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7. Howard Lutnick stole most of the 9/11 insurance settlement money for himself and the other senior executives

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Sun Feb 15, 2026, 12:13 PM

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I have done enough deals with wall street firms to NOT be surprised by the OP. As an undergrad, I was an accounting major but took as many advance economic classes as possible because they were easy and interested me. One of the weaker students who was in one of the advance economics class went to a wall street firm even though he never understood most of the concepts discussed in that class.

I saw this article this morning. It appears that Lutnick stole insurance recoveries from employees

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