Seattle may not be a sad sack sports town on the level of Cleveland, but its hard to begrudge Emerald City sports fans much of anything, given the largely irrelevant histories of the Seahawks, the Mariners, to say nothing of that time the Supersonics left town for better opportunities in Oklahoma City. So we can Read More
Why don’t you go ahead and make a federal case of it, said one thousand husbands to one thousand wives, and then one of them went and did. On July 9, a Scarsdale resident named Elizabeth Bingham-Perry filed a civil RICO action in the U.S. Southern District’s White Plains courthouse.
Her husband, Jeffrey, an executive Read More
How angry an ex would you have to be to file racketeering charges against your spouse?
That’s a question Elizabeth Bingham-Perry could answer. The Scarsdale resident filed a civil RICO action against her husband Jeffrey Perry in the U.S. Southern District’s Westchester courthouse last week.
Mr. Perry, it so happens, is an executive at Third Read More
Someone finally wrote the story that’s been the talk of baseball and banking circles ever since Guggenheim Partners CEO Mark Walter (over)paid $2.175 billion for the Dodgers in April: That what was good for the McCourts of Los Angeles might be even better for the Steinbrenners of Tampa. Indeed, the Daily News posits that Read More
Billionaire Steven A. Cohen is poised to follow his recent legal reprieve with a huge lease at 510 Madison Avenue.
After months of speculation, his mercurial hedge fund, SAC Capital, is near a deal to take 66,000 square feet, or the second through fifth floors, multiple sources said. Rumors of the deal have been swirling for months, but a lawsuit Read More
“They better be fucking confident that they’re right before they destroy reputations,” a major New York hedge fund manager was saying just before midnight on Monday. Attorney General Eric Holder had confirmed an investigation of Wall Street that afternoon, 10 days after The Journal had broken news of a three-year insider-trading probe that “could eclipse Read More
The massive FBI probe into insider trading reported this weekend is already causing major headaches up in Connecticut. The Wall Street Journal is
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Earlier this month, a story splashed across the front page of the Post warned that representatives from more than a dozen New York City hedge funds had “crossed the border” to meet with Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell. Over fried calamari, the governor reportedly pitched the executives on moving their businesses to her state: Read More
