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  They're fine, they can just ask their wives' boyfriends.
context: The "Buffalo Billion" which funded this project is now widely understood to have been a pipeline from taxpayers directly to property developers. It was rife with sketchy no-bid contracts, the public commentary sessions were packed with literal shills, and the ultimate result was gentrification of urban neighborhoods without the promised return of job creation.
  Cuomo's top aide in jail. Four property developers in jail. The only reason Brown ended up clean out of all of this was because it was assumed by all involved that he was just the bag man. No serious white-collar criminal would ever trust Byron Brown not to accidentally fuck up their graft by allowing him to help. >
  
  We also invest into dilapidated buildings all over the city and there’s never any visible improvements, IMO without an ounce of doubt the tax payers are being robbed and we need a more thorough investigation involving ALL city finances and the departments in which they’re allocated. >
  
  Since all the solar talk stemmed from conning Tesla backers to bail out his cousin's massively mismanaged solar installation company a couple of days before bankruptcy as it couldn't make payroll, is it any surprise that the presentation was a lot of hastily invented lies (solar roofing tiles existing and having already been installed at all the houses at the press release was a literal unattainable outright lie) were thrown in the air to get it over the line.  That's the MO - lie to shareholders, lie to governments, you see it repeated over and over. >
  
  TSLA shareholders should have sued over this. >
  
  TSLA shareholders might struggle to afford the lawyer these days.