Stephen M. Ross
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Stephen M. Ross Ross
Stephen M. Ross of the Related Companies, one of the developers chosen by the Pataki administration to turn the main post office in Manhattan into a new transit hub; and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, a Washington-based law firm that has won large lobbying contracts from the state in recent years. The donation from Mr. Ross and the Related Companies was made on March 3, a few days before Mr. Pataki was released from the hospital. Mr. Ross did not return a call seeking comment for this article.