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  • Repo Men (Wall St. bankers and D.C. ruling class, "more than a few of them belong in prison.")

    12/28/2011 4:28:17 PM PST · by neverdem · 60 replies · 6+ views
    NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE ^ | December 28, 2011 | Kevin D. Williamson
    Repo MenFrom the December 19, 2011, issue of NR. If you’re making money on the Wall Street scale — which is nothing like your boring, middle-management in the Fortune 500, Hamptons-and-Mercedes, barely–a–1 percenter type money — then you can buy basically anything. When real-estate investor Robert Rosania put part of his storied champagne collection up for sale in 2008, the auction was predicted to fetch $5 million — couch-cushion change to Rosania, who had not yet reached his 40th birthday, making him a good deal younger than many of the vintages in his cellar. (Known in the wine world as...