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More details about prominent Manhattan lawyer-slash-apparent grifter Marc Dreier (pictured with Michael Strahan and Alicia Keys at a charity event). After his arrest, it was discover that tens of millions went missing from clients' escrow accounts. According to Forbes, Dreier "even managed to transfer $10 million by telephone from escrow accounts to his personal account while sitting in a Canadian jail awaiting a bail hearing." And Dreier, the Post reports, "figur[ed] he could replace the money by selling off his firm's art collection," worth $40 million. Following his Canadian arrest and release, Dreier was arrested in NYC for an alleged $100 million fraud scheme (selling fake debt to hedge funds). His law firm is in disarray; a partner said, "The news of Mr. Dreier’s arrest has had a devastating effect. The December health insurance premium has not been paid, the firm’s December rent payment is now overdue, and AT&T will terminate BlackBerry service." More details at the Law Blog.
Money Missing From Dreier's Client Escrow Accounts
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Let's hope he did work for Plaxico; he'll get shot.
Greed trumps intelligence. If I stole over $100 million, I wouldn't stick around to get caught. Spend a million to buy a new identity. Another million or less to get some plastic surgery. That would still leave a hell of a lot of money to live like a king for decades.
Marc Dreier is a textbook sociopath. I can guarantee he was indulged and spoiled rotten as a kid, always got what he wanted, bullied everyone, has been stealing from his clients for years. Anyone know about the Judith Regan case? She fired him because he was engaged in some scam and none of the other lawyers would believe her or wanted to take him on. Maybe they'll believe her now. They didn't believe her about that other psychopath Bernard Kerik when she tried to blow the whistle on him. Instead they tried to defame her and ruin her career. A pox on all their dirty lives.Read the Dreier complaint against Regan.He accuses her of exactly what he is doing to her. The psychological term is projection -- he was trying to steal HER money, she fired him and then he sues her and claims she's stealing from him? Rot in your jail cell forever you greedy lowlife pig.