It was the third contract killing of a Moscow hotel boss in 15 months.

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Back in June the Las Vegas Review Journal reported on a 1996 incident in which Berkley, then working for the Sands Hotel, advised her boss to give a job to the uncle of a Clark County commissioner in order to win the official's support for a new hotel project.

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As the assistant to the VP of her company, she accompanied her boss in the elevator to the fourth floor of the Doubletree Hotel.

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On the morning of September 21 or 22, Hilary Schneider, Greg Mrva, and Yahoo media boss Jimmy Pitaro met with Patrick and Mike for breakfast at a hotel just off Times Square in New York.

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Jenkins was axed by Welsh Rugby Union chief executive Roger Lewis and chairman David Pickering at the team hotel on Sunday and Turner has some sympathy with the former Scarlets boss.

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Mr Sternlicht had certainly clarified who was boss, but the thinning of the top ranks made reorganising Starwood harder, given his limited experience of the hotel business.

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