The Sugarman Saga: Part Deux

September 18, 2007 |

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Stuart Sugarman, alleged hedge fund manager and investment banker with Sunrise Financial Group, is now out of the Lenox Hill hospital — and he’s not happy (despite his photo where he is brandishing flowers).  His alleged assailant, Christopher Carter, a broker with Maxim Investment Group has only been charged with a misdemeanor.

Fuming, Sugarman is quoted as saying: ”This wasn’t just a playground fall where Stewy fell down and went boo hoo … The reality is I spent two weeks in Lenox Hill [Hospital], including a week in ICU and six hours in surgery ….”

Now, while Sugarman admits …

that he noisily war-whooped, groaned and shouted, “You go, girl!” during his last spin workout Aug. 15 at an Equinox gym on East 85th Street. That, he says, didn’t give broker Christopher Carter, who was three bikes over, the right to repeatedly yell, “Shut the f- - - up!” and then leap off his Schwinn and come charging at him.

Stewy goes on to explain

 [that he] is accusing the allegedly berserk broker - both men top 200 pounds - of tilting Sugarman’s stationary bike’s front wheel up a yard off the floor and flipping the bike and Sugarman into a wall.

Sugarman suffered a concussion from the bike’s falling on top of him, along with damage to six discs in the vertebrae of his neck. His surgeon, he said, tells him he was “one click away from a wheelchair.”

While prosecutors

… declined to comment on the case. Carter’s lawyer, Michael Farkas, said only that his client “did not commit any criminal acts.”

“Mr. Sugarman is clearly taking advantage of the criminal-justice system to build some civil lawsuit,” he said. Sugarman has yet to file a suit.

Earlier: Psycho Pile-Drives Investment Banker

NY Post: Gym Victim is Wheely Angry

Deal Breaker: ‘Stuart Sugarman is Not Happy’ — Stuart Sugarman

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