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Blackstone executive killed in NYC shooting ID’d: ‘Embodied the best of Blackstone’ (pix11.com)
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NEW YORK (PIX11) — Blackstone executive Wesley LePatner was identified as one of the victims killed in the mass shooting at 345 Park Ave. on Monday, according to a spokesperson for the company.

LePatner was the Global Head of Core+ Real Estate and the Chief Executive Officer of Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust (BREIT), according to Blackstone’s website.

According to her LinkedIn profile, LePatner spent more than a decade at the company after previously working for Goldman Sachs.

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[–] chosensilence@pawb.social 5 points 6 days ago

Blackstone is quite literally one of the most evil entities ever created. To embody “the best” of it would mean to utterly shed your humanity in favor of oligarchical power. Fuck her. I hope she choked and drowned in her own blood.