>On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> NYSE Chief Meets Top Colombia Rebel Leader
>>
>> BOGOTA (Reuters) - The head of the New York Stock Exchange held
>> face-to-face talks Saturday with a leader of Colombia's main Marxist
>> rebel group, government sources said.
>
>Does this guy Grasso do this a lot? And he seems to have gone on his own
>recognizance?
>
>Michael
Grasso most emphatically does NOT do stuff like this. This is bizarre. My impression is that he's a lifelong NYSE employee who worked his way up in the organization from the stock list department, where he became VP. He was at some point a Senior VP for public information before reaching the top. Supposedly his constituency at the NYSE is the floor (members who make their money on commissions & specialist books), though he must have lots of major corporate contacts from stock list and from his eminence over the last ten years. As far as I am aware his only public 'political' activity has been job related - like being cuddly with whomever was mayor of NYC.
Hostage negotiations for someone really big?
john mage