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ProfessorGAC

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4. Heard That Too

Reply to Auggie (Reply #3)

Fri Dec 23, 2022, 11:28 AM

Dec 2022

Salaries & tax will be a half-billion.
Aside from the teams he owns, that's more money than the owner of the White Sox & Bulls has!
Now, his teams are worth $9 billion, so there will be no food drive for him.
But with Cohen, $500 million is 1.4% of what he's worth.

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