I don’t know what could possibly heal the gaping wound on our hearts inflicted by the footage of Jim Cramer appearing genuinely upset over Eliot Spitzer’s love of whores, but this is good start: apparently James Cayne paid $28 million for his new 6,000 square foot home at the Plaz. Cash.
Posh Plaza purchase [PageSix.com]
10-pound bag of Chronic Supernova, consider yourself bought. Thousands of former Bear Stearns Cos. (BSC) employees will share a $10 million settlement of lawsuits claiming they lost money on the bank’s stock in their retirement accounts. Two ex-Bear Stearns employees yesterday asked a federal court judge in Manhattan to approve the settlement on behalf of an estimated 8,400 former colleagues. The settlement will resolve class-action suits filed beginning in 2008 against Bear Stearns and other defendants by former employees of the bank. The employees, participants and beneficiaries of Bear Stearns’s employee stock ownership plan who held shares of the bank’s common stock, claimed risky investments in subprime mortgages caused them to lose money. Ex-Bear Stearns Employees to Get $10 Million in Settlement [Bloomberg] Related: Jimmy Cayne Takes “It’s A Bag Of Oregano” Route In Face Of Drug Use Allegations
This news brought to you by former International Monetary Fund chief-turned-alleged aggravated pimp Dominique Strauss-Kahn.