We’re Not in Kansas Anymore: Midwest Hospitality Group Comes to Brooklyn and Wilpon May Profit From Madoff
By Jotham Sederstrom March 20, 2012 9:10 am
reprints- Kansas-based LodgeWorks plans to build a 117-key hotel to a vacant lot at 125 Flatbush Avenue, near Downtown Brooklyn. (the Real Deal)
- Buried under 45 pages of legal speak in pension legislation that passed on Thursday is language that could undermine the stated goal of reforming a broken system, so says the New York Daily News’ Bill Hammond. (NYDN)
- Fred Wilpon, real estate maven and owner of the Mets, may actually profit from his dealings with criminal Bernard Madoff following a so-called “sweetheart settlement” with lawyers tasked with recouping billions from the Ponzie scheme. (NYP)