I missed this from yesterday’s account of why Marc Dreier chose to get into the Ponzi business (9/11 and a house on the beach, mostly). It clearly deserves flagging:
One of the firm’s Christmas parties was held at the Waldorf-Astoria, where Dreier danced wildly to the song “Shout,” from Animal House. At a firm party at his Quogue beach house a plane flew overhead trailing a banner that said, DREIER LAWYERS ROCK.
Once again: thanks for nothing, Bernie. If it weren’t for you and your terribly uninventive $50 billion (or is it $13?) scam stealing the spotlight, the Post et al would’ve been all over MD’s ass, and instead of reading about him dancing to the point of puking and passing out cold, we could’ve been watching the footage.
Otis! He loves us!
Dreier is such an awesome story.
@2 not impressed.
-bernizzle
Scott Wapnep = poor man’s D. Rat?
Wapner
@4/5 hi, stfu AND FOCUS.
-MD
this site has really gone downhill, huh.
@7 yeah no but please continue to read/comment. douche.
dreier + stanford = dream team
@7 hardly.
Bess, forget MD, is this really what you look like?
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/09/i-am-an-amiable-skeptic/
Is that picture of Bess at the end of the NYMag article about Zero Hedge real?
@11 a not at all lifelike illustration clearly based on this http://guestofaguest.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/bess-levin.png
nymag cartoonist fail.
@11 glad we are on the same page. -12
11/12 you need to calm yourself (and see @13).
Do you mind if we dance wif yo dates?
@7 = Dennis Kneale
Starting to question the independence of this news site. Why has there been no coverage of this yet ?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125409393986744897.html
did I miss something, what happened to Rebecca Jarvis??
If somebody mentions the word “snark” in connection with Bess Levin one more time I’m gonna go on a rampage.
Dr. G
“I don’t want to blame it on 9/11 . . . but it certainly didn’t help.”
-T. Fümke
@18 actually it was mentioned in opening bell the other day. but you are right to question the independence of this “news” site. my only question is how did you connect the dots to figure out we’re in the can for Edolphus Towns? that’s some investigative journalism right there.
@18 – Who gives a fcuck? Use your energy to move out of your mother’s basement in Long Island. Douchebag.
CG
@20 agreed. “snark” is such a lame 2004-2006 word.
@19 She failed to fulfill her promise as one of “ten teens who will change the world” and had her charter revoked.
you like that? come to my xmas party this year (again). I’ll show you wild dancing.
-steve c
I’d hit it…
~Barney F.
Read the 7 page Vanity Fair story
Cliff Notes: He is washed up in 2001 after being a tier-3 partner at schlock law firms for 15 years.
He is divorced, broke, and living in Worsthampton. This can happen even with Yale/Harvard law.
He should have married a 20 something summer assocaite, got a ferrari and called it a day.
Or, He should have wired the funds to Latin am country and lived it out there like Marc Rich.
Lawyers are really bad with money…even stolen money.
@6 touch a nerve, did i Scotty?
@28
Thanks, I concurr.
ps, Dreier’s Aston is the rookie Vantage
No not a vintage DB5, a new DB9 or even the Vanquish
Rookie crappy Jag in Drag Vantage
ps, Dreier’s Aston is the rookie Vantage
No not a vintage DB5, a new DB9 or even the Vanquish
Rookie crappy Jag in Drag Vantage
ps, Dreier’s Aston is the rookie Vantage
No not a vintage DB5, a new DB9 or even the Vanquish
Rookie crappy Jag in Drag Vantage
@31/32/33 speaking of “Rookie”…