Multi-billionaire Ken Griffin is appalled that the popular and effective Mayor of NYC, Zohran Mamdani (D), used his 24,000-square-foot Manhattan penthouse last week as the backdrop for a tax-the-rich video, triggering a subtle threat to re-evaluate his firm's investment in the city.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani mentioned Citadel CEO Ken Griffin by name while announcing a new tax on expensive second homes in New York City for non-residents.
-- Forbes (@forbes.com) Apr 23, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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Must be nice being a mega-oligarch
Why fabulously wealthy Ken Griffin's panty-hose got in a bundle: 93% of New Yorkers Approve of this Tax Measure on the Ruling Elites
The brand new coach of the New York Giants, John Harbaugh, who amassed a winning record spanning 18 years, including Super Bowl XLVII with the Boston Ravens, had a simple message for his new team this month:
"You don't want to be here; we don't want you here."
Mega-oligarch Ken Griffin has a net worth of $41 billion and is the CEO of Citadel, a hedge fund with over $55 billion in assets under management. Source: Offended Oligarch Should Leave NYC
This Harvard University graduate's name appears 36 times in the Epstein files and several times in Jeffrey Epstein's email correspondence.
