a couple of days ago.
The building has been shut down for 3 years. Then in a sweetheart deal some real estate investor gets the building for $40,000.
Of course, the estimate for cleaning the place up came in at anywhere from $10 to $100 million. Mmm, a minimum of $10 mil for a job that took 3 days?
I wonder if the lucky investor is an FOB, friend of Bu$h? Anyone know who David Rustine is? Enquirering minds would like to know.
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/buildinginboca.htmlA company owned by David Rustine of Boca Raton purchased the building from AMI, publisher of The National Enquirer and other supermarket tabloids, for $40,000. He estimates that the building will be worth $12 million to $15 million once it's cleaned up.
The cleanup would remove what the government considers a public health hazard. But it also may involve destroying AMI's peculiar piece of Americana: its library of tabloid photographs of politicians, space aliens and celebrities -- including a famous image of Elvis at Graceland in his coffin.
Rustine said Thursday that he has hired Marcor Remediation Inc., one of the companies that cleaned up the Hart Senate Office Building, to handle the decontamination.