John Catsimatidis
United States
Republican
government
John A. Catsimatidis is an American billionaire businessman, radio talk show host, and actor. He is the owner, president, chairman, and CEO of grocery chains Gristedes and D'Agostino Supermarkets in Manhattan, as well as the Red Apple Group, a real estate and aviation company with about $2 billion in holdings in New York, Florida and Pennsylvania. He is also the chairman and CEO of the Red Apple Group subsidiary United Refining Company.
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Sep 14, 2026
Far Left
The Gristedes grocery chain CEO is named among those who warned of wealthy New Yorkers panicking over new taxes on the rich in New York State.
For the left, Catsimatidis is the neighborhood grocery oligarch who plays victim over modest tax increases while his workers face rent and food costs he helps set, a reminder that the billionaire class treats marginal taxation as existential class war.