Put it on the trading floor, or better yet, the lobby and that’ll send a message (“This is how it’s gonna be. You have been warned, so don’t come crying to us when your PM busts out a collar.”).
The art in Aibel (Sender’s curator)’s office at Exis Capital veers into the risque. A photograph by German artist Thomas Ruff depicts a blurry woman in lingerie towering over a man on a leash crawling beside her. Aibel joined Sender in 2006, working alongside curator Todd Levin, who spearheaded Sender’s collection from 1998 to 2008.
Adam Sender Dresses Up Hedge Fund Rooms With Ruscha, Dan Flavin [Bloomberg via BI]
We may have been wrong about Adam Sender, 4’11.5″. Yes, the Exis Capital manager has hideous taste in art. Yes, he’s been known get on a bull horn and tell employees to stop what they’re doing and report to his desk immediately, Bloomberg monitors in hand, and assemble said monitors at his work station so that it looks as though he’s 53-screens important, when photographers come a-calling. Yes, he gets in fights with Great Adventure employees who, merely following protocall, deny him a seat on their rides. Yes, he wears KISS boots on dates “for those extra six inches.” But for all his faults, Adam Sender, 4’11.5″ apparently cares more about the sanctity of human life than about settling a score, which is more than we can say for some of you.
According to Sender’s testimony in the Anthony Pellicano, “Private Investigator to the Stars” wiretapping and racketeering trial, Pellicano, who’d been working for Sender, spying on producer Aaron Russo, offered to kill Russo, and Sender said no. Even though Russo, whose film credits include “Trading Places” and “Bette Midler: Ol’ Red Hair Is Back,” owed Sender $1.1 million. Even though tapped phone calls suggest that Russo was telling friends Sender was 4’11″ (he’s 4’11.5″). EVEN though Pellicano, in a “frightening moment” in 1999, in the garden of Mr. Sender’s mansion in Bel-Air, where Sender barely came eye to eye with the decorative garden gnomes, made it all sound so easy. And yeah, you can probably say it was ’cause Sender knew he wouldn’t survive an hour in the big house, but the bottom line is that on that night in ’99, Sender was the bigger man. An event like that’s not likely to come around again soon, if ever, and so, we’re declaring April 2 Adam Sender, 4’11.5″ Day. In celebration, we move that you take a picture of yourself in front of more Bloomberg monitors than necessary. We’ll put up the submissions as they come in.
Earlier: Sender Snubbed
Offer of a Murder Surfaces at Wiretap Trial [NYT]
I hadn’t been keeping up with this Anthony Pellicano case at all but decided to educated myself after being shamed into it by one of my (many) private investigator friends who called me ignorant for not knowing the facts. So I spent the morning catching up and while I can’t say the story of Tony “P.I. to the stars” Pellicano’s possible use of illegal wiretaps struck me as all that interesting or something to work up a rage about, buried at the very end of one otherwise nothing to write home about article was something so contumelious that rage doesn’t come close to capturing the response it elicited (it’s times like these I really wish we had a two-way web cam situation going on; you could’ve just seen my reaction instead of hearing about it second-hand). It’s a wonder I was even able to pull it together to write this post now, but it’s something so offensive and just downright wrong that you needed to hear about it stat, no matter my mental state: Adam Sender, 5’4 hath been snubbed.
In what can only be described as a smear campaign against the Exis Capital Management founder, some hack at Fox News wrote up an article about the 244 witnesses named for the February 27th racketeering/w’tapping trial and not only took pains to list Tom Cruise’s lawyer, Bette Midler’s former manager, Sylvester Stallone, Kevin Nealon, Garry Shandling, and “Survivor” creator Mark Burnett before Sender, 5’4, who was placed second-to-dead-last and described as being “unknown to the public,” but equated Sender, 5’4, with a secretary (“More Pellicano names on Wednesday, most unknown to the public, such as hedge fund manager Adam Sender and Lilly LeMasters, a former Pellicano secretary”). Outrageous. And, really, just wrong. And something that Sender, 5’4, shouldn’t have to stand for. Since the Lil’ Guy, 5’4, is, we’re told, locked in his Kia sobbing inconsolably (his head just barely clearly the dashboard), we’ll have to take care of this for him. So listen up.
Adam Sender, 5’4, is somebody, and he deserves better billing than this. Here’s our reasoning: forget about the “53 percent return for clients after fees this year.” Forget about the hideous taste in art (a clear indicator of somebodydom, just ask you-know-who). Forget about the Hamptons church he went to battle with Goldman Sach’s Dennis Suskind over to get the place converted into a gallery to house said hideous taste in art. And just remember this:
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