Queens Residents Are Outraged Over Amazon HQ2 Plan To Turn LIC Into a Company Town with Maritza Silva-Farrell is Executive Director of ALIGN (Alliance for a Greater New York) and Greg LeRoy is executive director for Good Jobs First and is quoted in the New York Times recently as saying as we documented in a study last April, the Crystal City and Long Island City subsidy offers are among the many HQ2 bids that remain completely hidden. Citizens have no idea what their elected officials have promised to a company headed by the richest person on earth.
Community organizations representing more than 200,000 members across New York City and State are concerned that NY is rolling out the red carpet for Jeff Bezos Amazon. Why are the Mayor and Governor handing the keys to the city to Amazon, whose market value, which surpassed Microsoft's in February 2018, making Amazon the world's third most valuable company? Bezos holds 78.9 million shares of Amazon stock. He is now the richest man of all time, with an estimated net worth of $105 billion dollars. **************************
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