When I wrote my first column about the jeweler, I remember his other son Isaac, a lawyer, telling me that the family wanted Mr. Abraham to leave the Diamond District, where he'd worked for many years before moving to the Upper East Side.

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Matt is a very senior, highly respected loan originator and manager that I have worked with for many years and he is in fact a CPA, which garners lots of respect from his clients and appropriate deference from his peers, me included.

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After having worked under the radar for so many years, he became a celebrity with the 2012 release of his book, which became a New York Times best-seller.

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He appointed as his deputy Paul Farmer, an American doctor and anthropologist who worked in Haiti for many years and is a radical critic of its social inequalities.

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Ray Parry, who has worked at the factory for 35 years, echoed the views of many workers when he said he was concerned about how few well-paid jobs might be available locally.

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"He was a great leader, " said former AP president and CEO Tom Curley, who worked closely with Neuharth for many years.

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