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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-11-06 10:50 AM
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Ex-cab driver pays record $40m for New York house


Associated Press in New York
Wednesday January 11, 2006
The Guardian


A former cab driver who made a fortune from Russian oil contracts and Manhattan property has bought a Fifth Avenue mansion for $40m (£22.7m), the highest paid for a Manhattan townhouse.

Tamir Sapir, 58, left Georgia, in the former Soviet Union, in 1973 and lived in Israel, Germany, and Louisville, Kentucky, before settling in New York in 1976. He drove a cab for three years before going into business.

Mr Sapir, who currently lives in an apartment in Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, said he was considering moving into the mansion's penthouse on the sixth and seventh floors.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1683729,00.html

HOPE he ain't a business pal of one J. Abramoff Esq...
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Hugin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-11-06 10:53 AM
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1. I must make a note to myself...
To *reduce* my tipping percentage.
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