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Fall of a Wall Street titan
He was making the rich richer at Lehman Brothers. He’d begun collecting European timepieces — and gotten himself a Porsche. He’d married his second wife and was well on his way to giving her everything her heart desired. Charles Hopper was the portrait of a Wall Street star. Until the day in 2007 when he was driven out the door at Lehman. The ouster was the beginning of the end for Hopper, kicking off a financial fall and an emotional ruin that provide a glimpse of the terrible legacy that lingers on, even among the wealthy, years after the economic crash. On leafy Horseshoe Road in the Greenwich suburb of Cos ... (full story)