The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap Highlight

Rivett, Watsa, and the rest of the Fairfax executives had no way of knowing it at the time, but all this activity had been orchestrated by millionaire and billionaire hedge fund managers with bets against Fairfax, men who had gotten together and hired the aforementioned shadowy fixer extraordinaire Spyro Contogouris to commence a wide-ranging campaign of harassment against the firm. A hundred different antagonists with a hundred different names seemed to be descending upon the firm from all over the globe, but they were almost always just Spyro Contogouris, and a pseudonym, pretending to attack in force. The “P. Fate” letter had been written by one of Contogouris’s buddies, and Contogouris apparently had also dreamed up the late-night phone calls, specifically targeting Watsa’s secretary. The London journalist was Contogouris. He was Monty Gardener. He was everybody.