Occupier gets Wall Street Job

[Dragonbreathp9d]

Source: ABC

Armed with 800 copies of her resume, Postert held a sign that read: “Ph.D. Biomedical Scientist Seeking Full Time Employment.”
Although Postert was looking for work in academia, she had all but given up.
Her sign caught the eye of Wayne Kaufman, the chief market analyst for John Thomas Financial Brokerage — a firm with a prime Wall Street address.
“I said a very quick hello,” Kaufman told ABCNews.com.  “I took a copy of her resume and contacted her the next day. I was very impressed by it.”
Postert came in a few days later for an interview at the company’s office at 14 Wall St., where she learned that Kaufman wanted her to be a junior analyst evaluating medical companies as potential investments.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2011/12/occupier-gets-wall-street-job/

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Sorry for double post, iPhone schitzed on me

[markpkessinger]

1. Wait, so Wall Street is now hiring dirty, smelly hippies?

Can you spell "P.R. stunt" boys and girls?

[dipsydoodle]

2. She's either fit for the job or she's not

Good luck to her for putting herself about sufficiently to land a job.

Unlikely to be a PR stunt.

[markpkessinger]

3. I didn't mean on her part . . .

. . . I meant on the part of the firm that hired her.

[dipsydoodle]

4. I realised that

but I don't believe it was a stunt on the part of the firm which hired her.

[jerseyjack]

5. As a fan of Brit comedies, I love the name of the hiring firm.

[dipsydoodle]

6. lol

I hadn't noticed that.

[Dragonbreathp9d]

7. Occupier gets job on Wall Street

Source: ABC

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2011/12/occupier-gets-wall-street-job/

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2011/12/occupier-gets-wall-street-job/

[stockholmer]

8. her new firm...John Thomas Financial (Reportedly) Screwed Over A Missing Children Company

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2010-08-11/wall_street/30008209_1_ipo-interoil-consulting


The last time we mentioned John Thomas Financial, the investment bank was defending controversial energy exploration company Interoil (IOC) against reports of stock price manipulation. http://www.businessinsider.com/interoil-ioc-major-momentum-or-just-a-castle-in-the-air-a-new-investigation-2010-4

Well, they're back!

In another shady -- if legal -- transaction, John Thomas CEO Anastasios Belesis reportedly screwed over a start-up company that was marketing software to help police find missing children.

The full investigation by Roddy Boyd is here. http://www.thefinancialinvestigator.com/?p=181

In brief, Boyd reports that John Thomas Financial wasted or pocketed nearly half of $13 million raised for the company, AMBER Ready. Belesis reportedly hijacked the company's development program, giving consulting contracts to his friends and political allies. After 12 years, the start-up company is an empty husk with no product in sight.

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and this


http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/02/11/revenge-of-the-wall-street-traders-the-fat-cats-strike-back/

Revenge of the Wall Street Traders: The Fat Cats Strike Back


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John Thomas Financial was founded in 2008 by Anastasios (Thomas) Belesis, who prior to the rally had most prominently been featured in the media for supposedly dispensing financial advice to Duchess of York–turned–movie producer Sarah Ferguson, and receiving the 2009 Bronx GOP Man of the Year award -- a distinction for which former mayor Rudolph Giuliani appeared in a video saying, "Tom embodies the spirit of the American dream: the New York dream. The son of immigrants, Tom rose from humble beginnings to become a great success on Wall Street."

This is what it means to be a great success on Wall Street:

In June 2008, Belesis filed an affadavit in the New York State Supreme Court on the subject of his involvement with the InterOil Corporation, a former Enron subsidiary with a claim to a massive pool of natural gas off the coast of Papua New Guinea, a relatively fecund history of associating with share-price manipulators and, by the beginning of 2008, a major cash squeeze coming on. Belesis testified that he had essentially orchestrated a deal by which InterOil managed to raise $95 million through a private convertible debt offering in which John Thomas and other entities would eventually net nearly $6 million in fees.

Four days after the deal was signed, Wayne Kaufman appeared on CNBC to call InterOil his "favorite stock." The company's shares proceeded to jump above the strike price of $32.50 a share, forcing a conversion of the bonds to shares less than a month after the appearance. Within months after that, shares plunged below $10 a share. They have since rebounded impressively. The stock performance has been extensively probed by the blog White Collar Fraud.

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[joshcryer]

10. Think she should quit?

[stockholmer]

15. I think people need to do what they need to do to survive (up to a point), that said, she should

definitely keep looking for a placement in her original field.

[No Elephants]

9. Thank you and best wishes, Ms. Postert. Please stay true to your principles

no matter where you work.

[CoffinEd]

11. Looks like Wall Street is a "job creator"

Certainly don't begrudge Ms. Postert from choosing to go from unemployed to gainfully employed, but we all know how the media and the supporters of the 1% are going to spin this story to make the other OWS protestors look bad. Just look at some of the comments on the blog, including this oh-so-predictable gem:

"Like the real 99% has been saying, ‘Take a Bath and Get a Job’!"

See boys and girls, despite what those nasty, unwashed, illiterate, criminal-minded, lazy-assed bums who really don't want to work have been saying, jobs are available if you really want one. Even on Wall Street.

[FarLeftFist]

12. Doesn't this kind of prove OWS point that higher education should be less expensive and more accessi

accessible? Imagine a nation of Phd graduates. The innovation and job creation that would bring.

[Yupster]

13. I don't think anyone disagrees that college should be less expensive

The problem is how to make it less expensive.

Those are the parts people don't agree on.

[octothorpe]

14. oh oh oh oh... I got in a discussion with a guy about the high price college education...

He just finished getting his MBA or something along those lines. Anyway, he said he was against lowering the cost of education, because it would mean more people would get one and make his degrees mean less. I was shocked that anyone actually held that opinion and thought it was right. I mean, I'd understand if he said he thought it should be more difficult academically or something along though lines, but to base it solely on cost? WTF? Might as well make it so only blue-eyed people can get a college education.

I dunno, at least he was up front about it. I'm sure others hold similar feelings, but hide it behind half-assed justifications that make little sense.

[hughee99]

17. If he thinks that all it takes to get an MBA was the ability to finance it

and anyone who can afford it will get one, then his probably wasn't all that tough to get and other than the piece of paper that gets him in the door, won't have much value.

[stockholmer]

16. the universities (whom the government enables to keep raising tuition due to subsidizing loans) want

higher fees.

[Yupster]

18. My local college

could lose 2/3rd's of its administrators and no one would ever notice.