The mansion has bounced on and off the market since 2013. [22][23][24] Viola founded a technology company, Rowan Technology Solutions, to support cadet education in the areas of military history, military science, and leadership. A native of Syosset, N.Y., Cifu graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University, where he was elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society, before completing his J.D. The case is in Wilmington, DEs Chancery Court before Vice Chancellor Paul Fioravanti Jr. At the end of January, the court was notified that both sides are engaging on a schedule with the next update by the end of the month. I think hes not removed. Net Worth: $2.8 Billion. Mr. 1. I mean thats really the immigrant story, isnt it, really? Davis is the fourth Black performer to win the quartet of awards after Whoopi Goldberg, John Legend, and Jennifer Hudson. This is very, very unique. [15] Viola took Virtu Financial public in April 2015, trading as a NASDAQ listed company (VIRT). Yeah, actuallyand even more important, organizing the conduct of basically whatthe honor code and the administration of the honor code, the enforcement of it, is not much unlike our jurisprudential system. Jan. 18, 2017. I think General Goodpaster became the Superintendent the following year or the following year. The billionaire owner of the Florida Panthers hockey team, Vincent Viola, is at the center of a Delaware lawsuit that alleges he's used his control of a large publicly traded financial services company to improperly divert hundreds of millions of dollars to himself, his family and his cronies. The Williamsburg section of Brooklyn seeing that they came back a bit detached and unsure around the heraldry of their service. In December . Mr. Viola started his career in the financial services industry on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange and rose to be Vice Chairman (1993-1996) and Chairman (2001-2004). In the book, Lou Guttman, the previous chairman at the New York Mercantile Exchange, said Viola "exuded leadership. Donald Trumps real net worth? We were always heralded and really, really accommodated. In 2017, their horse, Always Dreaming, won the Kentucky Derby. And from the first day I entered the trading floor, I couldnt believe it, because it had many of the physical characteristics of being around a platoon environment. Rent, food and alcohol sales, parking, etc. The West Point Center for Oral History is a privately funded organization that relies on the generosity of donors. Now, my roommate is a person you should interview for this. So he tells a story about how he was assigned then to a maneuver battalionIm sure as a supply sergeant of some sortfollowing the invasion of Anzio, and he received a V letter from my grandfather, who wasmy grandfather had spent approximately 14 years in the Italian cavalry and horse-drawn artillery and served with a very prestigious Italian artillery regiment and participated in the series of a campaign in the Alps and the Isola Valley in World War I. Mr. Viola is also Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Virtu Financial, one of the nation's foremost providers of financial technology products and services, and former Chairman of the New York Mercantile Exchange (2001-2004). Viola was a former infantry officer who served in the 101st Airborne Division. He was a devout Airborne soldier named Sidney Berry. The Ft L Commissioners lead by Dean to be honest, WERE STAR STRUCK BY PANTHERS LOBBYISTS CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS, but as a Commissioner said to me privately after I protested the proposed deal, Who cares what we do? (except the lobbyists)? I think hewell, I dont know what you would call that. Spring through Firstyeah. And I remember, in 1971, a young soldier from my neighborhood, who my family knew the family, got killed, and he was an infantryman. Everybody violated the honor code, so they were just following the trend kind of thing. In fact, my first company commander is a very, very successful soldier, the class of 1975, Lieutenant General Benjamin Freakley. [14] Prior to and following the Gulf War, Viola earned millions of dollars betting on oil prices. Viola splurged on real estate with stock sale proceeds, buying a beachfront Florida condo and spending $108 million on Arizona's tallest skyscraper. And my dad said to me, Before I pass, I want to go to the village. And so in April of 1980, we went to this villageI had never been therewhere my dad was born. And it was a great point of honor for my grandfatherhe actually left the military as a noncommissioned officer of the Italian Army. Lets come back to the time here at West Point during this period. Vincent Viola was born August 13, 1933 in Brooklyn, NY. Everyone has a different capacity or understanding of it, but the principles of the Academy are overwhelming, and they are sown into you. Join the West Point Center for Oral History's Pipeline Alert. Wonder when the last time the Panthers wrote Broward a rent check? Doctor of Jurisprudence, New York Law School; Bachelor of Arts/Science, United States Military Academy. And so there mustve been cadets who, rather than cheating or stealing themselves, were nonetheless implicated just because they were aware of the fact that it was going on down the hallway. Yep. 954-603-1351, Florida Bulldog We were very, very Spartan and committed to the Academy and to its principles. And you learn them here from the first day youre here. [2] He is the former chairman of the New York Mercantile Exchange , and the founder and chairman of Virtu Financial. Who was Superintendent when all this happened? Viola is a West Point graduate who founded the highly profitable high-frequency trading firm Virtu Financial Inc in 2008, Trump's transition team said in a statement on Monday. I remember the first time I heard an upperclassman kind of bad-mouthing some of the policies of the Academy. He received his juris doctor degree from New York Law School in June 1983,[1][12][13] but did not complete the bar exam. It simply says a cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, nor tolerate those who do. [8], Viola began his business career as a trader in the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) in 1982, raising $10,000 to purchase a seat on the exchange. My dad was three years old, approximately, when they came to America. 7901 4TH ST. N, ST. PETERSBURG, FL 33702. Under his leadership, the Panthers have continued to further these efforts both on and off the ice, including the revitalization of Fort Lauderdale's historic War Memorial Auditorium and construction of a two-sheet team practice and community ice facility-the Baptist Health IcePlex-which will host an array of community hockey and skating programs and increase access to the sport of hockey to thousands of tri-county residents. My management leadership operation, dare I say, capacity, capability, is bounded in the skills around platoon leadership. Many just did it almost as a social activity. So for more than one invasion, he was in the middle of the landing and in the middle of the action. Thats a great point. And the academy was a place where those inputs werent really defining the environment. P.O. TRD Staff. It was much the same as it is now and probably was for many years before: a very concentrated, specific social culture that was extremely singular in purpose. And I rememberand we had to recite, every day, in most classesparticularly mathematics, where we would take positions at our blackboards and solve a problem, and then brief on that problem. Part of that was because we had some former soldiers in the company who were cadets throughout the four classes that were there any time, and part of it was because we had a tactical officerthen was at the rank of major, Major Joseph Kinzer an old-guard Infantry soldier who was a Vietnam combat veteran, a phenomenal infantryman and a fantastic tactical officer. Now, Im sort of casting that, but I remember as a young cadet on a Saturday morning, more than one time having a math professor when we were cadets, Im saying it againwhen I was a cadet, when we were cadets, we attended class six days a weekSaturday til twelve oclock or something, maybe even laterone oclock maybe. Even if he didnt know what he was talking about, he sounded like he knew what he was saying. If you havent interviewed the honor committee, the senior leaders of the honor committee of the class of 77Mike [E.] Ivy, Mike [Burnell] Henryoh goshI think Carl [Axel] Swansonyou need to sit and have hours around the honor scandal. Its the same thing herethis is extremelyin the end its a very insulated, but positively reaffirming, environment. Yeah, I thinknow, I have to qualify this, because I left the Army after five years. Did you know you shouldnt have collaborated? Spring through First Class year summer, yeah. My mom was not sick, but she was an Italian-American housewife. [8] He helped build the NYMEX while he served on the board of directors, as chairman of the Technology Committee, the Natural Gas Advisory Committee and the Facilities Committee, co-chairman of the Options Committee, vice chairman of NYMEX from 1993 to 1996, and chairman from March 2001 to March 2004. It borders on failure or guiltyyou feel like I let down my central purpose, you know. And you went to a public school, I take itis that right? In 2008, Viola founded Virtu Financial, active in electronic market making. So I distinctly remember sophomore year of high school, there was a very spontaneous antiwar demonstration, and there was a small group of us that basically picked up flags in the hallway of the high school and went outside and carried the flags and raised the flags. And so he had to retire with a very small disability pension. Exactly, you know. I think youthis place overwhelms you in a positive sense. I always knew I wanted to be an Infantry officer. According to Forbes, which ranks Violas current real time net worth as $3.4 billion, Viola used the money to splurge on real estate including the $10-million purchase of a pair of beachfront condos in Fort Lauderdales Auberge Beach Residences & Spa. Viola has used his control to create economic in-equivalence in ways that result in Viola and other pre-IPO owners receiving a substantially larger share of the cash distributions from Virtu LLC than the Class A stockholders receive. So the investigation goes on sort of in the Spring semester of the Cow Year. So this family, from thisthey both came from the same village, my mom and dadfrom this little hamlet had over ten persons serving this new country in harms way. They would wear khaki uniforms, and they were called the speed battalion or the speed company. Its very hard to come here and notleave not having a selfless sense of what duty means, what honor is, and the importance of your country. And therefore, thats why the scandal happened. The billionaire owner of the Florida Panthers hockey team, Vincent Viola, is at the center of a Delaware lawsuit that alleges hes used his control of a large publicly traded financial services company to improperly divert hundreds of millions of dollars to himself, his family and his cronies. A few had very committed, intellectually grounded reasons for participating in these protests. So it was not the Korean generation, you were being taught by people who were a little bit older than you are, thensenior officers? Ill veer off to a very interesting story. All NHL logos and marks and NHL team logos and marks as well as all other proprietary materials depicted herein are the property of the NHL and the respective NHL teams and may not be reproduced without the prior written consent of NHL Enterprises, L.P. Vincent Viola And that's very powerful continuum there of an Italian-American immigrant family that, not more than 17 years prior, 20 years prior, had been in that village, and now my dad and three of his brothers were in combat. Vincent "Vinnie" Viola is an American billionaire businessman and U.S. Army veteran. I think the exercise was handed in over the holiday period of 19. Yeah. Viola and his wife, Teresa, sold the places in March for $11.3 million. Are you cool on honor? meant what, though? They had been in companies that basically had been very, very broad in its definition of honor. So you had to be something of a maverick to want to stand up and say, Im going to go to the [United States] Military Academy now, particularly in the middle of the Vietnam Waror actually, at the end of the Vietnam War, even more. I had an enormously fascinating experience around the honor scandal. These outsized distributions to Viola and other pre-IPO owners represent an increase of over 130 percent from the previous two years, while dividends to the Class A shareholders have stayed the same., The complaint goes on to say it appears that Viola and the Board have knowingly used cash that rightfully belongs to the Class A shareholders in ways that benefit Viola and other pre-IPO owners. All donations are tax deductible. And if you did, why? And I guess bring it to the next level of the honor procedure. [6][7][8] His father, an immigrant from Italy, worked as a truck driver after serving in the U.S. Army in the European theater of WWII. I wrote a clumsy letter and sent it out to companies that I looked up at the libraryback in those days, thats what you did. Viola withdrew his nomination two months later citing business conflicts. Now, didare you the first to go to West Point in your family? You have to study battle. My classmates used to tease methey said I had a very, very thick rubber band that was sewed in my back, and it would only stretch up to West Point and then spring back to my neighborhood in Brooklyn. We had war heroes. I appliedI paid someone to write a resume. I hardly remember a classmate saying, Im here because its a free education. If you felt that way, you quickly realized in the first two, three, four weeks that going through this formation, this transformative process, was not worth all the money in the world, and you would move on. Vincent Viola grew up in Brooklyn, graduated from West Point, is a former chairman of the New York Mercantile Exchange and after the Sept. 11 attacks founded a center devoted to combating terrorism. If I remember correctly, when I was a cadet, everyone had to study fluid mechanics, solid mechanics, electrical engineeringthese were the sort of core engineering sciences that everyone had to take, as I rememberlong time ago. [18][6] In 2013, their Upper East Side townhouse was listed for sale at $114 million. And I think that proves in the military service, I mean I think if theres ever been a period where the Academys value to the nation should be celebrated and demonstrated, its the post-Vietnam era til today. Its a very enjoyable year. And in fact, I remember some of my cadet summers actually working to make money to give to my family. Now, the honor code says not only not to tolerate lying, cheating, or stealing, butor does it say something to the effect of or knowledge of?. Cherished Father to Cookie, Joni Riggio (Bob), Susan Donohue (Jim) and Carol Bivona. It caused, for me, a redoubling of my dedication to the Academy. And he just was extremely involved effectively at forming us as officers. And when you arrived here, as you said, the country was undergoing a lot of social turmoil. Vincent J. Viola is the Chairman, Owner and Governor of Sunrise Sports & Entertainment and the National Hockey League's Florida Panthers, as well as Chairman of the Florida Panthers Foundation. I was very blessed. This is what I wanted to ask you, and well close with this question cause we have to stop. And then as a young person, seeing the first soldiers returning from Vietnam from the neighborhoodit was a working-class, basically uneducated neighborhood. And about five minutes into the gathering, I see these adult men crying and grabbing my dad, and lo and behold they had remembered how they were starving, and how in the war he brought them a truckload of food, and actually stood with them for two days, as I remember now. Military Times reported that Viola had been searching for ways to divest from his business ventures, including transferring ownership of the Florida Panthers to his family members and transferring responsibility for operations to Vice Chairman Douglas Cifu. 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