"Was That Michael Padfield?"

Today brought yet another legal entanglement for the lawyer also know as Marc Dreier, sole partner of the Olsen-twin-representing firm Dreier LLP. Dreier just made bail in Toronto. He's alleged to have impersonated Michael Padfield, Senior Investment Counsel for the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, for the purpose of snookering Fortress Investment Group out of $50 million. Dreier will return to New York to face an unrelated SEC complaint alleging he's been selling phony securities.

Dreier continues the tradition, pioneered by Thomas Haythe, of Manhattan lawyers embarrassing themselves in Canada.