Monday, April 9, 2012

These 13 Stories Of Psychotic Banker Behavior Will Make You Want To Get Far, Far Away From Wall Street


From BusinessInsider: Today, Vincent McCrudden, the man who threatened 47 government officials on his website and via e-mail, was sentenced to 2 years and four months in prison, according to Bloomberg.

Here's an excerpt from one he sent back in 2010:
McCrudden wrote in a Sept. 30, 2010, e-mail to Daniel A. Driscoll, chief operating officer of the National Futures Association, that he had hired people to kill him. “It wasn’t ever a question of ‘if’ I was going to kill you, it was just a question of when,” McCrudden wrote. He sent the e-mail from Singapore over Gensler’s name.

It's shocking stuff, but we barely raised an eyebrow. Why? Because in our business (the business of following Wall Street) you see a lot of crazy people do a lot of crazy things.

1) The trader who killed an IT boss with one punch to the face - Jeremy Aylmer, a trader who worked for Chevron, was hanging out at a London club. At one point during the night he walked up to Jemina Luizaga to do a little flirting but got rejected. Alymer went up to Luizaga again later. It was at that point that 56-year old Charles Cox, formerly a VP of the IT firm EDS, told Alymer to buzz off….

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There's more at: http://www.businessinsider.com/these-13-shocking-stories-of-psychotic-banker-behavior-will-make-you-want-to-get-far-far-away-from-wall-street-2012-4

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