Occupy Wall Street protesters stay at $700-a-night hotel

NY Post ^ | Nov 20, 2011 | CANDICE M. GIOVE

[Second Amendment First]

Hell no, we won’t go — unless we get goose down pillows.

A key Occupy Wall Street leader and another protester who leads a double life as a businessman ditched fetid tents and church basements for rooms at a luxurious hotel that promises guests can “unleash [their] inner Gordon Gekko,” The Post has learned.

The $700-per-night W Hotel Downtown last week hosted both Peter Dutro, one of a select few OWS members on the powerful finance committee, and Brad Spitzer, a California-based analyst who not only secretly took part in protests during a week-long business trip but offered shelter to protesters in his swanky platinum-card room.

“Tents are not for me,” he confessed, when confronted in the sleek black lobby of the Washington Street hotel where sources described him as a “repeat” guest.

Spitzer, 24, an associate at financial-services giant Deloitte, which netted $29 billion in revenue last year, admitted he joined the protest at Zuccotti Park several times.

“I’m staying here for work,” said Spitzer, dressed down in a company T-shirt and holding a backpack and his suitcase. “I do finance, but I support it still.”

During his stay, hotel sources said, he and other ragtag revolutionaries he brought into the hotel lived like 1 percenters. He would order up a roll-out bed to accommodate guests, they said.

“He’s here all the time,” a hotel source said. “We all see him at the protest.”

Spitzer denied sheltering Occupiers. He claimed he only invited in a blogger buddy living at the park to wash off his camp grime.

Meanwhile, Dutro, 35, one of only a handful of OWS leaders in charge of the movement’s $500,000 in donations, checked in on Wednesday, the night after police emptied Zuccotti Park.

[dirtboy]

Some animals really are more equal than others.

[scooby321]

Got to have a Trust fund.

He would not put his career on the line talking to the newspaper.

[Second Amendment First]

Some animals really are more equal than others.

Next thing you know, they'll be walking on two legs. (But still defecating on the sidewalk.)

[Second Amendment First]

Bradley Spitzer

Title

Associate at Deloitte Financial Advisory Services

Demographic info

Orange County, California Area | Financial Services

Current:

Associate at Deloitte Financial Advisory Services

Past:

Researcher at NASA JPL

Education:

University of California, Los Angeles

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Bradley Spitzer

Associate at Deloitte Financial Advisory Services

Location

Orange County, California Area

Industry

Financial Services

Bradley Spitzer's Overview

Current

• Associate at Deloitte Financial Advisory Services

Past

• Researcher at NASA JPL

Education

• University of California, Los Angeles

Connections

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Bradley Spitzer's Experience

Associate

Deloitte Financial Advisory Services

March 2011 – Present (9 months)

Provide valuation and financial consulting services across diverse industries including media, entertainment, retail, professional services, financial institutions and real estate. Perform valuations of intangible assets for the purposes of financial reporting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, bankruptcy, tax reporting and planning, and litigation support for trials and arbitrations.

Researcher

NASA JPL

June 2008 – August 2009 (1 year 3 months)

Studied the effects of aersol transport and aerosol optical depth on snow albedo in the Sierra Nevada Mountains through observations from the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) instrument onboard Aqua and Terra Satellites. Conducted research on behalf of JIFRESSE (Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Sciences and Engineering) between UCLA and JPL Pasadena.

Bradley Spitzer's Education

University of California, Los Angeles

BS, Math, Atmoshperic, and Oceanic Sciences

2005 – 2009

Activities and Societies: UCLA Unicamp

Bradley Spitzer's Additional Information

Groups and Associations:

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  Deloitte US & US India Alumni

Honors and Awards:

Governor's Scholar Award

[therightliveswithus]

Hypocrisy defined

[pieceofthepuzzle]

When I think of how many people in their 60s or even older who are struggling in this economy, worrying every day, many having had their savings and retirement accounts decimated, it makes me sick to see this 24 year old a****le staying at a $700/night Manhattan hotel while pontificating to the rest of us.

[bert]

The really bad part is that he was on a company tab. The company was paying the bill

I take this to mean he is all show and no real substance. He claims to be what he is really not. He visited the park soley to get the medal. The roughed up CBS journalist in Egypt was there to get the campaign medal for her resume

[Walkingfeather]

My bet he is an idiot. Bet he has a pink slip on monday.

[6SJ7]

Peter Dutro, one of a select few OWS members on the powerful finance committee...

My, how quickly these egalitarians create their own elite.

[Second Amendment First]

Well who would you want on your finance committee? An accountant or a deranged bum?

[Seabeejas]

Someone close to me works for this company. Reaction: “He’s going to be fired. This is something we’re told we cannot do.” Deloitte is one of the five largest accounting firms in the world. They are a very good company to work for. This guy is a fool.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

while pontificating to the rest of us.

That's the real issue. I don't care how much money he makes or how he spends it. Nunna my damned bidness.
But someone who makes that kind of scratch has very much earn the right to STFU.

[jazzlite]

...”When I think of how many people in their 60s or even older who are struggling in this economy, worrying every day, many having had their savings and retirement accounts decimated, it makes me sick to see this 24 year old a****le staying at a $700/night Manhattan hotel while pontificating to the rest of us”...

I am remembering a quote from somewhere which says something like, “When youth rule, the people are brought to mourning.” This 24 year mortal is sickening, but as long as he is bathed in money, he will not realize it.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

What needs to happen is a class action lawsuit needs to be filed against these shietbags by all the cab drivers, restuarant workers, maids and other low income people who lost money when they couldn’t get to work because these slimebags were holding up traffic and clogging bridges. They want to help the poor, let them reimburse the couple million of people who keep getting screwed when these Marxist attention whores want to play radical.

[mac_truck]

The really bad part is that he was on a company tab. The company was paying the bill

DeLoitte is a consulting firm so this punk's expenses and possibly some of his protest time are probably being billed to some firm on Wall Street.

Whoever has an account at DeLoitte that this cretin works on should complain loudly.

[Sooth2222]

Either his career at DeLoitte is going to be severely limited, or he’s going to become their CEO.

[Travis McGee]

In Obama's Army, the self-appointed generals don't want to stay with the privates.

[deoetdoctrinae]

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