Emanuel Pleitez: From East L.A. to City Hall?

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on February 8, 2013

Before delivering an extended policy speech on Feb. 5 at Los Angeles Trade Tech College, Emanuel Pleitez walked around a carpentry classroom meeting students. Pleitez (pronounced play-TEZ), 30, is the youngest and least-known of the leading candidates running for Los Angeles mayor; he is also a former management consultant and analyst at Goldman Sachs, but as he chatted with students about where they were from, he offered up anecdotes about his own childhood, growing up poor in South and East Los Angeles.

Wall Street shock wave in rear-view mirror

Published on March 19, 2012

On the day after his op-ed piece appeared in The New York Times of March 14, 2012, Greg Smith, a midlevel executive in the London office of Goldman Sachs had generated 19 million entries on Google. By three days later, that number had risen to 134 million.

Goldman banker always stuck to principles, former teacher

Published on March 15, 2012

Greg Smith was a principled and competitive student, the kind of person whose strong sense of right and wrong probably pushed him to resign from Goldman Sachs in a scathing letter to an international newspaper, his former teacher and coach said.

Greg Smith drops bombs (and a bagel) on his way out of Goldman Sachs

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on March 14, 2012