The Portchester Car Crash: Mystery solved!
For the past couple of days we've been asking about this wrecked Porsche. Our interest was purely conjectural. A fancy car, wrecked on a street near Greenwich, Connecticut, conflicting stories about what really happened—our instincts told us that this was a DealBreaker story. Someone involved works for Wall Street or a hedge fund, we guessed. And we were right.
In fact, we were more right than we thought. The owner of the car wasn't just some unknown hedge fundster or anonymous Wall Street Guy, it's Robert Greenhill, former Chairman and CEO of Smith Barney and founder of Greenhill & Co, according to the New York Post.
Case closed! (By the way, we're enjoying this new system where we get to ask the important questions, and then the Post sends reporters out to answer them.)
From 440G To A Wreck In 1 Sec [New York Post]
Comments
Good job, Dealbreaker team.
Posted by: Brunswick School | December 1, 2006 11:35 AM
Whoa there John, didn't you hypothesize that the driver who wrecked the car, and then replaced it with lightning speed, was the hedgie? Not so much the original owner of the car, but the driver to whom the car was lent? Gaping holes here...
Posted by: The Corner | December 1, 2006 01:03 PM
It's Port Chester, NOT "Porchester," although compared to its wealthy neighbor Greenwich maybe the town should be re-dubbed "Poor Chester," or "Pobre Chester" in honor of the tens of thousands of Hispanics who have colonized the town over the last 15 years.
Posted by: Boxing Cat | December 1, 2006 03:11 PM
Close enough! I'm definitely hitting happy hour feeling vindicated.
Posted by: John Carney | December 1, 2006 05:56 PM
John, you're good. I'd love to see you guys uncover more stories like that one.
Posted by: Boxing Cat | December 1, 2006 07:23 PM