CRAIG BLASS: Young Man About
Town
By all accounts, Craig Blass was living the high life,
and he loved it. Bachelor parties in Las Vegas, summer
weekends in the Hamptons, the social scene in the city.
But there was one other thing he really liked to do that
always seemed to surprise people. "He loved to go
shopping with me," said Mr. Blass's mother, Barbara
Blass. "My friends would say, `He still shops with you?'
And I'd say, `Oh, yes.' "
He splurged on himself, his mother and others because
"he was living the good life, making good money and
spending it because he made it," Mrs. Blass said. Mr.
Blass, 27, worked as an institutional stock trader for
Cantor Fitzgerald. He grew up in Greenlawn, on Long
Island, and cheered for the New Jersey Devils hockey
team. If he was not out at an athletic event or
socializing, he could probably be found on his mother's
couch, flipping through the sports channels with his
younger brother and their father. He also loved to
gamble.
"That was one of his joys," Mrs. Blass said. "But I
guess if you work on Wall Street you have that in you,
you gamble all the time."
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