Source: New York Post
Hedge fund honcho Ken Griffin’s record-setting donation to Carnegie Mellon University for a new campus in Miami — months after being dragged by Mayor Zohran Mamdani to promote his pied-à-terre tax — is “a loss” for New York, the head of the city’s business advocacy group said Sunday. The Citadel CEO pledged $2 billion last week to support the launch of a new 35-acre campus to turbocharge Florida’s technology industry, in addition to a $1 billion donation to the institution’s main Pittsburgh campus. Griffin, 57, did not allocate any funds to Manhattan’s Carnegie Mellon campus, which business leaders claimed was no coincidence after the socialist mayor used the billionaire as a poster child for his “tax the rich” agenda.
