As you may have heard, this Saturday night, Lenny Dykstra will box former co-worker Jose Canseco, in a title fight** that will be live-streamed for your viewing pleasure. Canseco was originally scheduled to go head to head with the husband of a Real Housewives cast member but “graciously” agreed to bow out after Nails “called and begged to take his place against Canseco” who, according to LD, “ruined my career by spreading lies.” All of which got us thinking– since Lenny a) is in serious need of some cash, b) not doing much these days, and c) probably looking to work out some of the aggression he feels toward people who’ve brought his life to the place it is today, perhaps he should consider fighting the other individuals who “ruined” things for him? Continue reading »
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Who Should Pay For Ruining Lenny Dykstra’s Various Post-Baseball Ventures And Hobbies?
By Bess LevinDrunken Fight With Girlfriend Results In Financial Consultant Allegedly Being Sodomized By NYPD
By Bess LevinOne evening in the summer of 2004, Ralph Johnson, a former investment banker who is a current employee of a “financial consulting firm” and a partner in “a precious metals venture,” had a little tiff with his girlfriend, Alison Bongo. The couple was at a “Manhattan nightspot,” when Ms. Bongo “blew up” after Johnson, her live-in boyfriend, “spoke to another woman.”
Back at their apartment, “the argument escalated” (on her end) when Bongo “confronted” Johnson with a bank statement with an “unexplained charge for a hotel room.” Johnson then responded in the way that is most infuriating to females, i.e. with silence. “I tried to talk to him about it and he wouldn’t listen.” Bongo became even more enraged as the silent treatment continued, even after she started “throwing things around and breaking windows.” When Johnson finally reacted, it was by “carrying her to the doorstep and locking her out.” Wrong move! Bongo started banging on the doors and “screaming at the top of her lungs,” so loudly that a neighbor called the police. Six of them broke down the door and found Johnson sitting on the couch.
Naturally, they then proceeded to throw him on the ground, face first. What happens next is in dispute. But perhaps the question a cop nervously asked Ms. Bongo before he left might be able to shed some light, namely, “if there was any reason a video camera would be set up in the apartment”? Continue reading »
Last Night At The US Open, A Heated Debate Broke Out Between Two Spectators Regarding The Root Causes Of The Housing Crisis
By Bess Levin
Yup, pretty sure that’s what happened here. Broheim thinks it was predatory lending, lady friend blames Alan Greenspan’s policies. What? You don’t think that’s what could’ve sparked the increasingly physical argument captured above? If you have an alternative theory or any intel on the situation, please do share it with the group at this time.
In this case the Big Al we’re referring to is Al Gore III, son of the former vice-president, and participant in last night’s charity boxing event. The Strategic Capital Partners employee battled a guy whose nickname is “The Carnivore,” (real name: Ken Cunningham, of Oppenheimer) for three rounds, ending in a TKO. They’re captured here and here. Gore is in red.
A year or so ago, petroleum trader Jeremy Aylmer punched IT executive Charles Cox outside London nightclub Floridita, over a lady. As of last month he was facing manslaughter charges because Cox was knocked unconscious, never came to, and died 20 months later. Today, a court informed him it’s all good.
Aylmer claimed he acted in self-defence and a jury took just 32 minutes to acquit him of manslaughter at Inner London Crown Court. Aylmer, who works for oil giant Chevron, insisted Mr Cox was the ‘aggressor’ during the altercation in the early hours of November 23, 2007. He said Mr Cox had pushed him and swore at him in a row over a woman.
City trader cleared of killing businessman outside West End nightclub [Telegraph via BI]
Earlier: London Trader Facing Manslaughter Charges For Killing A Guy With One Punch
Since Lehman Brothers bit the big one, many people have abandoned Dick Fuld. Former employees, friends, Erin– they all want nothing to do with him. There doesn’t seem to be much to gain in staying loyal to the ex-CEO, other than knowing you’ll never have to wonder whether or not you’re getting an honest answer to the question, does this outfit look like shit? (In fact, you won’t even have to bring it up– Dick will gladly broach that subject.)
So when it was suggested last week that Charlie Gasparino owed David Einhorn and all the critics of Lehman Brothers an apology, for saying that those claiming the bank was in a bad way had no idea what they were talking about, and that, were it to come down to a fight, street or otherwise, he’d have his money Fuld smoking all these fools, some peole might’ve assumed CG would admit the error of his ways and go on record to state that he’d officially stopped returning Fuld’s calls. Unfortunately, these people failed to remember two things: 1) Charlie Gasparino neither makes mistakes nor admits to them and 2) he never, ever turns his back on a friend. For these reasons and more (DF has dirt on CG), Charlie poses an interesting theory in his latest Daily Beast column– the guy preparing the report on Lehman released last week had an interest in making Fuld and Co.’s actions look worse than they maybe were–, that all in all, in said report, Team Lehman didn’t come off that bad and the Dick Fuld? Charlie’s still got his back.
I’ll be the first to tell you that Fuld was a good CEO who over time became arrogant and delusional, and with that allowed his firm to embrace risk in astronomically absurd ways, particularly as Lehman became more successful. Increasingly, he appointed yes men and yes women to senior posts, including Erin Callan, who in my opinion was grossly unqualified to be the chief financial officer of a major Wall Street firm that was rolling the dice on esoteric bonds. [...] But consider this: Valukas, a former U.S. attorney, works for the Lehman estate. It’s his job to get money for the estate to make creditors whole. In doing so, it’s his job to make Fuld & Co. look as culpable as possible in the way they handled the firm’s finances as it slid into bankruptcy.
