Mavericks Owner MARK CUBAN is helping former NBAer DELONTE WEST, who has "battled substance abuse and homelessness." Cuban yesterday "picked West up at a Dallas gas station." A source said that Cuban "put West up in a hotel and is offering to help pay for substance abuse treatment." The report indicated that Cuban had been "trying to contact West for days" (FT. WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM, 9/29).
NAMES: CNBC’s Robert Frank reported when NFL Panthers Owner DAVID TEPPER moved from New Jersey to Florida in '15, New Jersey’s budget director called it a "new forecast risk because of the amount of taxes that that one taxpayer paid." Now Tepper is "back just in time for New Jersey's latest tax hike and New Jersey State Senate President STEVE SWEENEY saying Tepper called him to say he moved back to New Jersey in January and that ‘you got an extra $120 million coming from me.’" That means the state’s "new 10.75% tax rate on Tepper’s comp of over $1 billion last year would be around $120 million” (“Squawk Box,” CNBC, 9/29)....A class-action lawsuit was filed yesterday against Lockheed Martin on "behalf of Golf Channel employees who worked close to the site" in Tangelo Park, Fla. The 11 Golf Channel employees listed in the complaint "worked at the company in the period from 1994 to 2020" (ORLANDO SENTINEL, 9/29).
