearances in the home stretch—was going down, the first Democrat to lose a statewide race there in 12 years, and only the second Read More

Bloomberg on Corzine: ‘No Strain in Our Relationship’

David Chen is up with a story saying the relationship between Jon Corzine and Michael Bloomberg – Wall Street guys who entered politics at the same time - has become strained.
“I was at a dinner party with him, maybe, two months ago,” Bloomberg told reporters at Union Square this afternoon, when asked about Corzine. Read More

In New Jersey, Papers Bleed but Survive

One year ago, the Newhouses were threatening to close down their treasured jewel, The Star-Ledger, unless the paper’s union made a series of concessions, which included cutting the newsroom by 40 percent.

They got what they wanted, and it seemed like things could go back to normal, albeit with fewer deckhands on the ship.
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The Biggest Shrug

For years, the World Trade Center occupied a prominent stage in New York politics, as elected officials jostled over questions of design, governance and delays before an engaged public audience. But as the eighth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 approaches and the redevelopment once again is tied up in delays and hurdles, Read More

Port Authority Public Affairs Chief to Lead Corzine’s PR Shop

Steve Sigmund moves from Port Authority to head up Corzine's communications Read More

See Chris Christie Skate

In January 2006, we now know from a memo released Tuesday by the House Judiciary Committee, the name of Christopher J. Christie—then the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey and now the Republican nominee for governor—appeared on a list of potential targets for removal by the Bush Justice Department.

Eight months later, Read More

Corzine Won’t Follow the Script

Just weeks before Election Day in 2002, with the campaign of incumbent senator Robert Torricelli overwhelmed by questions about his relationship with a shady contributor, his party gave him the hook in favor of the tried-and-true Frank Lautenberg.
So it is that within hours of last Thursday’s spectacular roundup by federal agents of dozens of Read More