A motivational speaker from Long Island was found strangled and stabbed in his car in East Harlem Thursday, hours after he was seen buying condoms.
Jeffrey Locker, 52, had his hands tied behind his back and a cord wrapped around his neck and tied to the headrest. He had been stabbed in the chest and robbed, police sources said.
Investigators suspect there were two killers in his 2007 Dodge Magnum in the Wagner Houses - one in the backseat with the cord and one in the front passenger seat with the knife.
Teens on the block said they saw Locker park the car on Second Ave. and walk into the nearby Wagner Deli about 3 a.m.
"He got out of the car and bought a bottle of water and a pack of Trojan condoms. He seemed cool, relaxed," said Whitney Young, 19. "The next time we see him, he's here dead."
Cops said they are checking to see if Locker had regularly visited a prostitute in the Wagner Houses on Wednesday nights.
Locker's wife, Lois, reported him missing Wednesday night when he did not return to his Valley Stream home.
It's unclear why he was in East Harlem.
"He was going into the city and coming home. He was supposed to be coming home," she said, without elaborating. "He was supposed to come home. He wasn't there by choice."
The victim was a father of three and a motivational speaker who ran "life-fulfillment" workshops and published self-help books, his Web sites said.
"He probably trusted someone," said his mother-in-law, Annette Serota. "He was a very trusting person. That's probably how it happened. You could sell him the Brooklyn Bridge."
Neighbor Robert Levine, 52, often took bike rides with Locker. "He was a nice, really great guy," he said. "He was a really wonderful father."
Locker was sued in April as an investor who profited from a $300 million, decade-old Ponzi scheme run by Lou Pearlman, former manager of boy bands including the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync.
Pearlman pleaded guilty in March 2008 to conspiracy, money laundering and presenting a false claim in bankruptcy court.
A bankruptcy trustee sued Locker to recoup roughly $371,000 he received from Pearlman's investment company, according to court papers filed in Orlando.
"I am mortified to be accused ... of participating knowingly in a Ponzi scheme," Locker wrote the court in May.
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Motivational speaker Jeffrey Locker strangled after 3 a.m. trip to East Harlem
NAACP Shows Some Class
Many people argue about NAACP these days, well, I don't want to add another argue, better article you can check it out below :
NAACP Shows Some Class [Roger Clegg]
Here’s what NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous had to say about affirmative action at the NAACP’s annual convention this week:
MR. JEALOUS: And we will need all those friends and many more because I'll tell you this: The days of Ward Connerly beating us at the ballot box are nigh. We are going.
You know, the only question about affirmative action isn't whether or not we need the hammer. The only question is whether or not the hammer is big enough.
You know Dr. King pointed out some time ago that poor black prisoners and poor black ‑‑ poor white prison guards have more in common than we don't ‑‑ have more in common than we don't. There are white people trapped in multigenerational poverty in this country. There are disabled veterans coming back from Iraq in droves.
And the only conversation about affirmative action should be in addition to there being a gender ‑‑ no replacement here ‑‑ in addition to there being gender‑ conscious affirmative action, in addition to there being race‑conscious affirmative action, if we should do as a country what so many college campuses have done with first‑ time college admissions and say there should be class‑ conscious affirmative action too. It should be class‑ conscious.
(Applause)
First, it’s nice that Mr. Jealous acknowledges, albeit indirectly, that, when put to a vote, racial preferences lose: That the NAACP’s defeat on this issue is indeed “nigh.”
Second, like Barack Obama, Mr. Jealous also acknowledges — again indirectly, but here unmistakably — that using race as a proxy for disadvantage really makes no sense: That Martin Luther King noted that there are lots of poor whites, as well as poor blacks (and, President Obama has added, plenty of privileged blacks — like his daughters — as well as privileged whites). To say nothing, of course, of rich and poor Asians, Latinos, Arab and Native Americans, etc.
Now, the Left will resist replacing race-based affirmative action with means-tested programs, but the logic of concessions like this is pushing them in that direction. And that’s a good thing. Class-based preferences may or may not make sense in this or that particular context, but they are never going to be as divisive and unfair as race-based preferences, and of course they do not raise the same constitutional and other legal issues.
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