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Parker Hunsaker

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Parker Hunsaker: Inside the 9/11 Insurance Payout: $4.5 Billion & a Billionaire’s Gamble | DSH #1685

Right.

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Parker Hunsaker: Inside the 9/11 Insurance Payout: $4.5 Billion & a Billionaire’s Gamble | DSH #1685

Yeah, well, so 9-11 is one of those things that if you take a look at it, I mean, I'll just come out publicly and say I think it was an inside job.

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Parker Hunsaker: Inside the 9/11 Insurance Payout: $4.5 Billion & a Billionaire’s Gamble | DSH #1685

And if I die, just know that I would never kill myself.

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Parker Hunsaker: Inside the 9/11 Insurance Payout: $4.5 Billion & a Billionaire’s Gamble | DSH #1685

Just know that.

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Parker Hunsaker: Inside the 9/11 Insurance Payout: $4.5 Billion & a Billionaire’s Gamble | DSH #1685

But essentially, if you look at the story, Larry Silverstein, he's a billionaire, essentially an investor, right?

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Parker Hunsaker: Inside the 9/11 Insurance Payout: $4.5 Billion & a Billionaire’s Gamble | DSH #1685

He purchased the World Trade Center six weeks before anything had happened before.

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Parker Hunsaker: Inside the 9/11 Insurance Payout: $4.5 Billion & a Billionaire’s Gamble | DSH #1685

Before 9-11.

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Parker Hunsaker: Inside the 9/11 Insurance Payout: $4.5 Billion & a Billionaire’s Gamble | DSH #1685

So six weeks before 9-11, you have a gentleman named Larry Silverstein coming in and purchasing it.

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Parker Hunsaker: Inside the 9/11 Insurance Payout: $4.5 Billion & a Billionaire’s Gamble | DSH #1685

Now, at that point in time, the building was required by the city to go under major renovation for asbestos.

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Parker Hunsaker: Inside the 9/11 Insurance Payout: $4.5 Billion & a Billionaire’s Gamble | DSH #1685

So they wouldn't essentially allow any more people inside working until the asbestos had been fully removed.

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Parker Hunsaker: Inside the 9/11 Insurance Payout: $4.5 Billion & a Billionaire’s Gamble | DSH #1685

which meant that it was very undesirable to investors because they had to undergo a renovation project that could cost quite a bit of money.

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Parker Hunsaker: Inside the 9/11 Insurance Payout: $4.5 Billion & a Billionaire’s Gamble | DSH #1685

So he comes in and buys it.

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Parker Hunsaker: Inside the 9/11 Insurance Payout: $4.5 Billion & a Billionaire’s Gamble | DSH #1685

He says, I'll take on the asbestos liability.

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Parker Hunsaker: Inside the 9/11 Insurance Payout: $4.5 Billion & a Billionaire’s Gamble | DSH #1685

I'll take care of the renovation six weeks before 9-11.

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Parker Hunsaker: Inside the 9/11 Insurance Payout: $4.5 Billion & a Billionaire’s Gamble | DSH #1685

When he did that, make sure I get my numbers right, he took out a $3.5 billion policy that covered against the buildings.

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Parker Hunsaker: Inside the 9/11 Insurance Payout: $4.5 Billion & a Billionaire’s Gamble | DSH #1685

So if something happened, that coverage was there.

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Parker Hunsaker: Inside the 9/11 Insurance Payout: $4.5 Billion & a Billionaire’s Gamble | DSH #1685

Here's the thing.

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Parker Hunsaker: Inside the 9/11 Insurance Payout: $4.5 Billion & a Billionaire’s Gamble | DSH #1685

Most of the time, terrorism is excluded on policies.

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Parker Hunsaker: Inside the 9/11 Insurance Payout: $4.5 Billion & a Billionaire’s Gamble | DSH #1685

That's just a standard in the insurance industry because the chances of that happening is very slim.

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Parker Hunsaker: Inside the 9/11 Insurance Payout: $4.5 Billion & a Billionaire’s Gamble | DSH #1685

Now, when you're dealing with business owners and high execs, oftentimes they ask to have that on.