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One-time first lady of state politics Kathryn Greiner buys $4m Paddington penthouse

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Kathryn Greiner , the former City of Sydney councillor and Gonski Review panellist , has downsized to a $ 4 million penthouse in the Paddington Green complex . Greiner, AO is the one-time first lady of state politics when her former husband Nick Greiner was NSW premier from 1988 to 1992. However, the couple’s split in 2013 prompted them to sell their Centennial Park mansion for $6.25 million the following year. Kathryn Greiner 's new spread in Paddington." /> Kathryn Greiner ’s new spread in Paddington. Photo: Supplied Greiner has been rumoured to be house hunting a decent downsizer in the years since. Her new digs is a whole-floor spread with three bedrooms and 213 square metres of wraparound terrace.  It was owned by LHC Capital co- founder Marcus Hughes , who bought it three years ago for $2.9 million. Nick Greiner, meanwhile, has moved to Point Piper where he and his partner Carolyn Fletcher bought an apartment for $5.5 million in 2014. Kathryn Greiner at 21/4 Y...

Carl Icahn’s Failed Raid on Washington

One day in August, 2016, the financier Carl Icahn made an urgent phone call to the Environmental Protection Agency . Icahn is one of the richest men on Wall Street, and he has thrived, in no small measure, because of a capacity to intimidate. A Texas- based oil refiner in which he had a major stake was losing money because of an obscure environmental rule that Icahn regarded as unduly onerous. Icahn is a voluble critic of any government regulation that constrains his companies. So he wanted to speak with the person in charge of enforcing the policy: a senior official at the E.P.A. named Janet McCabe . Icahn works from a suite of offices, atop the General Motors Building , in midtown, that are decorated in the oak-and-leather fashion of a tycoon’s lair in a nineteen-eighties film. During that decade, Icahn made his reputation as one of the original corporate raiders , pioneering the art of the hostile takeover and establishing himself as a human juggernaut—a pugnacious deal machine ...