Witkoff: the savvy strategist

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Steve Witkoff
Steve Witkoff

From the January issue: It was the kind of chance encounter Steven Witkoff could only have dreamt about back when he was a young attorney pulling 90-hour workweeks at Dreyer & Traub in the late 1970s.

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Back then, the firm’s swashbuckling clients included Peter Kalikow, Donald Trump, Arthur Cohen, and — the standout in Witkoff’s eyes — Howard Lorber, who cruised around in a cream-colored Rolls Royce convertible with the top down smoking a cigar. [more]