Her husband out of a job, Silda Wall Spitzer has gone to work for a New York City hedge fund.

Samuel Israel III spent years fooling people, so it’s no surprise that police, as well as former associates and investors, are having trouble believing the convicted hedge fund manager committed suicide Monday.

Bear Stearns was under tremendous pressure on the weekend of June 17. Two hedge funds managed by the company were near collapse.

What did Richard Marin, chief of the asset management unit that oversees the funds, do? He went to the movies. Then he blogged about the film, Mr. Brooks. (Marin gave it a thumbs down.)

“I had been working 24-7 on this thing. Taking a small amount of time to clear my head seemed reasonable,” he told the New York Times.

The biggest beneficiaries of Blackstone Group’s public company debut last week were co-founders Stephen Schwarzman and Pete Peterson.

Schwarzman’s 24-percent stake in the investment firm is worth $7.7 billion and he could earn $677 million from the IPO, according to The New York Times. Peterson, who retains 4 percent ownership of the firm, earned $1.88 billion from the offering.