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Lalit Bahl
Lalit Bahl
Born	Lalit Rai Bahl; July 30, 1943; Sheikhupura, Punjab
Died	August 24, 2025 (aged 82); East Setauket, New York
Education	IIT Kharagpur (Bachelor of Technology)
Occupation	Senior Researcher at Renaissance Technologies

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Lalit Rai Bahl (born 1943) was an IBM manager and senior researcher at hedge fund Renaissance Technologies.

Early life and education

tbd. will use Boaz Weinstein as example.

Career

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Philanthropy

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Personal life

Weinstein is a skilled poker and blackjack player. He had become interested in blackjack since the early 1990s and learned card counting after reading Edward O. Thorp's Beat the Dealer.^[1] He often played with a secretive blackjack team from MIT which has been profiled in the book Bringing Down the House, later adapted into the film 21.^[2] Weinstein is reportedly on the blacklist of several casinos as a card counter.^[2]^[3] In 2005, Warren Buffett invited him to play in a celebrity poker tournament where Weinstein won a Maserati.^[4]^[5]

In 2010, Weinstein married Tali Farhadian in Manhattan.^[6] The pair divorced in 2024. ^[7] His former wife is a Democrat who served in the Obama Department of Justice and ran for Manhattan District Attorney in 2021.^[8]

The couple has three daughters.^[9]

In 2012, Weinstein bought a $25.5 million property on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, from the estate of Huguette Clark.^[10]^[11]

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↑ Patterson 2010, p. 92.
1 2 Cite error: The named reference :1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
↑ Patterson 2010, p. 6.
↑ Roche, Julia La (July 10, 2012). "The Fabulous Life And Career Of Legendary Trader Boaz Weinstein". Business Insider. Archived from the original on July 12, 2012. Retrieved June 11, 2021.
↑ Burton, Katherine; Natarajan, Sridhar (July 28, 2020). "Boaz Weinstein Piles Up 90% Gain in Hamptons, Bets on More Chaos". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on July 28, 2020. Retrieved June 11, 2021.
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↑ Editor, Patrick Hosking, Financial Editor | Louisa Clarence-Smith, US Business (January 13, 2025). "Boaz Weinstein: the New York hedge fund manager taking on UK trusts". www.thetimes.com. Retrieved December 21, 2025. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
↑ "Manhattan DA Candidate Tali Farhadian Weinstein Skipped Years of…". New York Focus. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
↑ Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt (July 17, 2020). "Prosecutor, mother, refugee: Tali Farhadian Weinstein wants to be Manhattan's DA". The Forward.
↑ Carmiel, Oshrat; Kishan, Saijel (July 12, 2012). "Boaz Weinstein Buys Manhattan Co-Op Apartment for $25.5 Million". Bloomberg.
↑ Dedman, Bill; Newell, Paul Clark Jr. (2014). Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune. Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks. p. 348. ISBN 978-0-345-53453-8.

References

[FOOTNOTEPatterson201092-1] Patterson 2010, p. 92.

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[FOOTNOTEPatterson20106-3] Patterson 2010, p. 6.

[4] Roche, Julia La (July 10, 2012). "The Fabulous Life And Career Of Legendary Trader Boaz Weinstein". Business Insider. Archived from the original on July 12, 2012. Retrieved June 11, 2021.

[5] Burton, Katherine; Natarajan, Sridhar (July 28, 2020). "Boaz Weinstein Piles Up 90% Gain in Hamptons, Bets on More Chaos". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on July 28, 2020. Retrieved June 11, 2021.

[NYTWedding-6] Cite error: The named reference NYTWedding was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[7] Editor, Patrick Hosking, Financial Editor | Louisa Clarence-Smith, US Business (January 13, 2025). "Boaz Weinstein: the New York hedge fund manager taking on UK trusts". www.thetimes.com. Retrieved December 21, 2025. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[8] "Manhattan DA Candidate Tali Farhadian Weinstein Skipped Years of…". New York Focus. Retrieved December 21, 2025.

[9] Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt (July 17, 2020). "Prosecutor, mother, refugee: Tali Farhadian Weinstein wants to be Manhattan's DA". The Forward.

[apartment-10] Carmiel, Oshrat; Kishan, Saijel (July 12, 2012). "Boaz Weinstein Buys Manhattan Co-Op Apartment for $25.5 Million". Bloomberg.

[11] Dedman, Bill; Newell, Paul Clark Jr. (2014). Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune. Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks. p. 348. ISBN 978-0-345-53453-8.

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