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"Rex Hauermann may have had friends in high places…"
"His expertise was in expediting projects through arcane city building codes rather than in architectural design."
"ruh roh…"
"In the aftermath of his [Rex Hauermann] arrest, The Real Deal,an online outlet covering real estate news, reported he was hired for a $200,000 partition and plumbing job at The Trump Building on Wall Street. (“Mr. Heuermann has never worked for the Trump Organization in any capacity,” a spokesperson for the company clarified. “According to our records, he was hired by a third-party tenant, who vacated years ago, to perform minor architectural work in their individuual space.”)
"Ahem. Rex Hauermann may also have done jobs for people in high places…"
"According to Department of Buildings records, it was only one such instance of Heuermann’s work brushing up against the industry’s seedier and more colorful characters. In 1998, he did a small job for the developersFred Contini and Tamir Sapirat100 Church Street—$15,000 to “demolish interior non-load bearing partitions, raised floor and hung ceiling.”(Contini,who also co-owned the Tribeca nightclub Chaos, pleaded guilty to racketeering charges in 2004 after admitting to working with the Gambino and Genovese crime families. Sapir, who died in 2014, moved to the US from Georgia and was a cabbie who went on to became a billionaire in 2002.His daughter got married at Mar-A-Lago, Trump and Jared Kushner were invited to her son’s bris, and Sapir was once fined by federal authorities for illegally importing rare animal parts that he kept on his 150-foot yacht.)
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2023/08/rex-heuermann-gilgo-beach-new-york-architect