The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Tuesday, January 27, 2004  

ABOUT MY MAN
Peter Bacanovic, I Mean

Overshadowed in the federal government’s latest, and most misguided, Wall Street prosecution, that against Martha Stewart, chairman and chief executive officer of Martha Stewart Omnimedia Ltd., has been her co-defendant, her stockbroker/financial planner at Merrill Lynch & Co., Peter Bacanovic.

Bacanovic in the past has been mentioned in passing at Rittenhouse, mostly, I concede, with superfluous, and, as is my wont, entirely superficial, reference to his extraordinary good looks.

By such references I did not intend to imply in any way whatsoever that Bacanovic is one kind or another of a “lightweight.” In fact, and if anything, the more I have learned of his background, education, and professional accomplishments, the more impressed I have become with Stewart’s unfairly charged, possibly railroaded, co-defendant.

For the latest reliable and altogether entirely fair profile of Bacanovic, see “The Stewart Trial’s Other Star,” by Landon Thomas Jr. (New York Times, January 25.)

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