The six-day event — known as the “Tournament of Champions” — ended Jan. 29 and drew about 200,000 fans to what was billed as one of the “world’s premier squash championships” at the same time as lawmakers on Capitol Hill were denouncing wasteful Wall Street spending.

Reps at JPMorgan Chase declined to specify how much it spent on the tournament, but a source close to the deal told Fox News Channel it was roughly $100,000.

American Express officials also declined to provide an amount, but the company is believed to have spent $25,000, a source told Fox News Channel.

Adalind’s first steps. Adalind’s first New York City pizza. Adalind’s first kiss with Mom.

Now the 39-year-old Charlotte, NC, man fears the cherished footage – stored on his cellphone — is somewhere on the bottom of the Hudson River.

He had to leave the device behind during the scramble to escape miracle US Airways Flight 1549, which crash-landed in the icy Hudson River Jan. 15 after both engines lost power upon colliding with a flock of geese.

“I’m very upset, disappointed and frustrated,” said Peltz, who was never able to make backup copies of the 40 videos of his daughter, now 2.

“It was important to me. It was important to my entire family.”

Peltz is among a slew of passengers forced to leave behind keepsakes in the chaos, including love letters and lucky charms.

They are items the airline’s offer of $5,000 per passenger cannot replace, and many fear that when their luggage is returned the water damage will have already taken too big a toll on the treasures.

Vallie Collins, of Maryville, Tenn., another of the 150 passengers rescued, is missing a stack of love letters her husband wrote when he was courting her.

The 37-year-old mother of three would read the missives, which she had tucked in a binder, whenever she traveled to reminisce about the days a decade ago when her husband, Steve, wooed her.

It’s especially time to kill those geese most likely to wreck another jet airliner, much as a gaggle of Canada geese seems to have brought down US Airways Flight 1549 Thursday.

This time, all 155 passengers and crew were lifted from the icy Hudson River — an extraordinarily exceptional outcome.

Next time? Who knows.

Canada geese are a serious threat to human life and property — not to mention a major pain to pedestrians, motorists and folks who just like to spread a picnic blanket in a park.

Obviously, the official cause of the crash won’t be declared for a while. But nobody doubts that it was what pilots call a “bird strike” — just as nobody doubts that the guilty birds were Canada geese.

That’s because Canada geese are everywhere — and they’re out of control.

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Beyond airport vicinities, it’s even harder to tamper with geese (let alone kill them) — even as they coat parks and playgrounds everywhere in layers of disgusting goose poop.

This is unsightly, unsanitary — and totally unacceptable.

“For the cost of this one accident, I could put this system in every major U.S. airport,” said Gary Andrews of radarmaker De-Tect Inc.

The bird-detection radar system is in place at six U.S. Air Force bases and is being installed at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport.

It could have alerted Flight 1549 pilot Chesley Sullenberger that dangerous flocks of geese were in his flight path.

“Nothing is foolproof, but it would have likely spotted the geese,” Andrews said. “The pilot could have tried to avoid the flock, or they could have told him to hold on the ground.”

Radar or no, the tug-of-war between planes and birds is unlikely to end anytime soon.

Experts say they have tried everything from scarecrows to fireworks. They say there is no surefire way to eliminate the dangers posed by flocks of birds near airports.

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Geese experts and animal advocates say the measures are wrongheaded, cruel and — most importantly — ineffective.

A group called Geese Peace says the Port Authority mostly ignored its 2004 plan that included destroying prime nesting grounds and eliminating goose-friendly grassy areas.