The Koz has a new appeal pending before a federal judge in Manhattan, re: whether or not he was denied a fair trial because he “didn’t have access to prosecutorial evidence that might have helped his defense.” He’s four years into his sentence, a pretty vague 8 to 25 years and honestly? He doesn’t like prison life that much. “Horrible,” is how the Koz describes it. It’s not really laundry duty that gets to him, or the lack of birthday party/shareholder meeting/Roman orgies that feature ice sculptures pissing Vodka. What really kills DK is the assholes who smoke during his allotted time in the yard. “It’s nice if you like standing around breathing second hand smoke for two hours,” he told Fortune. Also, he finds it “galling” that Dick Fuld et al aren’t behind bars and yet here he is, having not done that much wrong, sucking in carcinogens.
Archive for November 2009
Danielle Chiesi who, as previously mentioned, was named Miss Southern Tier Teenager in 1981. Still waiting on some shots from her fishnet days.
Ever since Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam went down for insider trading, and one of his biggest accomplices, Danielle Chiesi went down with him, we’ve been using the picture at left of the latter (one of the few available). And every single time we’ve done so, we’ve immediately received a flurry of emails imploring us to find a better one, not simply because the photo in question hurts some people on a deep level but because, according to the senders, Danielle Chiesi was once super hot. “Like insanely hot,” more than a few told us, begging that we find a replacement because they’d already told their co-workers how good looking she was, and credibility was on the line. Regrettably, despite putting in a few minutes of hard work Google Image searching, we were unable to find find any evidence that these guys could bring to the table in an effort to prove they did not have a thing for the Bridget Nielsen (Flavor Flav Years) of the finance industry. Today, they are saved. Bloomberg reports that Danielle Chiesi was named Miss Southern Tier Teenager in 1981. Unfortunately, Bloomberg did not include a photo of DC at the time but no matter– apparently one of her wearing a tiara exists and while we wait for someone to find it and send it here, let’s get to know the beauty queen a bit better. (For those of you looking to make a splash, consider taking a page from Chiesi’s playabook.)
Starting with the fishnets.
Chiesi wore short skirts and low-cut tops, according to people who saw her over the years. When she worked at New York brokerage Furman Selz LLC in the early 1990s, she would show up in a tight red suit with red fishnet stockings, says a person who worked there at the time.
Which some people seem to have had a problem with.
Chiesi used her sexuality to build sources at male-dominated tech companies, says Deborah Stapleton, president of Stapleton Communications Inc., an investor relations company in Palo Alto, California. “It amazes me that grown, wealthy, successful, hardworking men fell for that,” Stapleton says. Chiesi was proud of her network, too. “She bragged about her contacts in public,” Stapleton says. “She was like a teenager who wanted everyone to know she knew some rock star.”
The knockers with a heart of gold.
“Danielle was really social, gregarious and popular,” says Stacey Maggio, a sorority sister. “She was a knockout with a big heart.”
Horizontal dancing.
$$$ Morgan Stanley’s $9,000,000,000.00 Check. [Andrew Ross Sorkin]
$$$ The Media Is Wrong About Goldman Sachs, AIG [The Atlantic]
$$$ Steel Wins Dismissal Of Icahn Bid To Block Restructuring [FINalternatives]
$$$ Felix Salmon and Henry Blodget Have a Fight, Make Up [Daily Intel]
Alright people. This is it. If the sight of Goldman Sachs employees voluntarily handling garbage doesn’t stop the hate, they’re going to have to go to DEFCON 1: blow job booth, manned by Blankfein.
The Salvation Army plans to serve 10,000 free dinners across the city this Thanksgiving — meals planned by a star chef, cooked by one of New York’s ritziest caterers and cleaned up by employees of one of Wall Street’s most vilified financial firms. The number of meals is 10 times as many as last year and come at a time when more and more Americans are struggling to put food on the table.
Three hundred employees of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Wall Street’s richest firm, have volunteered for the holiday feast and will be tasked with taking out the garbage.
Partying it up at the Palm’s Hugh Hefner Sky Villa with ex-Tudor Jones trader Mark Fisher didn’t take away from Dr. J’s ability to make $15,000 in three hours, for a program that teaches disadvantage kids to someday have trading prowess like The King. If you missed the chance to donate some of your gains on drug stocks ($MRK or $PFE) today, no worries, there’s still time to help create the next mini-me Fast Money crew here.
And if for some reason if you still need more motivation to give (around $26k has been donated so far but we’re counting on you to make it more)- we’re told Paris Hilton is stopping by the event’s after-party and will sign any part of your body if you give. For those not currently in Vegas, Dr J will take the Paris body signature in your name and send you a photo.
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To: Morgan Stanley
From: John Goff
RE: Thanks a billion
OK, OK, thanks $951 million. It was really great to have you take this albatross off my hands a couple of years ago. The timing could not have been better for me. And now, after your outstanding stewardship, I’m pleased to retake the helm at Crescent Real Estate Equities Co. now. Two-and-a-half years sitting by the pool, counting your my $6.5 billion is enough.
My new partners at Barclays want to thank you as well. They’ve proven pretty savvy over the last couple of years, but even they couldn’t have imagined how well this would turn out for them. After all, they lent you $2 billion to buy a disaster. They never would have guessed they’d get to take over such a valuable real-estate portfolio just as the market begins to turn around.
- Use the Bloomberg command
NH BLG_DEALBREAKER <GO>
to access Dealbreaker
