Month: December 2008
21 posts
Gary Weiss, Psychopath & Scaramouch (Portfolio Magazine)
Summary – For over 10 years Gary Weiss (once a reporter with BusinessWeek, and recently, a columnist with…
Deep Capture named finalist for best business blog of 2008!
Yesterday we received an unexpected bit of good news: Deep Capture is a finalist in the competition for…
Fortune Magazine Stonewalls Exposure of Bethany McLean Perfidy
Summary – This post contains two emails I sent Fortune Magazine regarding Deep Capture’s work documenting an inappropriate…
December 30, 2008
A hedge fund suite for Richard Sauer
In a recent interview, SEC whistleblower Gary Aguirre offered his insights into the regulatory failings that allowed the…
December 29, 2008
Spyro Contogouris and the gentle art of hedge fund persuasion
Among the disturbing facts contained in the recently unsealed documents obtained via discovery in the Fairfax Financial (NYSE:FFH)…
December 24, 2008
Rocker Partners and Bethany McLean: the smarmiest guys in the room
the evidence shows that Rocker Partners hedge fund first approached Bethany McLean about Fairfax on December 7, 2006. Bethany then met with Rocker Partners employee (and former SEC attorney) Richard Sauer 11 days later, and presumably began work on what would become her March 6, 2007 article The inside story of a Wall Street battle royal shortly thereafter.
The word on TheStreet.com
One of the central theses of The Story of Deep Capture, Mark Mitchell’s epic work of media criticism,…
December 18, 2008
Introducing John Hempton: the Plunderer from Down Under
While an examination of the recently-unsealed products of discovery in the Fairfax Financial (NYSE:FFH) vs. SAC Capital, el al, lawsuit reveals the extensive involvement of most all the usual players -- both in the world of hedge funds and business journalism -- one name, mostly unknown to those outside Fairfax circles, appears quite prominently: John Hempton of Sydney Australia.
Bethany McLean: your benefit of the doubt is hereby revoked
There’s no sense denying it: reporters depend on sources, and in the mind of most business journalists, a…
December 16, 2008
Carol Remond Tells a Joke She Doesn’t Get (DowJones)
Summary – Carol Remond recently wrote a defense of the meltdown of Rocker Partners (a.k.a. Copper River), her…
December 15, 2008