Write-Offs: 06.05.13

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$$$Ex-SAC Manager Martoma Faces Nov. 4 Insider-Trading Trial [Bloomberg]

$$$Brazil Woos Wary Investors [WSJ]

$$$Fed’s Beige Book Shows ‘Modest to Moderate’ Growth in U.S. [Bloomberg]

$$$How Jason Hall Went From Struggling Actor To Hot Screenwriter With American Sniper: "...It started when Dan Loeb, the billionaire founder of the hedge fund Third Point (who lately has been viewed a potential player in a possible sale of Sony Entertainment assets) was looking to help out his friend Chris Kyle, the sniper who had just come home in 2009 with the most confirmed kills in U.S. military history. He told Hall about him and it sounded like a good enough movie subject that Hall headed to Texas, where former killing machine Kyle ran seminars on guns and hunting. “It was a weekend course, you got brush-up training in firearms, you went hunting, and you drank a lot of beer,” he said. “It was Kyle, 50 cops, and me. I’d never been to Texas and I’m dropped into this room with a sniper and 50 of his closest Ranger friends. I didn’t drink like they did, and while I talked to Chris a bit, the vibe was, I don’t trust this kid. I thought, why isn’t he talking to me? I only realized until later why. He’s a sniper, man, and they sit back and they wait.” [Deadline]

$$$Rhode Island Woman Sics Pit Bulls on TV Reporter [Daily Intel]

$$$European Oversight of Libor Considered [WSJ]

$$$The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century: Data Analyst [CNBC]

$$$ A Los Angeles-area attorney has been arrested on charges he and fellow party-goers trashed a hotel suite at the Encore earlier this year, causing nearly $100,000 in damages. Police say 45 year old Ronald Pearman of Encino, California was drunk and was abusive to police and hotel personnel when confronted with an array of destruction in the massive luxury suite room at the South Las Vegas Boulevard resort. There was shattered glass, food-stained, ripped-up carpeting, destroyed bedding and broken furniture. The incident occurred March 30th. Police say Pearman was the registered guest and there were at least 5 other intoxicated guests in the suite with him at the time. The police report quotes Pearman as claiming he was an attorney and that he would–quote– "depose Steve Wynn and turn this place into napalm." [CBS]

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