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Driven by greed and profit — build it and they will come, or build it and they will die?
Undocumented foreign migrants worked on his building sites and he sourced second-rate supplies and materials – from concrete and steel to Formica – from criminal cartels, all in pursuit of excessive profit margins. He flouted city regulations, used …