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JonnyFive - Unfortunately, it now makes even less sense that Silverstein would destroy the towers.
Silverstein leased the towers from the Port Authority, and so the PA still owned the site and made the decisions about whether or not to rebuild it. If you recall, there was a great deal of discussion around 2001 and 2002 about what exactly to do with the site. It was finally decided to put up the Freedom Tower, but that wasn't the only plan on the table.
The "escape clause" allows Silverstein to stop paying rent and capital improvements costs (which, by the way, are quoted at $200 million in the article, so I have no idea where this idea that it was a condemned building comes from)."
From here
http://www.apfn.net/Messageboard/07-21-06/discussion.cgi.97.html
and here
http://redlineav.com/tsg.deposition.contd.2.html
"You still haven't presented evidence it was "condemned". The low cost of capital improvements (a far cry from the billions of dollars quoted by some of the CT sites) Silverstein was responsible for would indicate otherwise."
See the links above.
"And you claim to follow the decisions of the court, but somehow I don't believe you because you never seem to acknowledge
jury decided it was one event, not two."
No I said that I did not follow it 100%. I also remember hearing in the news that Larry was appealing it. Havent heard if it has been in appeals court yet or not and what the outcome might have been if it did.
"You must also realize that the towers were
substantial source of rental income. According to the
financial impact statement prepared for the NYS senate, the clients in the Ground Zero area brought in $847 million a year in rental income."
You must realize that money is a moving factor and if you follow the money then things will start to make sense. I don't understand it all, but it sure does not look good for the parties involved so far. Here is a HYPOTHESIS: Perhaps Larry was guaranteed a substantial amount of money if he turned his eyes to what was happening? Just look at ALL the money that has been un-accounted for. BILLIONS! Do you think this could happen without 9/11?
"In three and a half years, that's three billion dollars."
Yeah, but look at the BILLIONS that have come up missing and made by others. He is part of that "I'll scratch your back if you scratch my back" crowd.
"Why bother to destroy the towers and go through all these legal battles and lose money when he could just sit around and collect over three quarters of a billion a year in rent?"
See above comment.
"And what if the insurance companies decided not to pay? They didn't have to pay out, if they felt there was something suspicious."
That is true! That is why the buildings had to be destroyed and the material shipped off immediately. You people are real quick to point out that the FBI was in charge so the NTSB would not analyse the plane debris, but you gloss over the fact that if they were doing a REAL investigation that they would contain all that debris after the search and rescue phase and obtain as much evidence as they could. This did not happen.
" You do know that people try to burn their own property to collect on insurance all the time, right?"
Yes, but how many of them have the world looking on while it is being done and them seeing a crazy man driving a car on fire through thier house?
" It doesn't work that well. So you're telling me that even though all you CTist can discover the hidden truth, all the insurance companies who stand to lose billions missed it all? That makes no sense."
Do you think that they have access to the information? The Senate can't even get it, and you expect the Insurance companies to?
"Were the insurance companies in on it too?"
Of course not! That type of comments are rediculous just like when you people always come back with: The firement, police, ems, etc...... There were only a handful of people in the know! And before you go with that other great comment: "How can they keep that a secret, when they can't even keep things in washington a secret". Let me ask you to please tell me how many SEAL or Special Ops missions have you heard about? Secrets CAN be kept when they need to. If you know that a gun will be put to your head and you WILL be killed, there is a little more insentive then having to face the standard criminal system.
"Until you learn to use the quote function, that's it from me (unless you answer the bolded question, I'll respond to that). I just felt I needed to acknowledge the new information you found, which was nice of you, and add in some additional information I found as well."
At least you are starting to actually debate. This MIGHT turn out to be pleasent in the end, but I won't hold my breath.