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.”