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The Suspect Known as Clark Rockefeller on Wall Street
By adamg on Wed, 08/06/2008 - 10:31pm
Dave Copeland, who knows something about criminals and New York, makes some calls to learn about "Rockefeller's" less than illustrious career on Wall Street back in the Gordon Gekko days:
... But after two days at Lehman, Rockefeller told his supervisors that he needed to take time off to search for his parents, who he said had gone missing in Afghanistan. Sources said Rockefeller – who told co-workers at Nikko he was film director Christoher Crowe – was dismissed by Lehman. Rockefeller even invited co-workers to the Greenwich, Conn. guest house he was renting for screenings of "his" movies. Rockefeller claimed he was living in the guest house because his own home was being renovated, a claim that co-workers assumed was one of his tall tales.
Within days of his dismissal from Lehman, Connecticut State Police detectives arrived at the offices of both Lehman and Nikko looking to question Rockefeller. ...
One guess what they might have wanted to question him about. Yep.
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This guy reminds me of
This guy reminds me of Zelig.
Fascinating story
I like Tarantino to produce the major motion picture.
Title suggestions? "Lockjaw: The Clark Rockefeller Story"
Wouldn't it be funny
If this Zelig ended up getting rich for real off his story? I don't think a Son of Sam law is likely to apply here, unless he really is sent up for murder, and even then they'd have to work that into a plea bargain owing to the lack of living victims. A few bags of bones they haven't even been able to verify the identity of isn't much of a case, either, considering the sudden case of amnesia Clark has come down with.
Of course, he'd have to make a stunning recovery from his amnesia in order to write the whole story... Catch-22?
Though all in all, he's not nearly as charming as young Frank Abagnale... and he'd have to be played not by Leo DiCaprio but someone homely like Danny Bonaduce.
One of the things that interests me about his story is how, despite being a talented con man who is able to worm his way into really great situations - married to a woman who makes millions of dollars a year, working at Lehman, etc. - he managed to fail at them all. He succeeds for a while, then he fails catastrophically. It's like a built-in morality cycle, hubris, hamartia, downfall, repeated several times with the same guy. I'm waiting for the anagnorisis, but I don't think it's forthcoming.
Mostly Harmless
A good title, but only if there proves to be little connection between him and the disappearance of certain persons.
It is getting much harder to just vanish in a puff of strange.
or Ripley
From the two movies the Talented Mr. Ripley and Ripley's game.
Or from "Believe it or Not"
I heard
He's on his way to Green Bay to challenge Aaron Rodgers for the Packers' starting QB job.
That's three chapters we
That's three chapters we know of so far, San Marino, Greenwich and Beacon Hill. I bet there are more. We still don't know how and when he came tot he US. The stint in Greenwich was fairly short lived. I think maybe two or three more incarnations are what we'll hear. Each time, he disappears... so people remember the guy with a funny accent, told tall tails, and disappeared like a fart in the wind.
It's all coming apart now
The Herald has more:
Crazy as a bedbug, eh? Apparently he was such a nuisance that they pawned him off on the librarian.
Oh, and about Rockefeller/Chichester/Mountbatten's blue blood... not so much.
I think they've got this guy pretty well figured out down to when and how he entered the country - and, as many have suggested, it does appear he's foreign and here illegally.
Chapter 4: The Berlin (CT) Years
Reiter over stayed his student visa. Sound familiar? ICE can deport him if they have/obtain evidence he's Reiter. They can also charge him for violating his visa and they may need to if they cant make a case other than custodial kidnapping, assault of Reigh, and violating his visa.
Deport him, and then what happens?
I'd take bets that he finds some way to return to the US if he's allowed to be set free and deported to Germany.
jail time and deportation
In other words, he's in legal jeopardy for criminal conduct and illegal immigration. Even if they don't nail him for murder in San Marino, they can get him on kidnapping, assault, and violating his visa. He would get jail time and/or they could deport him.
As a convicted felon, I don't think he would be issued a passport in Germany but if he was, I don't think he would be issued a visa to visit the US unless he qualified under an exception.... I.E. visitation. It sound like you have less faith in the State Department and ICE than I do. Maybe you're right but I hear they've gotten pretty good at keeping watch lists.
Ive been passing in and out
Ive been passing in and out of reading about this story, and it seems like everytime I miss a news cycle about this guy it takes me a long time to catch up again. Once they fully unravel this mess I see a made for TV movie on TNT coming out of it.
TNT and Lifetime
TNT could do the Clark Rockefeller story, while Lifetime could do:
TAKEN: The Snooks Rockefeller Story.
This would also make a very special two-part CSI/Missing crossover, but I'm now convinced there are screenwriters already pounding out scripts for a big-screen movie.
and of course VH1/MTV will
and of course VH1/MTV/E! will come around and give him his own reality show featuring him and his crazy friends getting ready for the trial. Living Rockefellar
The Son of Sam connection
Just when you think it couldn't get any weirder:
Dave Copeland reports that "Clark" used Son of Sam's social-security number on an application for a license to sell securities:
Copeland also posts a scan of Christopher Chichester's business card.
Extra creepy points
You have to fire this guy indeed.
Maybe it was an early hint about eventual intentions to write a book about all his misdeeds. Or maybe it was just a hint that he was a murderer.
In any case, it sends the creep-o-meter into tilt.
Tempted to try out yellowbook.com here
Any bets on how many people by the name of "David Berkowitz" are in the NYC phone directory?
Clark's brother
Or rather, Christian Gerhartsreiter's brother. The Herald's Jessica Van Sack flew to Germany and found Alexander Gerharstreiter:
The race to find Clark's brother
Ooh, the Globe sent a reporter to Germany, too. I wonder if they were on the same plane?
Clark helps local blogger
Dave Copeland reports the New York Post (which today blames Sandra Boss as an enabler) has hired him to cover Rockefeller/German Guy.
Classic!
As usual, women are expected to be responsible for everything, regarless of whether they have any actual authority or control over the situation. Isn't it degrading to men to imply that guys can't be responsible for their own selves?
If the tables were turned and a charming woman married a man of Sandra Boss' professional stature and proceeded to keep company, hearth, home, and many secrets ... would anyone even blink?
Whoa!
Mom? Is that you?
"Clark's" lawyer is giving a
"Clark's" lawyer is giving a press conference at 4:45 PM Friday. Break out the violins.
One missing piece to the puzzle
Did Herr Rockefeller ever cross paths with this woman?
He doesn't remember
The dogs licked his memory clean.
I wonder what jogged his memory.
Now that the LA Sheriff has been able to identify Clark Rockefeller as Christian Gerhartsreiter, the same person as the German who came to CT as an exchange student, Clark now remembers going by the name Christopher Chichester and knowing the San Marino couple. I wonder what jogged his memory.
Attorney Steve Hrones is holding his second press conference in as many weekdays. Will Hrones allow his client to talk to the LA police who want to questing him about the San Marino couple?
Fun performance
I heard part of his press conference on the way home. He won't let Zelig talk to the LA cops - no good lawyer would let his client talk to homicide detectives, he said. But the best part was how, every time Hrones sees him, he remembers more and more. Oh, yes, he did go by Chichister and Crowe after all, but he doesn't know German and he can't be charged with parental kidnapping because TSKAC and Boss were never married. Who knows what Mystery Man will remember when Hrones visits him tomorrow.
Kevin Cullen chimes in
Kevin exists in a world of his own
You heard it here first.
Actually, no Kevin, you heard it here first, but eh.
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Yea, I caught that bit of unmerited bravado, too.
LA Cops positively identify
LA Cops positively identify Christian Gerhartsreiter as Clark Rockefeller, and Christopher Chichester. Beside the fingerprint match, what other evidence did they find?
From the LA Times:
From the LA Times: "Investigators were able to identify Gerhartsreiter through numerous interviews with people who contacted the authorities."