<p><pre><code> Rebekah Neumann roped in WeWork staff to lobby phone companies to remove a 5G cellular antenna across from their Gramercy Park home.
Rebekah was scared of a 5G cellular antenna next to their apartment — afraid that electromagnetism from it could cause cancer.
First, WeWork’s CFO Artie Minson, who had previously worked at Time Warner Cable, was asked to persuade Verizon or Sprint to find a new home for the antenna — despite him busily preparing WeWork for an IPO. Minson didn’t get far, so others in the organization were roped in.
Finally, it landed with Maria Comella, WeWork’s top public affairs and policy executive. She had been chief of staff to Gov. Cuomo and an aide to Chris Christie. But in the spring of 2018, she was tasked with calling up phone companies and pleading for her boss and his wife: Please move this antenna.
“We understand that the Neumanns got to a point where they found a way to buy out the cell carrier’s lease and would have been able to have it taken down,” co-author Eliot Brown told The Post. “But that happened right as things were imploding [at WeWork]. To the best of our knowledge, it did not come down.”
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This stood out to me. Then I thought about why of all the anecdotes in the article, this would be the most interesting. It seems that stories about corruption have become mundane through repetition, but stupidity still retains its freshness.