Dick Fuld remains a Wall Street pariah. The ex-Lehman CEO Fuld and many of the company’s former executive team are unloved on the Street years after presiding over the epic implosion of one of the world’s most storied investment banking franchises. Although Fuld has been actively reaching out to his contacts since Lehman filed for the largest bankruptcy in history five years ago today, he hasn’t managed to resurface in any big way. Fuld spends most of his days at the Midtown office of his consulting and advisory firm, Matrix Advisors, sources say. Wall Street execs are happy to talk or break bread with him discreetly, but to do business with him in the public eye is a nonstarter, one source noted. Sources say they’ve noticed a change in Fuld from the animated, hard-nosed character he once projected. One former Lehman employee said they’d recently run into Fuld entering a building. The former Lehman chief , known as “The Gorilla” for his take-no-prisoners mentality, offered nothing but a blank stare by way of greeting and said nothing to the ex-staffer. “It was weird. He sort of just gave me an icy stare,” the ex-employee said. “I couldn’t really interpret it.” “I wouldn’t say it’s been a pleasant retirement,” said Larry McDonald, a former Lehman official and author of a book on Lehman’s collapse, “A Colossal Failure of Common Sense.” Another once high-flying exec, former Lehman Chief Financial Officer Erin Callan, has essentially disappeared from Wall Street. Fuld’s former right-hand man, Joseph Gregory, has been trying to sell assets, including his $22 million mansion. To be sure, some of Lehman’s top bosses have flourished in the new, post-Lehman world. Former Lehman Chief Operating Officer Bart McDade and head equities trader Alex Kirk launched an investment fund. Lehman alumni will get a chance to revisit old times on Tuesday at the B.B. King Blues Club in Times Square, where a fifth-anniversary reunion is being held to benefit the 9/11 Memorial Foundation.
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