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Part Two: Sam Zell: the Elon Musk of Real Estate

Behind the Bastards

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We Have a Woman. We're Not Sexist. Yeah.

Zell hired a woman named Kim Johnson to be his SVP of local sales in the news release announcing her hire. He said that she was a quote, former waitress at knockers, the place for hot racks and cold brews. So I took this don't call our harassment harassment seriously. The company introduced promotions that seemed to have been drawn from the radio handbook and four of the company's television stations. An event called cash grab in which the viewer was led into a bank vault and allowed to scoop up dollar bills was inserted in the middle of WPIX TV newscasts with viewers cheered on by Hooters waitresses.

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