Wang's Lighthouse project: Slow going from the start
Photo credit: Joel Cairo | Charles Wang listens at a public zoning hearing for the Lighthouse project in Hempstead on Tuesday.
Billionaire businessman Charles Wang had never seen an ice hockey game and knew more about computer chips than hockey pucks when his friend, former Sen. Alfonse D'Amato called him in 1999 with an improbable request.
Buy the New York Islanders, D'Amato urged, saying Wang could help keep the team, the Island's only professional sports franchise, in their Nassau County home.
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