The murder of a stockbroker leads Briscoe and Green to a coworker of the victim, a coworker who is involved with a stock fraud scheme with ties to organized crime.The murder of a stockbroker leads Briscoe and Green to a coworker of the victim, a coworker who is involved with a stock fraud scheme with ties to organized crime.The murder of a stockbroker leads Briscoe and Green to a coworker of the victim, a coworker who is involved with a stock fraud scheme with ties to organized crime.
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Jean Leclerc
- Dr. Martin Alvarez
- (as Jean Le Clerc)
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Did you know
- TriviaA.D.A. Abbie Carmichael refers to the federal sentencing guidelines for securities and insider trading violations as "draconian." The term draconian refers to harsh and unforgiving laws and rules. The origin of the term is Draco, a lawgiver from 7th century BC Greece who is considered to be the father of the criminal justice system. Before then Greece had a system of oral law--in other words laws that were passed from person to person orally but were never written down or recorded--making it very easy for someone to just arbitrarily change a law. Draco is considered to be the first person in recorded history who created a written code of laws and punishment that were to be enforced by a court of law. Some of the legal terms he created are still used in modern times, one example being the distinction between murder and manslaughter. The people of Athens--tired of oral law being unduly changed and the blood feuds that resulted--hired Draco to create a written set of laws and asked him to enforce them. However, they didn't know that his laws would be strict and the punishments harsh. For example, if a debtor couldn't repay his creditor within a certain period of time, the debtor was sold into slavery. Draco also handed down the death penalty for minor offenses, such as stealing a piece of fruit.
- GoofsThe victim's boss, Carl Braddock, says that he can't discuss the lawsuit that was filed against his company because the settlement included a non-disclosure agreement. However a NDA created in a private settlement contract can't be enforced to prevent someone from disclosing information that is relevant to a criminal investigation, especially a homicide investigation. This is something that Detectives Briscoe and Green know and should have pointed out to Mr. Braddock.
- Quotes
Joey Dantoni, Sr.: My son's a moron but not a murderer.
A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: So he's only half a chip of the old block.
- ConnectionsReferences Mutt and Jeff Break Into Society (1911)
Featured review
Pump And Dumping the Mob
I have to say that this Law And Order episode shows that Wall Street can breed some truly carnivorous animals. And ones who carefully plan as well. It took quite a bit of digging before Jerry Orbach and Jesse Martin uncover the truth.
This story involves an apparently crazed investor who comes in and shoots a receptionist and a stockbroker at some firm. The stockbroker was the target and it looks like he was pressuring the higher ups in the firm about some insider trading and some pump and dump activity that was going on. The investor held on when he should have dumped and lost considerably.
It would be almost impossible to describe the layer of cover-up insulation the man responsible for all of this put between himself and the law. The perpetrator was Danny Mastrogiorgio who was in the second tier of supervisors at the firm. What he was doing working the pump and dumps on behalf of one of the crime families. And when our victim started pressuring Mastrogiorgio for more after an elaborate scheme involving a sexual harassment suit, the mob was a good and convenient answer for who was doing the killing.
Mastrogiorgio was a frightening human being, someone who was truly amoral in the pursuit of wealth. He should have been a made mob guy for what he pulled off. This was an idea he cooked up with an old high school buddy Frankie Dellarosa who was the son of the head of one of the crime families. But Mastrogiorgio rips them off too.
The highlight of this intricate episode is when Samuel E. Wright as Mastrogiorgio's defense attorney cross examines Mafia Don Vincent Curatola on the stand. Curatola is a guy who's seen the courtroom and been on a witness stand more than once. He is who he is and no apologies, but he's been ripped off and if the court doesn't find Mastrogiorgio guilty, Curatola will settle it his way. He and Wright have an incredible battle of wits, one of the best Law And Order ever had in one of their episodes.
Will Curatola have to do it his way? For that you watch this episode.
This story involves an apparently crazed investor who comes in and shoots a receptionist and a stockbroker at some firm. The stockbroker was the target and it looks like he was pressuring the higher ups in the firm about some insider trading and some pump and dump activity that was going on. The investor held on when he should have dumped and lost considerably.
It would be almost impossible to describe the layer of cover-up insulation the man responsible for all of this put between himself and the law. The perpetrator was Danny Mastrogiorgio who was in the second tier of supervisors at the firm. What he was doing working the pump and dumps on behalf of one of the crime families. And when our victim started pressuring Mastrogiorgio for more after an elaborate scheme involving a sexual harassment suit, the mob was a good and convenient answer for who was doing the killing.
Mastrogiorgio was a frightening human being, someone who was truly amoral in the pursuit of wealth. He should have been a made mob guy for what he pulled off. This was an idea he cooked up with an old high school buddy Frankie Dellarosa who was the son of the head of one of the crime families. But Mastrogiorgio rips them off too.
The highlight of this intricate episode is when Samuel E. Wright as Mastrogiorgio's defense attorney cross examines Mafia Don Vincent Curatola on the stand. Curatola is a guy who's seen the courtroom and been on a witness stand more than once. He is who he is and no apologies, but he's been ripped off and if the court doesn't find Mastrogiorgio guilty, Curatola will settle it his way. He and Wright have an incredible battle of wits, one of the best Law And Order ever had in one of their episodes.
Will Curatola have to do it his way? For that you watch this episode.
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- Oct 27, 2012
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