Naw, sounds like TRAV is a flunkie, who owed a few favors to Brennan and or Wernick......like the song from Alabama......"Devils got your soul".
The fact Chalem and Lehman got wacked togeather makes for a interesting link, The other Colts Neck murder victim, Alain A. Chalem, age 41, has never been charged with any wrongdoing, though he did work at A.S. Goldmen & Co., a brokerage firm the Manhattan District Attorney indicted in July, along with many of its brokers, for allegedly bilking investors out of more than $100 million. Goldmen officials deny the charges, and their lawyer said in court that the firm was forced to cut a deal with the mob to stay in business. Prosecutors decline to say whether Chalem or Lehmann helped them build the case against Goldmen. In any event, the fact that the two promoters had crossed paths with mob figures can only add to the list of possible suspects in the murder case.
"Birds of a feather flock togeather".....what a great bunch of guy's, I like this quote from Wernick Wernick insisted to Barron's that Travis runs Patterson Travis, and that the Brennan alumni were "great" employees who just needed a break. "If you're down and out," said Wernick, "I'm your best friend. No matter if you're Jewish, black, white, green, yellow. I'm your friend." The way I read it is Wernick is the Pimp and the Brennan Alumni are the hookers, Travis just happens to own the flop house where the tricks are turned.
Too bad Travis doesn't come around SI anymore, I'd love to hear his take on this;
In 1994, Wernick moved to Patterson Travis, a then-moribund firm owned by David Travis, a Colorado man who was recovering from a heart-bypass operation. In a Manhattan skyscraper, Wernick set up a branch office for the firm. On paper, the operation was run by Travis, and the firm's prospectuses modestly describe Wernick as "office manager." But Lehmann alleged that Wernick ran the firm, and documents, customers and employees corroborate this claim.
Many of the brokers working under Wernick at Patterson Travis were Brennan alumni. Wernick's sales manager, for example, was Richard Laus, the ex-brother-in-law of Brennan, who had run sales at the outlaw firm Hibbard Brown. Wernick's operations officer was Marshall S. Maddox, formerly the finance chief at L.C. Wegard. |
