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>"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 developers Fred Contini andTamir Sapirat 100 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.)==

Rare animal parts? Likely exotic meat dinner…

But that reminds me of the engangered species hunting that was rumored to go on at the Kluge Estate (now Trump Vineyards) in Charlottesville. Kluge, once the richest man in the USA in the 80s, was the owner of Metromedia…which ultimately became FOX…