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The breakdown in negotiations may prove more damaging for the site's developer, Larry A. Silverstein, whose demands at the bargaining table enrage a governor who had stuck with him through much of the contentious rebuilding process. And by annoying the governor, Mr. Silverstein may have lost his most powerful ally. New York City officials have long grumbled that Mr. Silverstein who leased the World Trade Center six weeks before it was destroyed was given such a prominent role in deciding what gets built on the site of the September 11, 2001, attack. Larry A. Silverstein, whose demands at the bargaining table infuriated a governor who had stuck with him through much of the contentious rebuilding process. New York City officials have long grumbled that Mr. Silverstein -- who leased the World Trade Center six weeks before it was destroyed -- was given such a prominent role in deciding what gets built on the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack. Mr. Silverstein recently hired Michael McKeon, Governor Pataki's former spokesman, as a consultant, adding him to a team that already included William Plunkett, the lawyer whose firm once employed both Mr. Pataki and Mr. Pataki's chief of staff, John P. Cahill, who now oversees Lower Manhattan redevelopment.