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On graft, the State is a trough for those in power to gorge

Right across my office building at the City University of New York Law School, where I am currently based, lies the Citi building which was to be the temporary home of Amazon.com Inc. Amazon is one of the world’s wealthiest companies, and CEO Jeff Bezos is the world’s richest man.

But it is no more after New Yorkers resisted and questioned the arrangement including how the company and city would deal with the increased stress on facilities such as transport, water, sewage, and the attendant rising costs of housing in the US’s most expensive housing market.

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