Last month it was lunch with Alan Schwartz, today this:
"Walked by Dick Fuld having lunch with Leon Black at Milos on 55th around 1:30PM. Fuld in full suit & tie. Fuld was hunched over while eating. Black was more relaxed, no tie. Was nodding his head. Things looked friendly."
According a hostess, the duo was still dining circa 2:30 so Fuld must have made quite the impression on his interviewer.
As previously mentioned, if one were inclined to relive the fall of Lehman Brothers, one could do so via the bankruptcy documents that were recently made available online. There you'll find, among other things, countless examples of what has been said so many times since September 15, 2008, which is that it's amazing how delusional the people at the very top were, vis-à-vis the firm's solvency/what people thought of it/everything. Also worth marveling at? The fact that Lehman lasted as long as it did with what appear to be barely literate troglodytes running the place. [The following dialogue is re: CITIC considering an investment in a US bank and the suggestion that it is more interested in Bear Stearns.]
Sleep where the former Lehman Brother CEO hath slept, while he was keeping a low profile post-bank collapse/plotting his comeback.
One tale many love to tell about Richard S. Fuld, besides the one involving him destroying an 158 year-old institution, is that of the time he got into a fistfight at his son's hockey game, with a parent from the opposing team. Though there have been many stories over the years of adults who lack impulse control throwing down at their children's sporting events, perhaps people were fascinated by the fact that the the CEO of a public company was unable to reason that punching someone in the face at a Peewee hockey game = bad, keeping your hands to yourself = good. On that note, one sports fan reports that Fuld has since matured, and realizing his own limitations, now travels with protection (for himself/spectators in his section). "Was at the Rangers/Devils game last night sitting a few rows behind Dick Fuld and his wife. He was with two goons who were clearly his body guards, one sitting next to him in a tan jacket and the other one standing behind him in black. Fuld was wearing a suit...I guess to try and look like he actually has a job he was coming from befoe the game."
