Picture 1797.pngIf Ken Lewis has his way, yes! For the Victorians in Charlotte, this will come as a huge disappointment. For the Hasselhoffs (pictured at left), get psyched. From Bank of Amerillwide HR tips line:

Thought everyone should that George Ellison, the George Ellison whose behavior in Vegas a few years back scarred employees into leaving BAC for UBS (after they were threatened to keep it on the DL), is third in line to take over at Bank of America, having been promoted by Ken Lewis all these years and supported by Lewis no matter what. He’s also overseeing public bailout monies, which are probably going towards hookers and blow.

Update: Don’t break out the blow just yet:

Ellison does not manage the bailout money and he definitely isn’t under consideration to for KLs job. Ellison is a life long investment banker that currently manages structured finances. He lack of corporate banking experience combined with his very well known personal issues will never pass the board.

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Comments (67)

  1. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 1:56 PM

    Kramer: Sorry I couldn’t get out of there, what did I miss? (asking his “intern” Darren)
    Darren: Well, after ordering, Mr. Seinfeld and Mr. Costanza debated on whether or not iron man wore some sort under garment between his skin and his iron suit…
    Kramer: Uh huh…
    Darren: …Then Mr. Seinfeld went to the restroom, at which point Mr. Costanza scooped ice out of Mr. Seinfeld’s drink with his bare hands using it to wash up then Mr. Costanza remarked to me,
    “This never happened.” (Jerry then spits out the water).

  2. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 1:58 PM

    Jesus Christ, Bess — oh wait, you don’t believe in Him — nevermind…
    Fuck, Bess — the perfect opportunity to post a sleazy photo and you have to go all Greg on us. Disappointing

  3. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:01 PM

    this happened in 2005 or 2006, not this past april. not sure why this is coming up now, other than the long dormant litigation finally moving forward. it was big news in the industry back then….

  4. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:01 PM

    George’s 5am scavenger hunt:
    1. Bleach
    2. Lime
    3. Duct tape
    4. Contractor grade garbage bags

  5. Posted by NakedShort | July 23, 2009 at 2:03 PM

    Today we salute you. Mr. Creepy MD who can control himself in Vegas
    Heading to Vegas without the wife and kids you are like a caged beast that has been let back into the wilderness.
    As soon as you hit McCarran you begin crushing frat sodas faster than an 18 year old before his Senior Prom.
    Your keen instinct tells you its a good idea to snort blow out of a strippers asshole, you also end up throwing up in a lady’s handbag on the cab ride back to the hotel.
    So crack open an ice cold Bud Light, Mr. BSD. ‘Cause we all know, the the going gets tough, the tough cant control themselves.

  6. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:04 PM

    Pretty sure ‘unprofessional’ behavior is the only type of behavior that goes down in Vegas strip clubs. What were these guys expecting when they walked in there? An HR sensitivity meeting?

  7. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:05 PM

    In my defence, if you take away all the moral and ethical implications that have been drilled into your head since grade one, do you know what you’re left with? A 105-pound problem that needed to be moved from point A to point B.
    -George Ellison

  8. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:05 PM

    This actually happened in 2002. Nice hot scoop Bess!

  9. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:05 PM

    They have to be running out of places to bury dead hookers in Vegas.

  10. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:06 PM

    This actually happened in 2002. Nice hot scoop Bess!

  11. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:07 PM

    Where is Hotel Room guest on this one!

  12. Posted by Becky Boot Fan | July 23, 2009 at 2:07 PM

    “…some guys just cannot handle VEGAS.” (***eyeing mattress stuck on top of Caesar’s statue***)

  13. Posted by highlyconfident | July 23, 2009 at 2:08 PM

    A stripper was blowing lines off his dick and Ellison refused to high-five everyone who was around cheering him on… clearly BofA lacked “team culture”

  14. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:11 PM

    @14 – you can lose some serious “Spirit Points” with that behavior!

  15. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:17 PM

    Ellison will soon replace Lewis; can’t wait for the annual Las Vegas party. This time with government funds!!

  16. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:18 PM

    @16 his name is def being floated internally to take over. BAC will def improve with the stripper poles.

  17. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:19 PM

    News flash: unethical banker caught with pants down
    Hang him out to dry BofA, hang him high

  18. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:20 PM

    And?
    -Ken Lewis

  19. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:27 PM

    great pic BL

  20. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:29 PM

    Reportedly, Maxine Waters attended the same conference as Ellison…they’ve been friends ever since…

  21. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:35 PM

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
    Ms. Levin, make that picture big, and place it back on the wall!

  22. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:36 PM

    Hey bess and p.e.
    Y’all bought long SPYs Mar. 3 this year as the “Obama Portfolio”. Wasn’t that about Dow 6500? aren’t we at 9150 or thereabouts? You haven’t been giving us updates any more on the “Obama Portfolio.” Did you sell? go short? what? and is Obama up 25% or 30% or what?

  23. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:36 PM

    Please remove that picture of me pounding my secretary in the ass. That was yesterday and it was in the office.
    Thank you

  24. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:36 PM

    That girl in the orange dress. Klassy.

  25. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:42 PM

    Is it Caption Contest Thursday already? I’m not prepared.

  26. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:42 PM

    Is that Hasselhoff or a young Frank Gifford?

  27. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:45 PM

    2.5/10 more like it.
    BlackPoint

  28. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:45 PM

    Look at the skanky chick in the back looking so happy at taking pics with her phone? Can’t stand that, which is what got Michael Phelps in trouble. Leave your phone in your bag, a$$hole.

  29. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:45 PM

    This is just a typical Wednesday evening at the Michaels’ house.

  30. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:45 PM

    @23 i don’t like Obama, but you are right. I hope they don’t puss out and address their snarky mistake.

  31. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:47 PM

    show a dick some respect.

  32. Posted by Anal_yst | July 23, 2009 at 2:49 PM

    @NakedShort is ON FIRE today!

  33. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:50 PM

    @25. Klassy does not start to describe the rivers of Lycra needed to wrap and control the Michelin-man-type belly. The Hoff was surely glad to be able to lend a hand.
    BlackPoint

  34. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:52 PM

    Some seriously doggy chicks in that pic
    ps, ABS/MBS guys are the dirties mofos on the planet….refernce Liars Poker for refresher
    Only exception is a former BofA FIG Group Head who would personally threaten VPs with bonus docking if they didnt bring back min. of 2 hookers two his room….and they had to be big nasty black mamas

  35. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:53 PM

    I really want to make some sex with orange dress girl now.
    Shafeef

  36. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:54 PM

    Does anyone know how many BofA bankers have been “terminated” because of similar alleged behavior? Most of it really in an effort by the company to avoid paying out year-end bonuses. Meanwhile, the top brass keeps living it up southern-style….

  37. Posted by sourceclosetodiscussions | July 23, 2009 at 2:55 PM

    this just in, ashley dupree takes issue with the bofa calling what he did “unprofessional” – it was indeed very “professional”…so I’ve been told.

  38. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:58 PM

    #37
    Know of one female assoc. who got fired for banging the Utog car driver, after x-mas party….
    T&E got her after he billed her 3 hours of waiting time outside her apt at 1 am….

  39. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 2:58 PM

    I wonder what her vajayjay looks like.

  40. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 3:01 PM

    #39….Thanks! That’s my wife you’re talking about. Thought I’d put that story to rest after threatening all employees George Ellison-style.

  41. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 3:07 PM

    I can’t honestly believe Lewis would support this Ellison clown….he’s $20 million bonus target is greater than the combined profits of the groups he oversees….

  42. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 3:09 PM

    where can I find myself such a fine looking woman?
    -KL

  43. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 3:09 PM

    @37 and apparently he’s going to get to be ceo!

  44. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 3:12 PM

    Meep meep … this is making me horny …meep meep

  45. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 3:13 PM

    Why no public scrutiny here over George’s harrassment of women? We almost had a woman in the WH and now we fork over money to this old-school dirt bag. I’m emailing Maxine….

  46. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 3:15 PM

    @6 – easily the best comment i’ve seen on this site this summer

  47. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 3:15 PM

    @46 “Why no public scrutiny here over George’s harrassment of women?”
    because women exist to be treated like objects. Jorge did nothing wrong.
    -KL

  48. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 3:17 PM

    “you also end up throwing up in a lady’s handbag ”
    I don’t know why but I read that as throwing up in a lady’s ribcage. I need to go home.

  49. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 3:17 PM

    @ 47, uh, no it kind of sucked.

  50. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 3:20 PM

    Barney Frank…if you read this….I want to come work for you at BofA. I promise to live up to the great examples set by current executives in Charlotte. PS – I am NOT a woman.

  51. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 3:21 PM

    as #23 I thank you @31. I will drop that question on another thread or two. If Bess and EP got rich on these SPY’s they were supposedly long they should update us every SP 100 up or down or every Dow 1000 up or down, do you think?

  52. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 3:22 PM

    @31 that was a retarded feature started, and perpetuated, by EP, not Bess.

  53. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 3:23 PM

    why is the hoff wearing a huge diamond ring?

  54. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 3:24 PM

    I went to school with the girl in the orange dress. Pretty sure her name is Greg Michaels

  55. Posted by NakedShort | July 23, 2009 at 3:24 PM

    @52 The Obama Portfolio was all EP dickhole, shes gone now; get with the program.

  56. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 3:25 PM

    Boy “George” made his name at the bank by originating loans to strip clubs and then selling them as part of CDOs in Europe. Unfortunately, because of the current economic downswing, the bank today is the largest single landlord of strip clubs in the world…wait, the United States is the single larg….OMG!

  57. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 3:30 PM

    @57 by calling him boy george are you implying he’s a homosexual?

  58. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 3:41 PM

    @56
    Oh the Obama Portfolio, another failed effort by EP to mock the POTUS. I think she actually was playing the market short, not long. But then the pain became unbearable and discontinued the silly feature after many weeks of beatings. The few comments that the Obama Portfolio posts were generating by the end, were mocking her.

  59. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 3:45 PM
  60. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 3:51 PM

    Will Lewis or the board take action on this? This is an embaressment. We are forcing government officials out of office for this type behavior. Perhaps BofA media contact Alison McDonald can explain?

  61. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 6:20 PM

    This guy’s been demoted like twice. Once from head of global structured products (to head of global structured finance). Then from GSF to head of CMBS origination.
    Not goin’ anywhere.

  62. Posted by guest | July 23, 2009 at 6:22 PM

    @62 yep, see the update

  63. Posted by guest | July 24, 2009 at 12:47 AM

    Looks like a scene from Hoff’s new series
    ‘America’s Got Herpes’

  64. Posted by guest | July 24, 2009 at 10:12 PM

    And you didn’t mention gay MD Todd Richter harassing analysts!!!

  65. Posted by guest | July 25, 2009 at 10:24 AM

    No big deal at BofA. At one of the origination units that reports to this guy, we have “morale-boosting” parties for the remaining team on the same day that they lay-off folks. One of the senior MDs routinely acts like a juvenile on steroids. He once grabbed a lady director (who since has been promoted to MD), did the grind and slapped her ass multiple times, right in front of the entire team! No big deal at BofA.

  66. Posted by guest | August 5, 2009 at 10:20 PM

    Does Brille still get two hookers to his room like he did at conference in Vegas a few years ago?

  67. Posted by guest | August 15, 2009 at 7:07 AM

    Hear that Brille may be on the way out as head of banking

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