Chapter 576

Boeing 767 landed at San Jose Airport in Bay Area in more than half an hour.

Simon and Natasha henstretch walked out of the front cabin talking and laughing. Girl a and Raul Bradley met them and got off the plane together.

Raul Bradley looks at Natasha henstretch quietly. The 19-year-old girl looks at the man next to her with joy, admiration, flattery and a little less secret awe.

Obviously, in the past half an hour, they got along very well, not in the least. This year is another election year for the mayor of New York.

The current mayor, David Dinkins, has a second fight against New York City's former prosecutor, Rudy Giuliani.

In the election four years ago, Rudy Giuliani lost to David Dinkins, and the campaign funds and media support provided by westrow system played a great role.

This time, from the beginning of the election, Rudy Giuliani pointed his finger at the "big money" of the westrow system behind David dingins.

In recent years, the vistrow system has become more and more popular. When the media and the public marvel at Simon's rapid growth of personal wealth, there are inevitably more and more criticisms against this newly rising financial group.

David Dinkins is a very experienced politician. He may have enough new ideas for his re-election. Therefore, Dinkins resolutely chose to take the initiative to draw a line with the westero system, and even returned some election funds related to the westero system.

Simon had expected the fickleness of politicians, but he didn't expect Dinkins to be so straightforward.

The other side even disrupted the political layout of westrow system in New York.

You know, the westero system was intended to continue to support Dinkins at the beginning. When the other party suddenly defected, the westero system could not turn to other candidates at all, unless it switched to the Republican Party, which was obviously more impractical.

David Dinkins took the initiative to draw the line, and the westero system did not go up.

However, for such a world-class political, economic and cultural city as New York, many of the headquarters of westrow's subsidiaries are located here, so it is impossible to give up infiltrating into the city's politics. Simon finally decided to turn all the resources originally planned to invest in Dinkins to the fight for New York City councillors.

The final vote in the mayoral election will be held in early November.

The sudden arrival of the local media in New York can kill two birds with one stone. It not only makes trouble for the construction of the westero building project, which Simon attaches great importance to, but also attacks the support rate of David Dinkins.

As a result, when the small newspaper named "Manhattan metropolitan" stirred up the topic, the New York Times, the daily news and other newspapers began to follow up.

What Simon didn't expect is still behind.

This morning, without any communication with the westero system at all, David Dinkins made it clear at his weekly press conference that he had no interest in the westero system. After that, he also said publicly that the New York City Labor Department would cooperate with the construction workers' Union to investigate the safety of the construction site of the westero building.

There is a three hour time difference between the East and west coasts.

Simon left from the west coast to fly to New York. At the request of the New York City Government and the local workers' Union, all the workers at the construction site of the westero building had been withdrawn.

The westero building was forced to shut down.

If it's other real estate companies, it's not impossible for large projects of one billion US dollars to shut down suddenly, or for some serious cases, the enterprises to be dragged down.

As the polling day approaches, David Dinkins has shown a clear disadvantage in front of Rudy Giuliani.

To Simon, it's even a bit of a go for the ride when he suddenly makes trouble with the westero building project.

From the current mayor's speech at the press conference, we can see that the other side is not on the spur of the moment.

New immigrants have always been the basic target for the Democratic Party to win over as much as possible.

During his re-election campaign, David Dinkins has been trying his best to promote the population diversification of New York during his tenure.

It is self-evident what "pluralism" here means.

Therefore, although illegal workers do not have the right to vote in the Federation for the time being, it is inevitable that they will offend the immigrant groups in New York City if they are investigated at the same time.

The shrewd calculation of the old politicians is simply superb.

Simon on the plane to New York, more detailed understanding of a series of circumstances, but only sneer.

That's how Hillary Clinton in her memory calculated her presidency.

In the 2008 election, Wall Street originally supported Hillary Clinton. As a result, the powerful woman in politics saw that the media and the public were hostile to Wall Street because of the economic crisis. She had just taken the political contributions from Goldman Sachs, Morgan and other investment banks. In a twinkling of an eye, she pointed the spearhead at Wall Street and urged Congress to formulate more stringent regulatory laws against Wall Street.

In the end, Wall Street turned upside down and Hillary didn't even get the party candidate.David Dinkins's behavior is almost the same as Hillary in Simon's memory.

In other words, the way politicians think and behave has always been the same.

Of course, there must be more other factors in the two events. Hillary does not necessarily lose the chance to attack the presidency completely without the support of Wall Street, and David Dinkins probably does not turn over the westero system just for his re-election.

With the rapid expansion of the westero system, Simon has become the world's first one with a hundred billion dollar fortune. The Internet industry is becoming more and more large in output value. The opposition between igritte and traditional paper media

If it's really just security issues and illegal labor that cause the closure of the westero building, Simon may just leave the matter to James Leibold.

It was only when he realized that there might be other entanglements involved that he felt the need to come to the east coast.

Simon has always been a person who attaches great importance to preventive measures and understands the reason why the dike of thousands of miles is broken in the ant nest.

Of course, the shutdown of the westero building will not bring down the westero system, but he will not allow this matter to continue to develop or even expand. If other joints are involved, it must be sorted out as soon as possible.

Simon got off the plane and arrived at the westrow headquarters in midtown Manhattan. It was already more than 5:00 p.m. on the east coast. James Leibold and Jerry Speyer, CEO of Iron Lion Gate, were still waiting for him.

The most serious impact on the shutdown of westero building is actually Iron Lion Gate, which undertakes the project. Both illegal labor and construction safety are the areas that the other party should be responsible for. Westero company can even be regarded as the victim in this respect.

James and Speer had been negotiating with representatives of the New York City Government for a whole day.

We all sat down in a small conference room. Jerry spear, who is about 50 years old and has a round face, said with a wry smile, "this time is really troublesome, Simon. We didn't expect this."

Simon had a smile of understanding on his face, but he was not moved by Jerry Spear's complaint.

The time-honored Iron Lion Gate company has a history of 100 years, and the Speer family is deeply rooted in New York. David Dinkins didn't even call westero in advance, but Simon was sure that the Speer family would get the news ahead of time.

Girl a brought coffee in herself.

Simon took the coffee cup, turned his hand and gently rubbed it, saying: "Jerry, I gave the construction of the westrow building to the iron lion gate out of trust. It seems that the problems exposed by the media these days are all your problems."

When Jerry Speyer heard Simon say that, he also found that although the young man on the opposite side had a small face, he didn't smile in his eyes. He had a relaxed expression and said, "Simon, do you know how many people died during the construction of the Empire State building?"

Simon shook his head.

Jerry Speyer said: "because of the urgent construction period of the Empire State Building, public information about the 410 day construction process, although only five people died unexpectedly, in fact, the number is more than 10 times. The construction process of large-scale construction projects has never been safe. In the two years since the construction of the westero building, only some people were injured and there were no fatal accidents. This is enough to show that there is no safety problem in our construction environment. "

Simon nodded: "I understand."

"So," Jerry Speyer said with a smile again, "you must know that this time, it has nothing to do with iron lion gate."

Simon still rubbed his coffee cup: "so, Jerry, when will the building be back to work?"

Jerry Speyer looked at the young man across the street and said, "it's up to you to communicate with the New York City Government. Maybe you have to deal with the media."

Simon continued, "where's the iron lion gate?"

Jerry Speyer felt something strange in Simon's obviously cold voice. After a slight pause, he said, "Simon, we are actually implicated. You should understand that."

"I understand," Simon nodded again. "In this case, according to our original agreement, whether it's the use of illegal labor or the investigation caused by safety accidents in the construction process, the responsibility is on the side of iron lion gate. Mr. Speyer, you can leave now. The lawyers of Westeros will contact iron lion gate to terminate the contract, initiate a lawsuit and seek compensation The question of compensation. "

Jerry Speyer was stunned for a moment before he finally realized what Simon had just said. However, he soon calmed down and stared at the young man on the other side of the table: "Simon, it's not good for you to make things big."

"Or, another option," Simon said in a cold voice, with a good voice, but his eyes became sharper. "I don't care what method Iron Lion Gate uses. Within three days, the project must return to work, or I will change the contractor. I will double the money Iron Lion Gate earns from Westeros at all costs."

"If you do that, I can assure you, the westero building will never be built again," Jerry Speyer threatenedSimon didn't care about the threat and said, "since you can guarantee that the westero building will never be built, you can probably guarantee that the project will be back to work in three days. In addition, I can also assure you that if the westero building can not be built and the westero company exists for one day, I will target Iron Lion Gate for one day until one of us goes bankrupt. "

When Simon said this, Jerry Speyer didn't fight back immediately, and his expression was not clear.

A construction real estate company like iron lion gate can't grow without deep foundation support. As the headquarters of Iron Lion Gate, New York City has a deeper network than westrow system.

In recent days, Iron Lion Gate really got the news ahead of time.

Jerry Speyer was originally in the mood of watching the crowd. Maybe at the critical moment, he can get more benefits from his rich vistro. Otherwise, if the iron lion gate is released in advance, there will be no negative news about the westero building in the media.

If you think about it carefully, Iron Lion Gate really has a great responsibility and obligation to clean up the mess after it happens. However, Jerry Speyer originally thought that these should not be the Games Iron Lion Gate needs to participate in.

I just didn't expect that Simon westero would directly point at them when he arrived in New York.

Really falling out?

Without this project, the reputation of Iron Lion Gate in the industry will definitely suffer heavy losses.

If you become enemies with the westero system again, think about the young man's threat. Which company, westero or iron lion gate, goes bankrupt first?

He dare not gamble.

At the same time, I also thought about the young man's past deeds.

This is a tough guy who dares to break the enemy's five legs neatly.

This is a ruthless person who stops the release of a ten million level record because the partner conceals the revenue.

Even.

This is a lunatic with a history of mental illness.