Epstein Secrets

mended statement of their claims against The Bear Steams Companies, Bear Stearns & Co., Bear Steams Asset Management ("BSAM"), and Warren Spector ("Spector") (collectively "Bear Steams"). These claims arise out of the collapse in the summer of 2007 of a group of hedge funds managed by Bear Stearns. Cla

llions of dollars of losses to firms around the world. The two Bear Steams executives most directly involved in managing the funds, Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, have been indicted for repeatedly lying to investors about the Enhanced Fund's condition from February to June 2007, when the Fund ultimately coll

dents" means and includes (a) The Bear Steams Companies, Inc., Bear, Steams & Co. Inc., and Bear Steams Asset Management Inc., and Warren Spector ("Spector") collectively or individually; (b) any of their past and/or present employees, directors, representatives, agents, officers, consultants, attorneys

12. "Fund Managers" means any person involved, directly or indirectly, in the management of the Funds, including without limitation Ralph Cioffi, Matthew Tannin, Colin Gordon, and Franklin Collins. 13. The term "Bear Steams Fund" means any hedge fund, mutual fund, private equity fund or other investment v

f investors, and he was several reporting lines removed from the valuation, oversight and monitoring of the Funds. Epstein's decision to single out Spector as the responsible individual is puzzling at best. Second, Epstein's narrative ignores that, prior to investing with BSAM, he received extensive wri

gement of the Funds" nor represented that he oversaw the Funds. Am. St. Claim 1 16. Indeed, Epstein admits as much, conceding that Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin — not Spector — were "[t]he two Bear Steams executives most directly involved in managing the funds." Am. St. Claim 1 9. Epstein's assertion that t