Harvard-->GS--> VC--> Prison?
Interesting writeup from bloomberg about a ex-GS banker who is currently in a Colombian Prison while he awaits his trial on securities fraud. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-20…
As a baby-faced entrepreneur, Kaleil Isaza Tuzman once symbolized the tech industry’s meteoric meltdown. Just years out of Harvard College and a stint at Goldman Sachs, he launched an Internet company only to see it collapse three years later. Today, he finds himself in a South American maximum-security prison, begging to return to the U.S to face securities fraud charges that could send him to an American jail cell for as long as 20 years. For now, he shares a 90-square-foot cell with an accused murderer and a drug trafficker in Patio 16, a wing of the Colombian prison reserved for often-violent defendants. Just how Isaza Tuzman, a 44-year-old U.S. citizen, ended up there is now the subject of a legal fight in New York. He was arrested in September in Colombia at the request of U.S. prosecutors after he was indicted for allegedly cheating investors in mobile-video company KIT Digital Inc. They said he was a risk to flee and now needs to go through Colombia’s extradition proceedings.
When I saw the title of this thread, I was expecting someone to be asking, "How does one go about following this path?"
I'm sure he wishes Colombian Prison had more exit ops
Lol classic college kid response. Few buds of mine went to Colombian Prison and got placed in a top cell group- all of them exited to Pablo Escobar legacy narcos firms. It's a bit harder from Mexican jails, but most still place well depending on your group to places like El Chapo Associates and PRI.
I'll be honest, that's what I wanted people to think when reading the title so it could have a good discussion. +SB
Is he going to a target or non-target prison? This shit's important
and what are the exit opportunities from each prison? pls respond.
Guantanamo is for the real BSDs. Equivalent to Blackstone or KKR. I've heard his prison does have more of a "hookup culture" though.
What's the comp / work-life balance life at Prison?
La Picota is like an M7 of the international criminal underworld. If this guy can't at least get a top spot supplying Colombian coke to the buyside cartels like the Sinoloas or Zetas he's not networking enough on the inside. Networking's a little tougher in prisons (you can't just send out emails or go to a cocktail hour and it usually includes fellatio and/or buggery but it's a small price to pay) but it's all about how much work you want to put it for the buyside lifestyle. He'll probably still be a middleman banker type though because to be on the buyside cartels you need some hard time in San Quentin (HSW equivalent) and have great EC's like being a Norteno or Sureno and a prestigious pre-incarceration stint at a place like MS-13. And this is totally racist and I swear they have quotas, but you have to be Mexican or Salvadorean-sorry white guys but it's as tough as an Asian getting into Cal. But this guy may be able to overcome his less than prestigious background by shanking a lieutenant (MD equivalent) on the inside. It's office politics but if you want to be a baller that's what it takes.
Despite the bizarre name the guy is actually Colombian and had dual citizenship. Too bad he isn't considered a MASP (Mexican, Argentinian, El Salvadorean, or Puerto Rican).
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