FishbowlLA correspondent Tina Dupuy (in town for the annual mediabistro.com blogger meeting) and I were running late from Jeffrey Lewis‘s book party, so we got to the party for David Einhorn, the founder of the Greenlight Capital hedge fund, just as he was starting his speech by saying he didn’t know where to start thanking people for their help while he was writing Fooling Some of the People All of the Time, an account of the controversy he started when he accused Allied Capital of corrupt accounting practices in a speech six years ago. Then he told us he spotted his daughter, Rachel, raising her hand, indicating that he should start with her, so he did. Afterwards, while he talked to reporters, she continued to work the room. I’m told that Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan were seated in another part of the restaurant—Einhorn is a significant contributor to Fox’s foundation supporting Parkinson’s research—Tina and I didn’t spot them, but the publicists were happy to pass on a photograph…
In a speech earlier that day—for the same private group to which he made the Allied comments—Einhorn explained why he’s currently shorting Lehman Brothers.