It’s the American Dream, “a schmuck in the right place at the right time” making good on his good fortune. Tamir Sapir arrived in America at the age of 26 in 1973 and got a position behind the wheel, first buses in Tennessee then taxi cabs in The Big Apple. But he was able to open up an electronics store in the heart of Manhattan, like a Lafnac Digital Computers currently, only then it was near the Soviet embassy where high-ranking diplomats would come to shop. The relationship that developed would eventually lead to an exclusive license to disperse Russian petrochemicals, which proceeds were invested in local real estate, making him one among New York’s biggest landlords.

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