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First Union nears CEO deal after false starts.

Crain's Cleveland Business, October, 1998 by Bullard, Stan

STAN BULLARD First Union Real Estate Investments of Cleveland has traveled almost as rocky a road finding a new chief executive officer as its stock has traversed since a dissident group of shareholders took control last May. In an unusual seven-page posting on the Yahoo! Finance Internet message board for First Union, William Ackman, First Union chairman and a principal in Gotham Partners LP of New York, said the troubled real estate investment trust has come close to 'a deal with a new CEO twice.' In the first instance, the candidate turned down the job because of 'personal, family-related reasons,' Mr.

Ackman said on the message board, which has be come an increasingly popular forum for web-savvy investors to rant or rave about companies. In the...

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