Catsimatidis Sounds Off On Politics

NEW YORK - It's a Friday morning and John Catsimatidis is simultaneously sleepy, scrappy and animated. He tells us to make ourselves some coffee before sitting down and placing his three phones on the table in the conference room of his Red Apple Group, Inc. headquarters. It's not clear why Catsimatidis, a Greek-American billionaire and former New York City mayoral candidate, keeps three phones, if not out of the goodness of his heart to keep BlackBerry and 'old-fashioned phones' in business. He is quick to swat at our joke that one is for the money, the other for the honey - he says the media tried in vain to dig up all they could from girlfriends and women of the past. If you are hard pressed to believe that the self-proclaimed 'Man of the People' is, in fact, 'pro-people,' Catsimatidis' office on the desolate corner of West 56th and 11th Avenue is convincing evidence.

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