Maybe if they trucked this house over to Rogues Hill it would sell better

1 Tinker Lane has renewed its listing at $3.150 million; same price as yesterday’s expired listing, and close to what its owner has been seeking for years. The house is ho-hum, and its location cheek-by-jowl to the Merritt is a turn-off, but the owner, stock-fraudster (and former owner of WGCH) Michael Better is a piece of work all by himself.

Metter helped run a “pump and dump” penny stock involving a worthless company called SpongeTech but, due to federal prosecutors’ ineptitude, he was permitted to plead guilty to securities fraud in exchange for a mere five-year probation sentence; his co-defendants received prison sentences and $12 million restitution penalties. .

Greenwich certainly attracts interesting characters.

michael metter or, as some of his victims call him, “mini-madoff”