Bleidt, Brad
From Astro-Databank
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| Birthname | Bradford Chester Bleidt | ||
| born on | 12 March 1954 | ||
| Place | Charleston West Virginia, USA, 38n20, 81w37 | ||
| Timezone | EST h5w (is standard time) | ||
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| Astrology data |   21°35'   or 
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Biography
American embezzler. Bleidt was by all accounts a successful and wealthy businessman, founder and president of an asset management firm and the cofounder and CEO of a financial planning service. He and his wife, a fellow financial planner had a successful radio show on Boston’s WMEX. In January 2004, he bought a small radio station, WBIX, for $13.2 million and on June 8, 2004, agreed to sell it. But in the first week of November, before the deal could be finalized, Bleidt tried to commit suicide just after returning home from a party. On Friday, November 12, 2004, federal agents received a videotape that explained why such an apparently successful man had become so desperate. On the tape he confessed that he had purchased the radio station by embezzling from his clients’ investment accounts and that he had misappropriated tens of millions of dollars of his clients' money over 20 years. Many of his clients had trusted him with their life savings, hoping for a comfortable retirement.
Bleidt's world of extravagant living began to cave in when a client, a Greek Orthodox Church from Weston, MA, wanted $1.5 million of its money that Bleidt could not produce. Bleidt vowed that he would cooperate with the FBI, local authorities, and the SEC in their investigation of the case. His assets have been frozen, his passport revoked, and he is on a suicide watch.
Relationships
- child relationship with Bleidt, Travis (born 28 May 1987)
Events
- Financial Crime Perpetration November 2004 (Confessed to embezzliing clients' funds over a 20-year period)
- Social : Institutionalized - prison, hospital 2004
- Mental Health : Depressive episode November 2004 (Unsuccessful suicide attempt)
- Financial : Lose significant money November 2004
Source Notes
Frances McEvoy quotes his son's birth certificate for date and place ("So. Charleston"), but without time
Categories
- Passions : Criminal Perpetrator : Thief/ Financial crime
- Passions : Criminal Perpetrator : Prison sentence
- Diagnoses : Psychological : Depression
- Lifestyle : Financial : Loss - Financial crisis
- Lifestyle : Financial : Extravagant
- Vocation : Business : Entrepreneur
- Vocation : Business : Business owner
