As you’re aware, the PR department over at 85 Broad has been working overtime to get people to stop talking trash about how the bank owns the government, would screw a hobo for a nickel, and could just generally buy your life. All of that is for the most part true, but the bad press is starting to grate, so attempts are being made to ingratiate the Masters of the Universe to the peasants like yourselves. Demonstrate that they’re just regular guys with regular problems. So even though, in reality, anyone with a GS ID could get any woman they want, they’ve started to do stuff like pay for sex, and troll for underage tail on the internet, like a common man/Citi employee:
A lawyer for Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs was caught in a sting operation aimed at perverts who solicit young girls for sex, officials said Tuesday.
Todd Genger, 33, is accused of trying to lure an underage teen with explicit chat on the Internet and then traveling to Westchester to consummate the cyber-affair.
In reality, the “girl” Genger was chasing was an undercover investigator posing as a teen in the chat room, the Westchester County district attorney’s office said.
Genger, a Manhattan resident who is married and has three children, was snared after a series of Internet conversations that began April 13 and ended Monday, officials said.
The investigator was posing as a 15-year-old and made it clear “she” was underage, said Lucien Chalfen, a spokesman for the district attorney.
Update: More coverage at Going Concern.
Hmmm, was he also planning to quit and take juicy money-making trade secrets to some other firm?
-Tinfoil
Chris Hansen: “Why don’t you sit down over there…. Wait, are those wine coolers? I guess Ken Lewis bringing Boone’s to his sting wasn’t that unique.”
I have no problem with this.
-jeff eps
You can add purported 15-year-old internet dolls to the list of persons you can’t trust.
-Spitz
After 15 it’s all downhill for the female body.
/my van has no windows
but i’m serious
This is how I’m going to set Lloyd Blankfein up.
-Max W
If there’s grass on the field, let’s play
@7 that comment is in really poor taste.
-jeff/3
Maybe he goes states evidence divulges where all of the bodys are and all of the dirty secrets that Goldman has been doing to ruin America; all this from a little internet ‘sterbation.
I guess George Washington University doesn’t teach criminal law to its budding lawyers.
Mr. Genger was overhead. A service provider necessary for managing an onerous legal structure.
To reduce trafficing in underage women, we need to dismantle the SEC, FINRA, and certain branches of the government (those not appointed).
GS PR Workoout – Session 1
The Genger Affair
@tax chick- certainly true, but did this guy go to gw? and more the point, would gs really hire a gs grad?
He did indeed go to GW for law. So the answer is yes to both of your questions.
Genger rape
Bummer… My new clown costume had just arrived in the mail.
-Todd G
Eh, seems like a nice guy.
- Chris Hanson
Married, with 3 kids, a job at Goldman – and he has the time to go to Westchester for sex with a 15-year-old? Things must be slow this summer in legal at Goldman.
(meanwhile – how is a pedophile released “on his own recognizance”?)
oh – and he’s on Facebook. Perfect.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Todd-Genger/808362220
Genger? I barely know her. *rimshot*
@17 shut your filthy whore mouth.
-LB
@17 I am married with one child I cant find the time at home for a decent throatgaggers.com session; the real mystery to me is how he found the time for a drawn out evolving “relationship” with a “15 y/o”
ol’ Todd’s about to get a lesson in math, 15 will get ya 20
@ 18, i’m guessing he’s th eguy in the middle or on the far left of the picture
@21: “Honey, I’m going to the study, got a lot of extra work to do. Please make sure the children don’t interrupt me”.
-17
Face book favorites/Politicians
Sarah Palin
John McCain
That says it all, especially from a lawyer.
Puhleez, guy works in PWM Compliance, makes IT folks feel like revenue generators.
Guy was an active seller on the internal bulletin board though, recall emailing him for us open golf tix last month. Still has a DVD player listed on the site.
Sanjay aka the IT guy
The Patrick Henry University of Child Rape
was Lloyd B. the puported girl?
@25 Yes, as opposed to democrats, who only prey on successful people.
@29 FTW
PWM Compliance?
Is that Pedophiliac White Man??
Like one of the comments on the original story, this guy is primarily guilty of committing thoughtcrime (sending pics of his junk to a girl claiming to be 15 and interested in seeing it is questionable, but that’s another story).
This entrapment for grandstanding type purposes is highly disturbing.
Analyst – “Sending” photos, “engaging in explicit talk”, and driving to meet the purported underage girl can in no certain terms be construed as a “thought crime” – are you off your rocker?? Your take on this is what is disturbing
- Kuntsler, ESQ
I am so horny right now.
GS Employee #05051994
This guy’s dumber than a box of rocks. How on earth did he ever get thru law school or get a job at Goldman?
Christ, there’s hope for me yet…
when will we see this guy on “to catch a predator”? I love the reactions chris hanson gets when the perps find out they’re on tv. I still laugh when I think about the dude that passed out and hit his head on the counter then gaining consciousness on a stretcher with cuffs.
Anal_yst: He set up an appointment to meet with and be physical with a 15-year-old. The only reason it is “thoughtcrime” and not “statutory rape” is that the person on the other end was a cop and not a real 15-year-old who would actually be harmed.
How is this any different from the guy in North Carolina they just arrested for plotting jihad? They surveilled him, watched him train others, etc. – then arrested him before he did anything like, say, blow up a building and kill people.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/us/29terror.html?_r=1&hp
He has 3 kids. How badly do you think he wants THEM to be in contact with someone like him in a few years when they’re teens?
How you can defend a fucking pedophile and rail against his arrest nauseates me, as a human and as a parent. Do you have little sisters or brothers? Nieces or nephews? Imagine one of them going to meet some mid-30s asshole.
@7
if there’s no grass on the field, play in the mud
@33/37
Was looking to provoke a reaction (see @37), but yea, uber-stupid, at best, on his part.
Math Quiz: How many times does 33 go into 15?
–TG
Anal_yst: why are you backing down now? Provoking a reaction is one thing, so now you’re saying you DON’T think “This entrapment for grandstanding type purposes is highly disturbing”? It’s no longer disturbing to you?
More like you misgauged what you said, similar to how little kids say things like “that’s what I MEANT to do” when it doesn’t go exactly how they planned.
Anal – Just not your day here on DB. Need a hug?
[15sexiprincezz4u] OMG hai lol
43 ftw
@41
GFYS, you cease to entertain me and have thus exhausted your usefulness.
@Tax Chick
Some people are just no fun to f*ck with, apparently.
Am I the only one that hasn’t watch “To Catch a Predator” yet?
- Todd
@43 ftw
@tax chick – I need a hug…
@43 – classic: “um I dunno lol my bff Lauren was like after skool that GS lawyerz were “basically back-office”
even the kiddies know that lawyers are paper pushing b1tches!
awww, Anal_yst, don’t cry, try using your words.
Can someone put Anal on suicide watch? He’s supposed to be one of the good guys, but his analysis makes him sound a little off.
@50
What analysis? I’m the only one who can’t be an insensitive asshole every now and then, wtf sorta BS is that?
awww analyst pew pew, QQ
@43 beat the sh*t out of everyone on this thread. Definitely the winner!
How come Bess’ good friend, Mike Duvally, at Goldman has not emailed yet to “set the record straight”.
Mike are you out there?
Ah, just looking at your picture on Bloomberg makes me weak in the knees…..
@54 what the hell are you talking about?
@55 sometime ago Mike Duvally took it upon his pompous self to try and correct our Blogging Diva Bess Levin, a topic I do not recall, but exposed the comical under belly of Mike and his attempts to shape information as he sees fit…..
got it, ok?
@29 – Most successful people are closet Democrats… throw a rock in a trailer park and you’ll hit a republican these days… thanks to God and Guns.
@55 & 57 DB search feature only goes back so far……
@43… best comment on here in the past month.
“um I dunno lol my bff Lauren was like after skool that GS lawyerz were “basically back-office”
hahahaha, i can’t stop laughing.
58 – 29 here. Perhaps I should have written “liberal” instead of democrat. To your point, either way, that does not stop them from paying more than their share of taxes, regardless of political party. Thanks for stating the complete obvious though.
@ 54 & co. the mouthpiece goes by “Michael,” not Mike, and I think he was straightening Marla out on some finesse point.
Just goes to show you Goldman will really screw anything.
now I know what that “secret sauce” is that makes GS so successful…
At #7: Very true, very true.
Sincerely yours,
Vladimir Nabokov
….But how will companies like Goldman-Sachs be able to retain the “best and brightest,” like Mr. Genger???
Stimulus package at work
Cite as: Matter of Genger, M-4564, NYLJ 1202475297322, at *1 (App. Div. 1st, Decided October 7, 2010)
Before: Saxe, J.P., Acosta,Freedman, Richterand Abdus-Salaam, JJ.
Decided: October 7, 2010
Alan W. Friedberg, Chief Counsel, Departmental Disciplinary Committee, New York (Mady J. Edelstein, of counsel), for petitioner
Law Offices of Michael S. Ross (Pery D. Krinsky, ofcounsel), for respondent.
*1
Disciplinary proceedings instituted by the Departmental Disciplinary Committee for the First Judicial Department. Respondent, Todd William Genger, was admitted to the Bar of the State of New York at a Term of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court for the Second Judicial Department on May 22, 2002.
*2
Per curiam
Respondent Todd William Genger was admitted to the practice of law in the State of New York by the Second Judicial Department on May 22, 2002, as Todd William Genger. At all times relevant to this proceeding, respondent maintained an office for the practice of law within the First Judicial Department.
On February 23, 2010, in the Superior Court, Westchester County, respondent pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted dissemination of indecent materials to minors in the first degree, in violation of Penal Law §§110.00 and 235.22, a class E felony.
During his plea allocution respondent admitted that between December 9, 2008 and June 23, 2009 and between April 13, 2009 and July 27, 2009, he intentionally engaged in a series of computer chat conversations as a means to attempt, importune, invite or induce a person he believed to be a minor to engage in sexual conduct for his benefit. Respondent admitted to engaging in these computer chat conversations with a person he believed to be a 15-year old female, but who was actually an undercover investigator, and that the conversations included discussions of specific sexual acts. On June 29, 2010, respondent was sentenced to a five-year period of probation.
*3
The Departmental Disciplinary Committee now seeks an order striking respondent’s name from the roll of attorneys on the ground that he was disbarred upon his conviction of a felony as defined by Judiciary Law §90(4)(e). Respondent, through counsel, does not oppose the relief sought by the Committee. Respondent was automatically disbarred upon his felony conviction because a conviction for “any criminal offense classified as a felony under the laws of this state” results in automatic disbarment pursuant to Judiciary Law §90(4)(a). Consequently, striking respondent’s name from the roll of attorneys is appropriate pursuant to Judiciary Law §90(4)(b)(see Matter of Kabas, 30 AD3d 34 [2006][attorney convicted of attempted dissemination of indecent materials to minors in the first degree automatically disbarred]; Matter of Stark, 309 AD2d 4 [2003]; Matter of Paladino, 291 AD2d 127 [2002]; Matter of Chilewich, 20 AD3d 109 [2005]).
Accordingly, the petition is granted, as respondent ceased to be an attorney authorized to practice law in New York State upon his felony convictions, and respondent’s name is stricken from the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law in the State of New York, effective nunc pro tunc to February 23, 2010.
All concur.
Order filed.