The 81-year old man in a suit confronted photogenic NewAlliance bank president Peyton Patterson, who had just won stock options worth $27 million in a rich bank merger.
Anthony DeMayo was speaking at the April 2006 stockholders meeting. “Our bank or your bank, if that’s how you want to look at it is the worst performing bank in the state,” DeMayo fumed. “I am not proud of that.”