The German exchange student who didn’t go home
August 24th, 2008 by fieldus
Ready-Made Rockefeller - NYTimes.com
The man with the eccentric accent, the tantalizing hints of family fortune and the impressive conversational knowledge of everything from physics to art to the stock market is actually Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, who grew up in Germany, came to the United States as a teenage exchange student and never left, not even contacting his family back home for the last 20 years.Tags: baltimore boss con deception gerhartsreiter kidnap mckinsey rockefeller world
more information from a family Christian lodged with in an article in the Hartford Courant.
another article in the Boston Globe looking at how Rockefeller was able to navigate his way to such a comfortable life.