Current Events > Chicago's richest man moving his family and his company to Florida

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Citadel officials cited crime as one critical reason for the move. According to a report, over the last few years, there have been multiple incidents involving Citadel employees. Ken Griffin himself experienced an attempted carjacking, a Citadel employee was stabbed while walking to work, and there have been numerous reports of shootings, riots, and looting near some employees homes.

Ken Griffin has been outspoken about how crime has affected his employees. In a recent interview, he said, if people arent safe here, theyre not going to live here. Ive had multiple colleagues mugged at gunpoint. Ive had a colleague stabbed on the way to work, countless issues of burglary. I mean, thats a really difficult backdrop with which to draw talent to your city from.

I mean... if you read the article it seems like that may genuinely be the reason he's moving, or at least why he's leaving that specific location. From the article:

Considering Chicago and Miami have roughly similar reported crime rates I'm calling bullshit.

Also, this article was published last year. Pretty sure someone just made some update to try and fearmonger over the progressive mayor winning

Good thing there's no crime in Florida.

Guy is a trash trumper that loves desantis and doesnt want to pay his fair share of taxes. Of course he wants to move to florida. He was also the clown involved in the gamestop fiasco

what kind of business does he run that he just cancels everyone's job, or makes them move, and then rehires everyone with no effort on his part?