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Pastimes : Whodunit? Two Stockbrokers Murdered in Jersey; No Clues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Graystone who wrote (816)	11/10/1999 10:32:00 PM
From: BORIS BADENUFF	Respond to of 1156

why all of the talk about dogs? are there any thoughts about this potential angle of the story?http://www.nj.com/news/stories/1110broker.html "....A story appearing in the current issue of Barron's supports the claim that Lehmann was peddling information and that he was motivated by revenge. The paper reported that Lehmann met with journalists at the financial publication in late 1997 to implicate one person in particular. "Lehmann's main goal seemed to be to interest prosecutors and reporters in the financial dealings of one of his former business associates, Judah L. Wernick," Barron's reported. "Lehmann felt that he was owed money by Wernick and admitted that grudge upfront." Lehmann's assertion, Barron's reported, was that Wernick was "the latest in a long line of front men" for Brennan. Wernick, 37, could not be reached for comment. A woman who answered the phone at his Woodmere, N.Y., home said she was referring inquiries to her lawyer, whose name she did not have at hand. She identified herself as "the baby sitter." In response to a later call, the woman said that Wernick would have no comment. Wernick and Lehmann lived just blocks apart in Woodmere, and worked together at the Manhattan brokerage of Patterson-Travis, often commuting together, according to Barron's. Wernick was listed in SEC filings as the firm's office manager. No information was available about Lehmann's role. A former federal prosecutor in New York said Lehmann made the rounds among law enforcement agencies two years ago, offering evidence of wrongdoing by Patterson-Travis. "The degree of information he was providing was so detailed that he was obviously right in the middle of the criminal conduct, even though he denied it," the former prosecutor said. Wernick and six others are currently under federal indictment in New York for their purported roles in a stock scam that authorities contend was secretly run by Randolph Pace, the head of another shuttered brokerage firm, Rooney Pace. All have denied the charges. Three officials at a defunct brokerage, Investors Associates of Hackensack have pleaded guilty in the alleged scheme, which prosecutors allege netted $200 million....."