What is the world coming too?
‘Well-Dressed Groper’ Suspect Works in Private Equity
by Lisa Swan on April 16, 2012
New York City police have reportedly nabbed the “well-dressed groper,” a pervert who had been grabbing Manhattan women’s buttocks – and taking upskirt pictures. And it turns out that the suspect works in finance.
Karl Vanderwoude, 26, was arrested Friday. He worked as an operations coordinator for MVision Private Equity Advisors, although the website for the Madison Avenue-based firm has now removed his name, photo, and biographical information. Vanderwoude was charged with two counts of forcible touching, two counts of third-degree sexual abuse, and one count of unlawful surveillance, involving two alleged groping incicents.
There were reportedly four “well-dressed groper” incidents, and Vanderwoude has been charged in two. The first one took place on February 27, at East 67th Street and Second Avenue, where he is accused of groping the buttocks of a 19-year-old woman. The second allegedly occurred on March 30, where he is alleged to have touched the buttocks of a 22-year-old female standing at Chambers and Center Sts. In that case, he also allegedly used his cell phone to capture upskirt images of her.
But some people close to him say that the police have arrested the wrong man. Carmen Olmedo, his landlady in Park Slope, said she didn’t believe he is the “well-dressed groper” in question. “To me he doesn’t have to grope anybody,” she told the New York Daily News. “All he has to do is wink and they’d go chasing him.”
Javier Maldonado, a neighbor of the suspect, said he had attended Bible study gatherings Vanderwoude held in his apartment. “I hope he didn’t do it,” Maldonado told the News.
Friend Natasha Cerda told the New York Post that the arrest is “totally a mistake.” She said she knew the kind of man he was, and that “if he was this sick person,” Vanderwoude “would have done something to me because he had many chances to.”
Another friend says that the suspect does not closely resemble the man caught on surveillance video, telling the Post: “the guy has a shorter haircut. The eyebrows and face . . . It’s just not him.”
Lori Cohen, Vanderwoude’s defense attorney, argued to the the Daily News that the surveillance images caught of the groper were simply too generic to make an arrest from. “There was nothing in my mind distinguishing about those photos at all,” she argued, saying that “he looks no different than any well-dressed, dark-haired man in his 30s in New York.”
Vanderwoude was released on his own recognizance Friday. A tipster reportedly called the police about him, and he was picked out of a lineup by the victims.
Lisa Swan is a Feature Writer for the Compliance Exchange and Wall Street Job Report. She is also a columnist for The Faster Times and a blogger for Subway Squawkers. Her work has also appeared in the New York Daily News, Yahoo Sports, Huffington Post and the books Graphical Player 2011 and Graphical Player 2010.
what a scumbag!
The side effects of working in operations...
"“To me he doesn’t have to grope anybody,” she told the New York Daily News. “All he has to do is wink and they’d go chasing him.”"
Lol. I googled him and saw his picture. I don't think many women would want him winking at them.
Wait this is illegal? I do this shit all the time and chicks dig it (at least when I do it).
Yeah, if I'm some place chill and the convo is going well/flirty, I usually do this too (not the picture part).
Ladies watch out, his winking is deadly.
I didn't know that the world came anything in the first place.
I didn't know that the world came anything in the first place.
Boy, I'd hate to see what 1st degree sexual abuse is.
I love this new America where judgment is cast immediately, damn waiting for the facts.
Trayvon was also stalked and shot in cold blood by a ruthless white guy, right?
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-private-equity-firm-of-the-man-accus…
Karl Vanderwoude, an operations coordinator at MVision Private Equity Advisers, has been accused of being the well-dressed groper running amok in Manhattan.
Vanderwoude, who leads a Bible study outside of work, spoke to the New York Post since being labeled a suspect by the NYPD.
Basically, the 26-year-old told the paper that it's a case of "mistaken identity."
What's more is his Flatiron-based private equity firm employer seems to have his back.
From the Post:
Vanderwoude’s hopes to restore his name hang on purported new evidence gathered by his employer, MVision Private Equity Advisers. The firm claims it has e-mail records, video footage and co-worker accounts giving him a rock-solid alibi.
One of his co-workers even submitted a written statement claiming that Vanderwoude was with her having dinner and drinks at the time one of the attacks happened elsewhere in the city.
If the women pointed him out as the attacker, how is it a case of mistaken identity? Of course his friends are going to defend him. But I agree, due process needs to take its course.
lol, you do understand there are many people behind the walls convicted of murder just for the fact of eye witness testimony. And even better, victim testimony and you're screwed. All that matters is the jury thinks the testimonies are reliable.
Just FYI: this is why jumping to conclusions makes you look like an idiot
http://www.businessinsider.com/charges-against-the-alleged-gentlemen-gr…
Police said they originally arrested Vanderoude on an anonymous tip; it really sounds like someone had a personal bone to pick with Vanderwoude and took advantage of the "well-dressed groper" description to target Vanderoude. From the Post:
The tipster served up Vanderwoude to cops on a plate -- giving his name, address, cell phone, place of employment and the name of the person with whom he was living.
What? That's my point. Just because some chick pointed at this guy and said 'it was him' doesn't make it true. Innocent people can, and have been, convicted.
Not according to the justice system. There are a lot of guilty people in prison on eye witness testimony also. And of the innocent people, what do you think the percentages are to the guilty people. I don't think victims of crime have much motivate to point out a stranger and say he hurt me. Doesn't make sense.
double post
double post
Right so fuck the innocent people that got thrown in jail right? I mean 90% of the time they're right so that 10% are just colateral damage. Idiot.
I'm not excusing it, I'm just saying the way it is. Before DNA and all that stuff, would you want everyone that was a murderer to roam free if the justice system couldn't convict on a eye witness case? Sorry buddy, you should really get to know more judges and lawyers to know what you're talking about. Because at this point, you're sounding like a left wing kook.
BTW, You can die for treason if two eye witnesses can verify you betrayed your country. Look in the Constitution.
Looks like that one lady, Natasha, wants that guys nuts.
he works in ops for a placement agent... i guess that still constitutes as working in private equity, but still...
Sorry I'm of the whole, Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither camp. And, yes, you're sacrificing other people's liberty for your own sense of security.
I know plenty of both lawyers and judges which is completely irrelevant.
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