Bruce Ratner

Jeffrey Epstein, Leslie Groff and the Forest City Ratners’ of Beachwood maintained business and social relations years after his prostitution with a minor conviction

CLEVELAND, OH – Starting with Cedar Road in Beachwood or in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and in the hushed corridors of the Jewish Community Federation, or perhaps in New York, Washington, DC, Connecticut, Los Angeles or Palm Springs, members of the Ratner family are watching the news out of Columbus about fellow Russian Jew and billionaire Leslie Wexner with dread. Wexner, the 88-year-old founder of Victoria‘s Secret, and once the most powerful businessman in Ohio, sat for a grueling, five-hour deposition before the House Oversight Committee on February 18, 2026.  Five days ago, from the date of this news story, he…

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Forest City’s Albert Ratner’s father and uncles lied their way from Russia to the U.S.

Albert Ratner's Forest City Enterprises his father and uncles built has ripped off Cleveland for millions in federal funds. Is Forest City Enterprises another Jones Day client? Is fat meat greasey?

CLEVELAND, OH -In literally every biography about Forest City Trust’s “Ratner family” and the real estate development corporation that Albert Ratner once led as Chief Executive Officer; the storyline is similar to those published in the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History and a Stan Bullard story in Crain’s Cleveland Business in 2005.  Kalman Ratowczer or Charles Ratner is supposed to be the first member of the Ratner family to emigrate to the United States of America from Russia in 1906 out of 8 siblings.  Published reports claim their Russian name was Ratowzer or Ratowczer in Eastern Europe. The surname was changed…

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