TASK DEFINITION: Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: Only days after the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was signed   New York developer Steven Witkoff  announced that  he  is now surging ahead with  his  plans to complete the Fontainebleau resort in Las Vegas  Bloomberg Politics reported.
âNow  weâre not going to be patient â  Witkoff  told Bloomberg. âWeâve basically pressed the âgoâ button to do everything necessary to finish design on the project and take down a construction loan.â
 The developer  added that as soon as he saw the bill was going to become law  he was ready to ease off the brakes. He quickly launched an effort to restart his financing process for the estimated $3 billion he needs to finish the project.
 Witkoff  also noted that an important benefit in the tax reform law that allows full and immediate expensing of capital investments spurred him to immediate action. He also insisted to Bloomberg that the new tax law will spark great economic activity in the U.S.
âYou can just feel it â  Witkoff  said. âYou can feel the pent-up fervor thatâs happening out there  and  it  hasnât even seeped through the system yet. And Iâm not a Republican ideologue  for Godâs sake.â
The Fontainebleau was about 70 percent complete when billionaire Carl Icahn bought the stalled project out of bankruptcy in 2010. The site was idle until last year when  Witkoff  began toying with jumping in to finish the building. But  until now  going was slow with an uncertain economy and a slow commercial property market dogging the project.

SOLUTION: Steven Witkoff

PROBLEM: Sam Querrey gave the United States a winning start in its bid to reach Saturday's final at the World Team Cup.
 Querrey beat Jan Hajek 6-3  7-5 on Thursday to put the U.S. 1-0 up against the Czech Republic in the Red Group and remain unbeaten in his three singles this week.
 "So far so good " said Querrey. "I thought today was the best I played out of the three matches. So I'm pretty excited."
 Hajek claimed the first break  when Querrey ended a long rally with a forehand error  to go 3-1 up but the American player responded by winning the next five games in a row to take the opening set.
 Both players saved a break point late in the second set before Querrey broke at 6-5  converting his third match point.
 "I've been working this week to try and hit my forehand a little bigger. I felt I did that today " said Querrey. "I felt pretty much anytime I got a forehand  I was able to take control of the point."
 Querrey said his win takes the pressure off the U.S. ahead of Friday's matches.
 "A little bit  yes. I think John (Isner) can go out there and play a little more freely  which is a good thing " Querrey said. "When we have the lead  you can swing away a little bit more than if we were 1-0 down.
 "Then  the Bryan brothers  we expect them to win every match. Hopefully  they are going to do that again."

SOLUTION: Sam Querrey

PROBLEM: Steve Rannazzisi  didn't sound like someone putting on a show.
"I was sort of the party starter of Merrill Lynch "  he  said in an interview in 2009. "Until our building got hit with a plane."
Without tears or theatrics   Rannazzisi  went on to explain that  he  was working on the 54th floor of the south tower of the World Trade Center on the morning of Sept. 11  2001.  He  felt the impact of a plane ramming into the first tower and ran outside to see what was happening. When the building began to crumble  "I just started f_ing booking it "  he  told Maron.  He  stopped just in time to turn around and see the second tower collapse.
When  he  and  his  fiancÃ©e â who was supposed to be working in the towers but was still on the subway when the planes hit â got home  they decided to leave the city for Los Angeles  a decision  Rannazzisi  often credited with jump-starting  his  career.
"I still have dreams of like  you know those falling dreams "  Rannazzisi  said.
But  Rannazzisi 's account was no more real than those dreams. This week  the New York Times uncovered that the 37-year-old comedian  a star on the FXX show "The League " was working several miles from the site of the attacks that morning. Confronted with this story  he issued an apologetic series of tweets Wednesday.
 Rannazzisi  isn't even the most famous person to have publicly pretended to have survived 9/11.
In fact  to Angelo J. Gugliemo Jr.   Rannazzisi 's account sounded a lot like one he had heard from his friend Tania Head  the former president of the World Trade Center Survivors' Network. Like  Rannazzisi   Head spoke of working for Merrill Lynch on the morning of 9/11. Like  Rannazzisi   she said she had a fiancÃ© who worked in the towers (though he was killed in the attacks).
Like  Rannazzisi   Head wasn't telling the truth.
Though some lies have obvious tangible benefits for the teller  the impulse that drove Head  Rannazzisi and others to make up their stories is more complicated. Neither Head nor  Rannazzisi  wrote books or sought compensation from a survivor's fund. Neither gained any kind of obvious advantage for framing themselves as a victim.
Head  who still hasn't admitted to fabricating her story despite evidence that she was taking classes in Spain on that day  won't say why she made it up. According to his tweets   Rannazzisi  doesn't know.
Psychologist Christopher Chabris  who studies false memory  said that  Rannazzisi 's story isn't a case of someone mistakenly remembering something that didn't really happen. It's about inserting one's self into a narrative that's already getting a lot of sympathy.
The psychology behind that explanation for liars is as complicated as the stories they tell. Neither  Rannazzisi  nor Head is quite a pathological liar â there's no evidence that they have a chronic compulsion to tell falsehoods  other than this one big one. Neither do they appear to have been suffering from false memories (as some psychologists argued about Brian Williams  who inaccurately claimed to have been shot down while reporting in Iraq).  Rannazzisi  tweeted that  he  wished for many years  he  could take back  his  story  knowing that it was untrue.

SOLUTION:
Steve Rannazzisi