Jameson Feyrer (1965-2034)
Best known for his involvement in the "Empty Suit" patent scandal of the early 21st Century, Jameson Feyrer got his start after receiving his MBA from the Wharton School. He began work for a venture capital investment firm in New York City: Bennett, Jaffe, and Geller Investments, which specialized in high tech development. In the mid-1990's, Feyrer was integral, along with Richard Bodio, in convincing Bennett, Jaffe, and Geller to invest in a company named Black Helicopter Productions, a San Francisco company that invented the Black Box, a product able to integrate electronic devices to an extent and with a speed never before possible. However, a short time after Bennett, Jaffe, and Geller invested $30 million dollars in Black Helicopter, the company collapsed after the arrest and accidental death of its founder and president, Saul Hampton (who had been living in San Francisco under the false identity of Sidney Pinkwater).
Faced with the loss of the entire investment, Feyrer apparently hit upon the scheme of falsifying documents to indicate that instead of investing in Black Helicopter, Bennett, Jaffe, and Geller had bought it outright, including all patent application for the Black Box product. In the confusion that followed the death of Hampton, this legal slight of hand went undiscovered by Black Helicopter employees, and Bennett, Jaffe, and Geller created a company called Black Box, headed by Feyrer himself, who quickly brought the Black Box to market, where both the hardware and software technology was integral to the network convergence of the 2005-2015 period.
Unfortunately for Feyrer, in 2008, three people surfaced who brought lawsuits against Feyrer for theft. Two of the people were a woman named Jane Fremont and her 18-year old son Sidney. Fremont, a former dancer in Las Vegas, presented documents recognizing her son as the illegitimate child of Saul Hampton, along with a heretofore unknown Will for Hampton that left all ownership in Black Helicopter and its associated patents to his son. Complicating the matter was the testimony of a the third former employee of Hampton's named Edward Gibson, who had been present at the meeting when Bennett, Jaffe, and Geller had agreed to invest in, but not buy, Black Helicopter. He produced a copy of minutes from the 1996 meeting, initialed by Jameson Feyrer.
The name of the scandals came from the moment when Jane Fremont interrupted Feyrer's testimony during the trial by screaming obscenties at him and calling him an "empty suit". The New York Post dubbed the trial, and the various revelations about Jameson Feyrer (a man who had been called the "New Bill Gates" by Time Magazine the year before), the Empty Suit Scandal.
Jane Fremont won her case, and Jameson Feyrer was eventually bankrupted, though the stature of limitations had expired on any criminal charges.
Feyrer died in 2034 during the New Typhoid outbreak in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he had been, oddly enough, living under the false name of Saul Pinkwater.
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