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[QUOTE="BillSU, post: 2922083, member: 6809"]
[B]Here's our boy...Ben - maybe all in Syracuse and surroundings know who he is - I didn't- interesting![/B]

Title: Owner of Upstate Shredding-Ben Weitsman.
Born in: Owego.
Lives in: Vestal.
Family: Married to Kim, 32. Adam and Kim Weitsman have one daughter, Clover, 4.
Education: Weitsman graduated from Owego Free Academy in 1986. He attended Long Island University from 1986 to 1989 but did not get a degree.

Professional background: In August 1996, Weitsman began discussions about establishing a new business called Upstate Shredding. Six months later, Upstate Shredding opened on a 17-acre site in the Tioga Industrial Park in Owego. Before getting into the scrap business — a transition Weitsman said he never expected to make — he was the director of an art gallery in SoHo, a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan. Afterward, Weitsman owned his own small art gallery.

[B]The past 15 years of Upstate Shredding-Ben Weitsman owner Adam Weitsman's life are fit for the pages of a book. Weitsman is a convicted felon who served almost a year in prison for check-kiting.[/B] He built a $30 million mansion on Skaneateles Lake, which is near a 115-year-old restaurant he is renovating. Meanwhile, Weitsman's company now has 18 locations, about 500 employees and is closing in on $1 billion a year in sales.

Does a lot of charity donating to offset his past.

Needs a translator - PR guy. He certainly can afford one. How he got involved with Jim and the basketball team is apparently another story.
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