New York Post Online Edition: news: “3G BUY OF SCOUT’S FORTUNE COOKIES
By KIERAN CROWLEY
March 14, 2005 — A ‘cookie angel’ has bought 1,000 boxes of a Long Island Girl Scout’s goodies in hopes of sweetening her recent unpleasant encounter with the NYPD.
‘Gracemarie Louis seems like a really nice girl who got caught in a situation,’ said Manhattan investment banker Ernie Dahlman, 35, of Dahlman Rose & Co.
He’s donating the $3,500 worth of cookies to the Island Harvest food program %u2014 on behalf of New York’s Finest.
The police officer who ticketed Gracemarie’s dad, Hoi Louis, for helping sell cookies on a Brooklyn street without a license was just doing his job, Dahlman reasoned.
‘There is no cop out there who says, ‘I’m going to bust this guy for selling Girl Scout cookies,’ ‘ he said. ‘If I can show support of the cops and of a nice girl, that’s great.’
‘That’s amazing!’ said a stunned Gracemarie when given the good news yesterday while delivering yet more cookies in her Bethpage neighborhood.
‘That beats all my rec-ords.’
She had already sold 600 boxes by the time of the March 5 incident in her old neighborhood of Williamsburg.
Post readers bought another 200 from her last week.
Dahlman’s generosity brought her total to 1,800.
He’s making a lot of kids happy, Gracemarie said, noting that her troop hopes to sell enough for a group trip to Disney World.
The lesson, she added, ‘is that there are still a lot of people who care %u2014 and this guy really cares.’
Her grandma agreed.
‘He’s not a cookie monster,’ Grace Taras said. ‘He’s a cookie angel.'”
Oh, we are going to give him such a hard time over that nickname…
Thats LV Ernie’s son? & your his partner’s son? I saw LVE in action at LV Sands-incredible uh..investor.
That’s him. How did you see him working?
Once upon a time I was a casino worker (race/sportsbook writer) out in Vegas. Also, then and now I’m a horseplayer myself so I am aware of the H & D partnership for trainer Hushion.
I just wrote tickets for “civilians” at the Sands so I never got to know him, but his exploits were no secret amongst the co-workers-such as the day Hollywood Park had a huge Pick 6 carryover and I believe he hit it 3 or 4 times at ~$39k a pop. Seemed like a decent guy.