In 2016, Steve Levick, an owner of the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team who had amassed a tidy fortune on Wall Street, called Richie Gersten, the executive director of Brant Lake Camp, the picturesque boys’ camp in the Adirondacks that for generations has hosted the sons of New York’s most prominent Jewish families, including those of Ralph Lauren and Jerry Seinfeld.
From the outside, it appeared that Levick was living the Brant Lake dream. But in fact Levick, who had been thinking a lot about his childhood summers at the camp, given that its centennial was approaching, was calling to tell Gersten a secret that he had been carrying for 48 years: In 1968, when Levick was a 10-year-old camper, he was repeatedly molested by a 16-year-old Brant Lake counselor-in-training named Alan Monasch, who the camp had suggested be his Hebrew tutor when Levick’s mother called, asking them to find someone who could fill that role.
