How’s this for a very odd tale:
Entertainer who worked controversial bachelor party says client who hired him wants him again.
BOSTON (Dow Jones) – A dwarf who worked a March 2003 bachelor party thrown for ex-Fidelity Investments trader Thomas Bruderman said Thursday that one of the clients who hired him for that event wants to hire him again, this time for a party in the Bahamas this very weekend.
Danny Black, who in August testified before a federal grand jury looking into whether Fidelity traders accepted lavish gifts from brokers looking for business, said the client wants him to "serve drinks poolside" and engage in " general shenanigans" at the Bahamas event, which is a birthday party for the client’s wife.
Black declined to name the client, but a July Wall Street Journal article citing people familiar with the matter said that Jefferies Group Inc. (JEF) paid for a plane associated with Bruderman’s bachelor party in Miami’s South Beach. SG Cowen & Co. paid for a yacht cruise and Lazard Capital Markets paid for some hotel rooms, the Journal reported.
In November 2004, news emerged of a probe by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the National Association of Securities Dealers into issues surrounding gifts and gratuities involving mutual-fund giant Fidelity and other firms. The New York Times reported in May that the U.S. attorney in Boston was looking into the gift issue.
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Source:
Fidelity dwarf says he’s in demand
Dow Jones Newswires, November 4, 2005: 7:50 AM EST
http://money.cnn.com/2005/11/04/news/newsmakers/fidelity_party.dj/index.htm
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