According to The New York Observer, Steven Cohen has been attempting to furtively sell off the $62.5M East Hampton manse he bought less than a year ago. The alleged reason for the the hedge funder's hasty sale? Not due to the $1.8B fine he accrued after his firm pleaded guilty to insider trading, but instead—according to a lawyer close in the transaction—because he finds the area "too Jewish." Unsurprisingly, Cohen has hotly disputed any such claim. [NYO; previously]
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