| Jack Latimer | |
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Played by |
Leon Rippy |
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Introduced |
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Jack Latimer is a professional investor who uses the outcomes of the the Leverage team's activities to make a series of lucrative investments. He first makes his presence felt by bugging Nate's condo. Soon after, he calls Nate, requesting the team take over contracts he had with the recently disgraced Reed Rockwell. Nate refuses, but suggests a face-to-face meeting. Latimer declines, and after making a few cryptic comments about Nate thinking he's a good guy, concludes the call, without introducing himself.
Hardison eventually tracks him down at the end of the Boiler Room Job. Latimer is a farm boy that won a scholarship to the University of Chicago and then started his own business in 1985 by mortgaging his house. He now runs an investment firm with assets totalling half a billion dollars. Hardison tracked him through his investment in VerdAgra but he was also involved in Merced Financial (Long Way Down Job), DuberTech, Wakefield, and Ernshell Pharmaceuticals; all companies that were burned by Nate Ford and his crew. When Nate Ford originally hears about him he assumes that they caused him to lose a lot of money and thus wants revenge. Hardison then tells him that he made money. Three years ago, his fund had money in Pierson Aviation and so he had the C.E.O., Steve Pierson, under surveillance to gain just standard background information. Then, when Victor Dubenich started screaming his head off about con men, nobody believed a word except Latimer had photos of a man handing Pierson a bag full of hard drives. Latimer could have turned them in but realised that Bering Aerospace stole that research and so their stock was valued on a lie, a lie which devalued other companies. Latimer came to the conclusion that Nate Ford and his crew were not villains but a market correction. He thus spent a lot of money trying to uncover who they were and although Hardison covers their tracks very well, after a while, he had enough to figure out what their pattern was, and figured out what their next move would be. Once he knew their next moves he bet against their targets so that when destruction was rained down upon them he could profit in the wreckage left behind.
He has a woman in his life called Marla, presumably his wife.
Appearances
Season 4
- The Boiler Room Job