President-elect Donald Trump picked Howard Lutnick, the head of brokerage and investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald and a known cryptocurrency enthusiast, as his nominee for Commerce Secretary. Lutnick’s life was forever changed on September 11, 2001, when his brother Gary Lutnick, along with 658 of his colleagues, was killed in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
Cantor Fitzgerald was headquartered on the 105th of the North Tower. The company had five floors in the North Tower of the World Trade Centre in New York. At 8.46 am, the first plane – American Airlines Flight 11 – hit the building just below the Cantor offices. By then, 658 employees were already at work, none of them survived.
One employee was not at his desk that morning. The employee was CEO Howard Lutnick, he was not in office as it was his son’s first day of kindergarten, and Lutnick had gone to drop him off.