[lbo-talk] Air America's troubles

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Jun 22 13:04:31 PDT 2004


budge wrote:


>On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 at 9:45am Doug Henwood wrote:
>>
>> Air America's left-leaning orientation gave the fledging network a
>> public profile and helped lure donors, including RealNetworks Inc.'s
>> Chief Executive Rob Glaser and New York's Durst family of real-estate
>
>same family as the guy that hacked his neighbor up into
>pieces and dumped him in gaveston bay?

Yup.


> he just had his
>$3Billion bail for bail-jumping judged unreasonable by a
>state appeals court here. (was found not guilty of murder a
>few mos back) i'd never heard of the dursts until one of
>'em killed a guy in gaveston -- what are they known for?

Real estate wealth and eccentricity - they're a bit askew from the NYC real estate establishment. One of the Dursts put up that famous debt clock near Times Sq in the 1980s. Like real estate guys are known for being debt shy.

Doug



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