Posted on 10/05/2021 8:39:37 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Billionaire Ken Griffin, founder and CEO of the hedge fund Citadel, hinted Monday that he might move his company’s headquarters from Chicago, saying the crime makes the city more akin to a war-torn country.
“It’s becoming ever more difficult to have this as our global headquarters, a city which has so much violence,” Griffin said. “I mean Chicago is like Afghanistan, on a good day, and that’s a problem.”
Griffin said he personally saw “25 bullet shots in the glass window of the retail space” in the building he lives in, adding that someone “tried to carjack the security detail” that sits outside his house.
Griffin owns a $59 million Chicago condo, the most expensive in the state, according to Forbes.
The perception of crime has started making it difficult to recruit talent to Citadel’s Chicago campus, he said, and he can’t in good faith tell people the city is a good place to raise a family anymore.
...he was asked if New York City could serve as an “antidote to the dysfunction” of Chicago. “You guys need some new medicine, too, because some of the same problems that we have faced is now unfolding in New York,” Griffin said. “The path New York is on is a scary path.”
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—”Wrong....man folks assume a lot on this guy.”
ABSOLUTELY!
Why this guy stays in Chicago is a mystery to me.
And he spent megabucks to keep the fat slob of a governor out.
Wow. What is he doing in crapcago!
Chicago has some very wealthy areas—but even years ago I remember visiting relatives in one of those areas and thinking “this is not going to go well, you need to get out of this city”.
Some folks just have no early warning detectors.
—”It better be made of gold and have its own harem.”
No mention of amenities provided.
Harems are old school and his gold is deep in a vault.
“According to local media reports, Griffin bought the top four floors of a new condo tower on the Gold Coast for $58.5 million. And he’s buying raw space. So he will spend millions more to turn the space into a home.
The space will total more than 25,000 square feet.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/10/billionaire-ken-griffin-buys-most-expensive-home-in-chicago.html
Florida's free and safe...and we plan on staying that way. Ken Griffin's welcome to move here... an added bonus? NO STATE INCOME TAX.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOC_dcuJO48
Conservative Protest Song about: General "Willie" (prick) Mark Milley, General Austin & Winken Blinken. Start at .43 to skip Hannity intro...
IIRC, Ken Griffin was born and raised in the Sunshine State.
And that’s why they pay an MBA a $150k salary
As long as it didn’t affect the business on the loop or the tourists, it was okie dokie.
It’s a condo.. Ken Griffin will break it up into 3 condos and sell them all as penthouse units.
Citadel just announced today (6/23/2022) that they will be moving their firm to Miami.
Another huge business that generates massive tax revenue moves out of a democrat-run hellhole. Get woke. Go broke.
Lori lightweight and the bloated Illinois governor will not be pleased.
So, they’ll just make up for it by fleecing the US taxpayers.
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