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Skip and Dutch anxiously await the return of Claude from his big meeting in the park.
Starring Tyler Evans, Chris Murray, Jake Eisbart, and Evan Neumann.
Music by The Shorebirds. www.myspace.com/theshorebirds
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Claude S. Duthcy, LLC is open for business but nothing’s shaking. Enter a breath of French
Air to the mix and things will never be the same.
Starring Tyler Evans, Chris Murray, Jake Eisbart and Evan Neumann.
Music by The Shorebirds. www.myspace.com/theshorebirds
“Hedge fund hotshot Robert Mercer files lawsuit over $2M model train, accusing builder of overcharge”
A hedge fund hotshot’s lawsuit over a toy railroad setup sounds more like the great train robbery than Thomas the Tank Engine.
Robert Mercer is accusing the builder of overcharging him by nearly $2 million for the elaborate HO-scale model railroad constructed and installed in his Long Island mansion.
Mercer, 62, contends in a federal suit that the correct amount due for labor and materials is more like $704,669, according to the complaint filed in Central Islip Federal Court. Mercer’s lawyer Steven Pinks confirmed the figures are not typos, but declined to comment further.
Mercer filed notice Monday seeking a default judgment against RailDreams Custom Model Railroad Design, in Michigan, and the company’s president, Richard Taylor, for failing to answer the suit.
Taylor expressed shock over the legal maneuver because he thought they were going to settle the matter out of court.
“He [Mercer] is a hedge fund guy, part of the reason why the country is in the situation it’s in,” Taylor told the Daily News.
The suit accuses Taylor of padding the bill “wrongfully and fraudulently,” but he countered that like many large transportation projects, the costs ballooned as a result of the buyer’s demands.
Reluctant to discuss details of the railroad set, Taylor said it depicts a specific location in New York State with museum-quality detail and is about half the size of a basketball court.
“To the discerning model railroader, a finished RailDreams layout is truly a unique work of art,” the company’s Web site crows.
Taylor said a team of craftsmen was dispatched from its headquarters in Lake Linden, Mich., to Long Island to finish the job while Mercer’s home in Mount Sinai, L.I., was being built. “We had to get it done for his daughter’s wedding,” Taylor said.
-BY John Marzulli
The Daily News
What we can’t believe is why Robert Mercer didn’t make the train set as big as a football field. Half a basketball court? Come on Bobby! We’d make that train track as big and as badass as any model train track eyes have ever seen. Ours would probably go underground.
- CSD, LLC
Dale Harpsicord of The Greenback Century calls Hedge Fund "A Fundancial Laugh Riot. I shit my pants...TWICE!" FOUR STARS
Helene Crossarrow-Hernandez of Nickels and Sense raves, "A true orignial. Hedge Fund stayed with me for days, even after I got laid off from this newspaper!"
Mortimer Schwarzbaum of Bazooka Capital spits, "Who the F@#$^ are these guys! They've made me want to raise my fees and say to hell with it all!
Robbie Tony, New York Times Best-Selling Author and Motivational Speaker, says, "If these guys can do it, anybody can! They're living proof of Blood, Sweat, Tears, and Personal Knowledge."
Brooklyn- Hedge Funds, that once ubiquitous term, which rose meteorically through the eighties and nineties to become the Kings of Wall Street, look more like rooks in a crumbling game of chess- once subordinate vassals now running arms akimbo to the hills to rule themselves. With the majority of investors sitting on the side lines waiting out the financial crisis, Hedge Funds are losing profits, clients, and in many cases, themselves. And with the prospect of the Federal Government not only taking over majority shares of private banks, but regulating many of the private investment vehicles, many equity managers are witnessing the death of the once kingly, elitist, deregulated, and mythical Hedge Fund.
Au contraire mofraire.
Four unremarkable, perhaps dopey, and seemingly under qualified financiers would have you believe otherwise. The partners of Claude S. Dutchy, LLC firmly assert that there is, in fact, no better time than now to start a Hedge Fund. This infectious optimism is quite succinctly folded into their motto, “Full of Bull in a Bear Market,” like buttercream in a nutcake.
Sitting on the only couch in the offices of Claude S. Dutchy, LLC, a pre-war tenement with cracked paint and uneven floors, one thing becomes apparent. This Hedge Fund is not your typical “white-shoe” firm, and they’ve got innovation written all over their faces. Eschewing a traditional office, Claude Thornbush, Skip Murphy, Dutch Alison, and Phillipe Rochambeau have transformed their one-bedroom, Williamsburg apartment into an almost seamless, utopian office environment where no one seems to sleep- there is neither space nor time for it. The walls are adorned not with accolades and certificates of financial achievement, but with tigers, lions, and a swimming baby elephant. As CEO Claude Thornbush beams, “We’re in the Serengeti here, alone, frightened, but with that feeling of isolation and survival. We want to get up, polish off that antelope carcass from the night before and maybe get some coffee, read the paper, look up some stuff, and then make a call or two.”
They may not seem like your traditional Hedge Fund partners- no one who works at the Fund has a post-graduate degree, nor a particular financial lineage- but one thing is for certain. They are long on themselves. As Dutch Alison put it, “We are poised to fill the widening private equity void and perhaps become The Last of the Hedge Funds. Like Chingascook, the last Mohican, circling with that blue, wooden axe to that badass music, slicing Mogwai in half and kicking his body off the cliffs to that Netherdom below.” After spending a quiet afternoon with the Claude S. Dutchy Partners, LLC, one thing seems inevitable. They live together as one, they believe in the blood, sweat, and tears of dreams. And they are ready to be, if not the princes of finance, the warriors in that proverbial Serengeti where kings once reigned.
– Gene Wilderbarn
Hedge Funder Magazine
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Claude comes home after losing his job. But he’s got something of a plan.
Starring Timmy Cassese, Tyler Evans and Chris Murray
Written and Directed by Chris Murray
Music by Dujeous. www.dujeous.net/
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Claude overhears something that will change his life forever.
Starring Tyler Evans, Michael Torpey, and Daniel O’Brien and Rachelle Guiragossian.
Written and Directed by Chris Murray.
Music by 87 Stick Up Kids. www.myspace.com/the87stickupkids
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