Wonder what the Anschutz-Swarteneger relationship is.
I don’t know what Anschutz’s specific relationship to Arnie is, but he has hooked up in these land deals with drug-dealing-mobster and pardon-gate-beneficiary Carlos Vignali.
http://www.laweekly.com/news/features/las-underground-power-broker/619/
LA’s Underground Power Broker
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Today Vignali is where he has been for 30 years, in the South Park area of downtown, where he owns parking lots and warehouses in the shadows of the Convention Center and Staples Center. With real estate hotter than ever in that part of town, and the conversion of industrial property in vogue, his longstanding ownership of parcels in key locations gives him an important role in mapping the future of Los Angeles. Even more so considering that media mogul and reclusive billionaire Philip Anschutz is building a sports-and-entertainment district in South Park that his company, Anschutz Entertainment Group, is touting as the next Times Square. Such good fortune is far more than what Adams and Wehr think the Vignalis deserve.
Vignali’s money is no good in politics anymore, but business is still business, and he still has a few alliances with some who have access to City Hall. Vignali, a man who might have stayed below the radar forever if it weren’t for his drug-dealing son, has already brokered one land deal with Anschutz.