Executives from Major League Soccer were joined by investors from the United Arab Emirates, the owners of the Manchester City Football Club, who were willing to build the stadium for a new American soccer team they hoped to buy. They were at odds with another group in the room: Jeff Wilpon and his cousin Scott, who represented the Mets and who were demanding more than $40 million from the Abu Dhabi investors as compensation for allowing soccer fans to park at nearby Citi Field.
via Manchester City and Yankees to Own M.L.S. Club in New York – NYTimes.com.
Cousin Scott? Did we know about Cousin Scott?
We barely know anything about Fred and/or Jeff, never mind Cousin Scott. God only knows what he’s up to with the Mets. I can only imagine and it’s not pretty.
Maybe Cousin Scott is awesome.
Cousin Scott: We’ll call him Sonny. Just as Jeff Wilpon is known as Fredo. Sonny Corleone in THE GODFATHER infamously barged into a meeting of the Five Families when they discussed getting into a new and exciting business – the drug trade. As evidenced by media reports, Scott Wilpon was in on a meeting with representatives of the oil billionaires that want to build a soccer stadium in Flushing, but Scott and Jeff Wilpon tried to extort money from them for use of the city-owned [but leased to the Wilpons] Citi Field parking lots.