And all my 658 of my 960 New York employees were killed. My brother Gary was killed. My best friend Doug. So I rebuilt the company to take care of their families. We gave 25% of our profits, which since the company didn't really make much profits after the murder of Everybody, we gave 25% of our payroll to the families, your bonuses, and we gave them $180 million to those families. So I just had to rebuild my company, you know, and my company was finally back, you know, was big and strong and winning and capable. (17:15–17:30)
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Asserts that [Howard Lutnick's company] gave $180 million to families of employees killed in 9/11.
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