By Ryan Chittum
Jeffrey Verschleiser is in the news for renting out the entire
ninety-four room Hotel Jerome this weekend for his daughter’s bat
mitzvah.
Who’s Jeffrey Verschleiser?
Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi revisits the tale, reported by Teri Buhl
in The Atlantic last year, of the former Bear Stearns executive who
now works high up in Goldman Sachs and is being sued, along with his
former and current employers, by the Federal Housing Finance Agency
for fraud.
Verschleiser securitized toxic mortgages, sold them to investors,