Billionaire who swamped city with dollars inherits a troubled legacy By David Usborne 08 November 2001
New Yorkers awoke yesterday to discover that they had responded to the terror of 11 September by making a remarkable electoral gamble. They had pledged the city's levers of political power to a tycoon with zero experience of public office.
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