“No one wanted to get anywhere near the mortgage department,” says Kronthal. Even Ranieri admits that “Jeffery’s decision to join the mortgage department was regarded as remarkably stupid.” So why did Kronthal join? “I looked at it and said, one, I’m twenty-three years old and it doesn’t matter if it doesn’t work out. I don’t have to support anything but my own drinking. And, two, the firm must have faith in mortgages or they wouldn’t have Lewie doing it.”
