Marc Dreier

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Marc Stuart Dreier (born May 12, 1950 ) is a former American attorney who was sentenced to 20 years in prison by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in 2009 for cheating on investors according to a Ponzi scheme .

Life

Growing up in a particularly affluent area on Long Island , Dreier first studied at Yale after graduating from high school, and after graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1972, he completed the Young Women program at Harvard Law School (1975).

He gained his first professional experience in a large law firm, where he became a partner in the early 1980s. In 1989 he moved to Fulbright & Jaworski . In 1995 he worked briefly for Duker & Barrett; In 1996 he founded the law firm Dreier & Baritz with Neil Baritz. From 1999 to 2002 Dreier, Baritz, & Federman had an office on Park Avenue in New York that Dreier ran. He specialized in high-revenue class actions; However, conflicts over his spending behavior led to a legal battle with his partner Federman.

In 2006 Dreier founded his own law firm, where he was the sole owner and employed lawyers on fixed-term contracts.

After Dreier's arrest, his company was placed under bankruptcy protection, his assets frozen and auctioned, including several yachts, automobiles (2007 Aston Martin DB9 Volante, 2006 BMW 650i Cabrio , 2000 S500 , 1997 SL500 Roadster ), paintings by David Hockney , Roy Lichtenstein , Andy Warhol , Pablo Picasso , Henri Matisse , Tom Otterness and real estate in Manhattan , the Hamptons and Anguilla .

literature

Niklas Maak : Marc Dreier's house in East Quogue . In: Atlas of strange houses and their inhabitants . Carl Hanser, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-446-25289-9 ( hanser.de [PDF]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anatomy of a Crack-Up: The Marc Dreier Case. Retrieved August 29, 2016 (American English).
  2. ↑ Marc Dreier: Shades of Things to Come. Retrieved August 29, 2016 (American English).
  3. ↑ The Death of the Dreier Model. In: amlawdaily.typepad.com. Retrieved August 29, 2016 .
  4. ^ Nathan Koppel: A Look at Marc Dreier's Worldly Possessions. Retrieved August 29, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Threesome, Marc
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dreier, Marc Stuart (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American former lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1950