November 9, 2007
Assistant Arrested in Linda Stein Murder Case
There's finally been an arrest in the murder of Linda Stein. Yesterday it was reported that the police were interested in re-interviewing Stein's assistant, Brooklyn resident Natavia Lowery, who has a shady past involving identity theft. So it's not all that surprising that today the NYPD announced Lowery has been taken into custody. They found the 26-year old in Virginia Beach, apparently visiting her boyfriend.
Police spokesman Paul Browne said Lowery "made statements implicating herself" in the killing. Lowery was taken to the 7th Precinct in Manhattan.Those financial details? Stein "trusted Lowery with her big bucks celebrity clients' financial secrets, including Social Security and bank account numbers." Stein, as most people in Lowery's life, was unaware of her previous arrest. As for why she did it, The Times reports the assistant claimed Ms. Stein “just kept yelling at her," and not just that day, the battle was apparently ongoing.Sources said Stein hired Lowery in early summer after firing her previous personal assistant. Stein, an old-school style realtor, conducted most of her business through personal contacts and lunch and dinner meetings.
Lowery handled the computer work, setting up appointments and handling some of the financial details.
Update: Police Commissioner Ray Kelly gave a press conference. According to Newsday, he revealed that "Lowery told detectives that Stein was 'verbally abusive' to her the day of the murder, using profanity and derogatory language." Plus: "She also said Stein blew marijuana smoke in her face before she snapped and hit Stein six or seven times with a yoga stick, Kelly said." Um, what exactly is a yoga stick? Besides being a murder weapon.
Photo by Mike Nagle.
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fake news. oh...wait. ok this is real.
...or is it?
you see what you've done jen carlson? i can't tell what's real or fake anymore.
“It was that Linda just kept yelling at her, over everything” the official said.
seems like she wasnt really the saint of realestate everyone made her out to be!
goodbye to self centered looney!
she must have been a thrill to work with, imagine being so angry that you'd rather bash her skull in than just quit your job!
so you kill your boss! she murdered her, quit, resigned and fired herself all at once!
she can be my broker when she gets out!
Thank You Natavia for doing a good deed!
What is it about the internet that inspires people to relish in the death of someone they've never met?
With exclamation points, no less.
i just hate all real estate brokers!
hahha!!!!
and landlords!!!!!!!
OH I FORGOT,,,,
IM RELISHING THE DEATH OF SOMEONE IN
ALL CAPS LOCK!!!!!!
and compounding the insult with copy & paste!!
ALL CAPS LOCK!!!!!!
and compounding the insult with copy & paste!!
ALL CAPS LOCK!!!!!!
and compounding the insult with copy & paste!!
ALL CAPS LOCK!!!!!!
and compounding the insult with copy & paste!!
ALL CAPS LOCK!!!!!!
and compounding the insult with copy & paste!!
ALL CAPS LOCK!!!!!!
lol
Get them writers back,
this is straight out of the headlines.
there will be at least one sympathetic jury.
i met my first and last broker in LIC,
charles scribberas!
what a slimeball!
I don't think anyone thought Linda Stein was necessarily a saint - they described her as being brash, pushy, being a real character, etc. That said, there are tons of arguments that *don't* lead to murders.
Perhaps some good will come of this, and people with personalities like this will think twice before verbally terrorizing their workers.
Oh, who am I kidding....
thats true jen!
but i grew up in a nyc where people were murdered for shelltop adidas, cazals & kangol's!!! so i have low expectations....
ha what a waste!
what u in for, i shot a kid for his cazals back in 1984!!!
they didn't really shoot people for Kangol's back then but those Cazals, that's another story.
there's a message to this story but it will be ignored.
God Bless you Ms. Lowery.
Wait just a minute.
What we have here is a grifter, a con, a person who commits petty (or maybe not so petty) financial scams - using her "friend's" ID no less.
So, basically she is scum and should have been arrested already.
As another poster points out (but fails to think through) that this person murdered her boss instead of quitting. Maybe it was not that Linda Stein was such a witch or that she “yelled at” her, but the fear of exposure that would loose her this job and any future jobs as well. Odds are, given her predilection for petty financial crimes, that Ms. Lowery had her fingers in that big cookie jar sitting on her desk at work – the computer with the client’s financial information. Maybe Ms. Stein is on to that – hummm?
Or maybe it’s just a case of being a scumbag criminal creep with a screw loose – just a thought.
BTW, what I sense in these nasty posts (imagine what they would be like if the unregistered could post - yike) is an unarticulated but broad streak of anti-Semitism, and man is it ugly.
from the way she's been described, it sounds like she had it coming.
BTW, what I sense in these nasty posts (imagine what they would be like if the unregistered could post - yike) is an unarticulated but broad streak of anti-Semitism, and man is it ugly.
Sounds more like people just hate abusive rich people and/or real estate brokers. Don't go looking for more than is there.
Seriously, what kind of name is Natavia? This is another one of those "America's Next Top Model" names-- no one knows where it came from or half the time, how to pronounce it.
Can't people give their kids normal names anymore?
Natavia Lowery is black. Not that it matters in terms of the crime.
Moral of the story? If you're going to hire someone for a job involving access to money or to sensitive information (e.g. clint bank account numbers), do a background check first!
employers have the Federal right to do background searches on their employees, with consent. However, if you deny consent, very often you're denied the job. If you have nothing to hide, then consent.
edEx:
The U.S. gov't shouldn't need a warrant to search and seize your property, tapping your phones, record all your online activities, expose whatever sexual proclivities you have, in fact they should just do away the Bill of Rights and the Constitution for that matter. It's just a nuisance anyways. You're right. If you have nothing to hide, then you should consent and I'm guessing you'll be the first in line to give all your rights away. Congrats!
Most brokers are jerks. NYC attracts and rewards jerks, by paying them a lot of money. People who don't enjoy living with, working for, or waiting on jerks structure their lives in such a way that minimizes contact with them. It often means less money, but it feels a whole lot bettter.
People who want to work for jerks, because of the money, should not be shocked when they aren't treated with kindness. This is naive. They also should not kill them, and then complain that they weren't treated nicely. This make them not only jerks themselves, but naive, whining, scheming murderers.
Of course, that's just a theory.
Agreed EastRiver. Stop looking for plots AnnaZed, it's very unbecoming....
In what sense am I looking for a plot? There is one; grifter murders brash wealthy boss.
According to the Post, the assistant beat her with a "yoga rod" after the old bag yelled at her and blew pot smoke in her face.
I thought pot was supposed to mellow you out.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11092007/news/regionalnews/stein_assistant_questioned_in_brokers_mu_118070.htm
Maybe she can use temporary insanity as caused by pot smoke defense...
Pot don't affect mean people.
If she was so well loved why didn't anyone hear her scream when she was being beaten?
I guess the other residents were used to her brashness.
sounds like a world-class cunt
if you abuse people you're going to get your ass beat.
wait, why is patrick moberg a tag for this story? OVERSATURATION!
BTW, what I sense in these nasty posts (imagine what they would be like if the unregistered could post - yike) is an unarticulated but broad streak of anti-Semitism, and man is it ugly.
I find it ironic that for someone wailing "Anti-semitism!", you're the only one who brought race into this discussion with your comment:
Natavia Lowery is black. Not that it matters in terms of the crime.
If it doesn't matter, then why say it?
what would patrick moberg say about this?
(sigh)
If your job/Boss Sucks, You Just Quit, not commit murder.
"Yoga Sick"?? Can this get any odder?
Also, mikenyc2001, It's:
"Bwa-Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!"
Get it right.
I posted that Natavia Lowery is black because someone asked what like of name is that though I would have thought that was obvious.
I don't see this as a black/jewish thing more like a person who already had what I shall call boundary problems with other people's money being in the employ of a brash wealthy person - worlds collide kind of thing.
We will never know if Ms. Stein actually abused her or called her racist names. That's Ms. Lowery's version. Ms. Stein can't speak for herself now can she.
Ok here's the politically correct response: two apparently bad people met each other resulting in the death of one and imminent jailing of the other.
My boss had better back the f*&k off the way she's been treating me.
It's ingenuous to ignore the culture clash. The style of Linda Stein is all too familiar to people who live in New York, including Jews. It is the basis of comedy we can all appreciate, but it can also be awful to endure, especially at the receiving end. And when the receiver is a black woman, well look out. They've taken enough shit.
Linda Stein was killed with a yoga stick? What's a yoga stick anyway? Read about it at http://www.celebstoner.com/content/view/414/37/
I watch "Cops" all the time and they say, "Innocent until proven guilty by a court of law."
All things considered she received what she deserved. And this has nothing to do with the money grubbing Jew background that she lived.
Am I waxing moralistic to say that murder is wrong no matter who it is?
I don't like landlords and real estate brokers either. But I don't bash their heads in. I have also had bosses that drove me to drink. Better an alchy then a convicted murderer. At least you are free to walk to the liquor store.
BTW, looks like the racist lurker is back.
Slappy, that isn't a lurker (they lurk and don't post), that is a troll. I'm just sayin.
Where's Al Sharpton? When a nappy headed ho being need of defenxe and shit.
@AnnaZed
Troll... right.
Thanks
"nothing is true, everying is permitted"
- Gysin, Burroughs, Hassan i Sabbah, Dostoyevsky
Where's Al Sharpton? When a nappy headed ho being need of defenxe and shit.
Well, Snoopy, I don't need the bad publicity and right now I'm sponsoring a scholarship for Sean Bell, it will be for academically gifted, and like all scholarships, you have to be BLACK or you're wack (and disqualified)
FACT: Sean Bell was an aspiring President of the US.
OK, this was just added to the updated story about this murder on the New York Times site:
"At Ms. Lowery’s arraignment last night, an assistant district attorney, Shanda Strain, said that after the killing, Ms. Lowery used Ms. Stein’s A.T.M. card to withdraw $800."
NOW, do you think the poor little abused assitant gave Ms. Stein what she had coming to her? I think that we will find that that is not the only financial shenanigans that Ms. Lowery was up to. I think the stuff about pot smoke in her face is crap (culled from stories over the last few days about Ms. Stein's habits and designed to make her look bad). I also doubt that Ms. Stein "waved a stick" at Ms. Lowey - not the style of the imperious verbally harsh wealthy type.
As I said this is a grifter who murdered her boss.
Now we be talking. How fucking stupid could you be to use an ATM card of someone you just murdered?
Great job NYPD. How many days did it take to track that lead down?
YES. she had it coming and it came.
brashness don't fail me now.
It was not us who coined the phrase the broker to the stars and the original co-manager of the PUNK Rock group the Ramones.
BTW, what I sense in these nasty posts (imagine what they would be like if the unregistered could post - yike) is an unarticulated but broad streak of anti-Semitism, and man is it ugly.
Um. If you thought the messages posted before yours were anti-semitic, well I suggest you read the "The boy who cried wolf".
it's amusing that the commentators on gothamist can't figure out if they want to be racist against blacks or jews in this thread.
Matty:
They really don't care, as long as someone notices them. No one in real life will.
Here's an example of a yoga stick - it does look substantial: http://www.india-shopping.net/Yoga/yoga-stick.html
It looks like Linda Stein would have died from over-tanning before too long, anyway.
I think the second hand pot smoke is a good defense. Nativia freaked out, found out she suffered from lung cancer from working under those conditions and decided to take her out after she was called nappy headed. I rest my case.
She only busted out the $800 because she needed it to buy some crack. And she only"borrowed" the cell phone to make a call to her dealer. You didn't see that girl taking advantage of calling her relatives in Africa did you?
Where is Al Sharpton?
I once worked for an attorney who screamed, yelled, and cursed out the staff, and also the clients.
I quit.
Later, I find out that he died in the office during one of his rant and rave sessions. Sounds like that's what would have happened to Stein as well.
I didn't need the wear and tear on my nerves, nor the record, so I did the best thing - walked out.
Too bad the young lady didn't see it that way.