Bradley Whitestone

For other uses of Brad, see Brad (disambiguation).

For other uses of Bradley, see Bradley (disambiguation).

Whitestone, Bradley “Brad”

Appeared in Calculated in Death (November, 2060)

Personal Information

• Description: A sharply attractive man in his early thirties
• Age: Early thirties
• Relationships: Unnamed father
• Occupation: Owner/Partner/Financial Consultant, WIN Group

Criminal History

• D&D from ten years ago

Interesting Facts

• He and Alva Moonie found Marta Dickenson’s body when they stopped by the townhouse after a date (dinner and then drinks at the Key Club). The WIN Group owned the property and were in the process of rehabbing it for office and living space.
• Second-generation money, but he was earning his own and doing just fine.
• He and Rob Newton went to college together, invested in their first property their first year of grad school - a dumpy little retail space on the Lower West Side, and it jump-started them as a team. They did most of the rehab work themselves, flipped it, dumped most of the profit into the market as partners, and made some more money.
• Worked for Prime Financial after college, while Rob worked for Allied, then they formed a company with Jake Ingersol, whom Rob had met at Allied and they bought another place together and flipped it; they used that money (“the WIN investment fund”) to start the WIN Group. Jake’s uncle gave them a subsidiary to manage and Brad’s father let them take over the management of a small lead trust.
• Projects cheerful competence.
• Eve summed up the WIN Group as: Newton was the smooth one, Whitestone was the charisma, and Ingersol was the hamster (go, go, get it done).
• Alva said Brad was courting her (and/or her portfolio) - they met at a fund-raiser a few weeks ago.
• Liked to scuba and took trips with that at the center.
• Peabody said his last serious relationship was mostly sad and a little resentful - “spent more time at work and with his friends than with me.”
• Had an inkling that Ingersol was up to no good but thought he was kidding around - had noticed a few suspicious purchases (a watch, a painting) that Ingersol was able to explain away.
  • About a year ago he and Ingersol were out drinking at a club, “it looked like I might lose the Breckinridge account... I was feeling pretty low. He laid out this whole idea for making money off land deals. Setting up dummy companies, pulling in groups and selling off more shares than you had, then buying up the land yourself. Inflating or deflating the assessments. He drew up a chart on cocktail napkins.”
  • He thought Ingersol was joking around, messing around to cheer him up. “I said it sounded good if you didn’t mind cheating people, or going to jail for a couple decades. I even added a couple of ideas... I refined a couple of angles. He wrote them down... I said something about it being too bad we were honest, too bad we’d worked all those years to get our license, build our business and our rep, things we didn’t want to lose.”
  • Ingersol told him, “‘Big money buys big rep.’ I just laughed at him, and said something like big talk buys shit, and it was his turn to get the next round.”