5W Public Relations is handling the Stuyvesant High School senior who earned fawning coverage in New York Magazine, Business Insider and New York Post for his bogus claim about making $72M on Wall Street during lunch breaks.
Mohammed Islam, who runs the investment club at the prestigious Manhattan school, told the New York Observer he made up the story though he "earned" a bundle making simulated trades.
The 12th grader made his pitch to New York because one of his father's friends worked there.
The Dec. 15-28 New York featured Islam as No. 12 on its tenth annual "Reasons to Love New York (Right Now)" list.
He's profiled as "the soft spoken son of Bengali immigrants from Queens and the president of the school's investment club" and "basically a genius."
New York said Islam was particularly enamored with wheeler-deal Paul Tudor Jones and though he was shy about the $72M figure confirmed a net worth in the "high eight figures."
Islam said of his investment fable "he's incredibility sorry for any misjudgment and any hurt I caused. I'm most sorry for my parents. I did something where I can no longer gain their trust."
The Observer notes that had Islam started with $100K on his first day of school at Stuyvesant he would have had to earn a 796 percent three-year compounded annual return to earn $72M.
There’s a fine line between newsjacking and taking advantage, aka ambulance chasing. Our job as PR professionals is to tread it carefully.
PR firms need to be mindful of ways their work product may be protected by the attorney-client privilege whenever working with a client’s internal legal team or its external legal counsel.
Manuel Rocha, former US ambassador and intenational business advisor to LLYC, plans to plead guilty to charges that he was a secret agent for Cuba.
CEO mentoring is an often-overlooked aspect of why CEOs are able to make good decisions, and sometimes make bad ones—all of which intersects with the role and duties of a board. 
How organizations can anticipate, prepare and respond to crises in an increasingly complex world where a convergent landscape of global challenges, threats and risks seem to arrive at an unrelenting pace.
Have a comment? Send it to 
No comments have been submitted for this story yet.