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Article: Cocaine culture pushes London brokers to brink.(News)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- October 11, 2009
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Byline: Stephanie Baker and Thomas Penny Bloomberg News
LONDON u Neill Junor remembers the exact moment he decided to quit snorting cocaine.
On a chilly December afternoon in 2005, the former equities analyst took a stroll in LondonAEs deer-filled Richmond Park to select the tree from which he would hang himself.
The decision to step back from the brink marked the end of a six-year binge of drug and alcohol abuse that by then had cost Junor his marriage and a career that paid him as much as $1.7 million a year. He was out of work, having already walked away from both his analyst job at BT Alex. Brown and a subsequent position in a dot-com ...