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Americans: You’re Paying For a Very Expensive Bat Mitzvah This Weekend

January 13, 2012 at 6:59 PM Leave a comment

If you are unfamiliar with Matt Taibbi or you don’t read him on a regular basis, make a resolution right now to change that.  The guy is a monster writer.  Let me tease you with the opening paragraphs of his most recent great read:

If there was ever a news story that crystalized the moral dementia of modern Wall Street in one little vignette, this is it.

Newspapers in Colorado today are reporting that the elegant Hotel Jerome in Aspen, Colorado,  will be closed to the public from today through Monday at noon.

(This is the Hotel Jerome:

I “collect” old hotels.  Ten-or-so-years ago Mr. SayitAintSoAlready and I took a trip to Aspen.  I called ahead to inquire about making reservations at the Hotel Jerome.  When I learned that they only rented rooms for 2-day increments, I had to let go of the thought of staying there. Forking over the cost of one night was going to be a stretch; there was no way we could afford two.)

Why? Because some local squire has apparently decided to rent out all 94 rooms of the hotel for three-plus days for his daughter’s Bat Mitzvah.

The hotel’s general manager, Tony DiLucia, would say only that the party was being thrown by a “nice family,” but newspapers are now reporting that the Daddy of the lucky little gal is one Jeffrey Verschleiser, currently an executive with Goldman, Sachs.

At first,  I couldn’t remember where I knew that name from. But then I looked it up and saw an explosive Atlantic magazine story, published last year, called, “E-mails Suggest Bear Stearns Cheated Clients Out Of Millions.” And then I remembered that piece, and it hit me: Jeffrey Verschleiser is one of the biggest assholes in the entire world!

Entry filed under: Corporatocracy, Fascist America, Financial Crisis, Our Tax Dollars. Tags: aspen colorado, bear stearns, elegant hotel, goldman sachs, hotel jerome, matt taibbi.