Hubris Takes a Holiday

The movie Gladiator was playing on a big screen above the dance floor at Conscience Point as a blond go-go dancer, one of a dozen working the Southampton nightclub for the summer, gyrated up on the edge of a banquette.

Clad in a skimpy, shredded One Million Years B.C. bikini, she didn’t have much Read More

Christian Curry Comes Back: Wall Street Pariah Catches a Break

The job market must be really brisk, because Christian Curry is back on Wall Street.

Nearly two years after he was fired from Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, then arrested by police for trying to hack into the firm’s computers, Mr. Curry, 26, has landed at Gardner Rich & Company, a small Chicago-based institutional Read More

Morgan Stanley’s Season in Hell

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, which might be the best investment bank on Wall Street, had a lousy summer.

If you didn’t know a thing about investment banking (which would put you on a par with a few top investment bankers), you could have scanned the summer’s headlines touting a series of scandals at Read More

Manhattan D.A. Dismisses Morgan Stanley’s Charges Against Hotshot Employee

Officials from Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company paid $10,000 to set up a former employee for computer fraud, then withheld information about the payments from prosecutors, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office has concluded.

After a nine-month investigation, Assistant District Attorney Leroy Frazer moved on May 18 in Manhattan Criminal Court to have all charges Read More