Citadel founder Ken Griffin is escalating his feud with New York City’s mayor across the Atlantic, announcing Tuesday he will bypass City Hall and meet directly with Gov. Kathy Hochul later this week to discuss the state’s economic climate.
Speaking at a global financial summit in Oslo, the 57-year-old hedge fund executive — worth an estimated $50.5 billion — ripped Mayor Zohran Mamdani for using his $238 million Manhattan penthouse as the focal point in a campaign for a new luxury real estate tax.
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“What upset me was the personal attack,” Griffin said Tuesday during a panel discussion at the Norges Bank Investment Management conference in Oslo. “I think the willingness of a mayor of New York to make this a policy debate a personal attack, just demonstrated a profound lack of judgment.”…