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Lenny Dykstra read a report online the other day that said he had just launched a website to dispense investment advice, 13 months after he was released from a federal penitentiary.
He lobbed a profanity at the erroneous report during an interview on Thursday. He started his website, Nails Investments, in 2010, selling subscribers on his formula for buying stock options.
Five years earlier, he began picking stocks on TheStreet.com, an astonishing career detour for Dykstra, an aggressive and often reckless former Met and Philadelphia Phillie.
The site continued unabated while Dykstra served a six-and-a-half-month sentence in federal prison for bankruptcy fraud and other charges in 2012. His partner and editor, Dorothy Van Kalsbeek, already knew his system and wrote his column and picked his stocks, with his oversight. They consulted about the market in letters and during her visits to the penitentiary in Victorville, Calif.
On the day of his release, he called her to pick him up rather than use the prison-issued Greyhound bus ticket. “I’d never been on a Greyhound bus before, and I had $5 to spend,” he said.
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After serving six and a half months in federal prison, Lenny Dykstra is hoping for another chance at credibility and wealth.CreditFrank Franklin II/Associated Press
A conversation with Dykstra, especially one that stretches for more than two hours, is a rare and peculiar experience. He is foul-mouthed and funny, juvenile and intelligent, intense and prone to mumbling.
I wanted to know about his 13 months as a free man. He understood, but he found it difficult to stay on topic for very long. So he toggled through topics as if unmoored in a tightly packed mindscape. He leapt from his arrest and bankruptcy to his sons, Cutter and Luke, who are minor league players, to Billy Beane, a former minor league teammate.
He skipped to his option-picking record — “I’m 445-1,” he said — and to his idea for a new venture. He did not divulge details but said, “I’m building a business because it’s what a man does.”
Dykstra then shifted to the autobiography that he is planning with the author Peter Golenbock, the movie that might be made about his life, the present state of the Phillies and the book he read in prison, John Grisham’s “King of Torts,” which he claimed was the first one he had ever read.
He chuckled when reminded of the difficulty of keeping him on point. “I put the A in A.D.D.,” he said.
Dykstra is living in Thousand Oaks, Calif., and said he had recently completed 500 hours of community service, much of it at the Hope of the Valley Rescue Mission, where he served meals to homeless people, helped in the thrift store and asked the Phillies to send memorabilia for an auction. “He was extremely motivated from the start,” said David Faustina, the mission’s general manager.
When Dykstra finally got around to describing his world since his release, he said, “My life for the past year has been my sons, community service, and don’t forget, peeing in the cup.”
He has two years of probation left and is drug-tested every week. He lives with his ex-wife, Terri, who said she had no plans to remarry him.
“He’s definitely been humbled,” she said. “He’s definitely learned what’s important. He’s still Lenny, with that headstrong personality, but he has changed in that he knows what he lost and why that happened. Family comes first to me. And Lenny was always good to me. But for a long time, I couldn’t reason with him. He wouldn’t listen. He was his own worst enemy.”
The details behind his financial downfall and incarceration are too elaborate to render here. But there is this: For a while, he lived a millionaire’s life but ended up bankrupt, jailed on state charges that included grand theft auto, and then in federal prison. The dark side of his recent past does not appear on his website.
“I became addicted to money,” he conceded. “Money was my drug, and a few other ones, too. But whatever. This is a pretty entertaining interview, isn’t it?”
Time and again, he returned to his stock-option savvy and that 445-1 record of success. He said he was preparing a marketing campaign that included a letter from the Securities and Exchange Commission that he believed would defeat any skeptics.
“The S.E.C. investigated me, and they were going to put me in jail,” he said. “I was 110-0, and everybody thought what I was doing was bull. It was crazy, man. The investigator tried hard but couldn’t punch any holes in it. I’m bulletproof.”
Kelly Bowers, a senior assistant regional director of the commission’s Los Angeles office, wrote to Dykstra on June 14, 2010, “The investigation has been completed as to Lenny K. Dykstra, against whom we do not intend to recommend any enforcement action by the commission.”
Dykstra said: “I’m on federal probation. I can’t lie that I’m 445-1 if I’m not 445-1.” Bowers declined to comment or to confirm the existence of the letter or any investigation.
Dykstra, 51, craves another chance at credibility, respect and wealth, without the legal and drug problems that put him in jail cells and rehab.
When asked if her ex-husband could stay out of trouble, Terri Dykstra responded with uncertainty.
“Nobody can answer that question,” she said. “It’s a day at a time; it’s establishing trust again. So I don’t know.”
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