HAITI BANKS ON FRIENDS IN FINANCE MILLIONS POUR IN

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The devastating earthquake that ripped through Haiti in January hit close to home for Deutsche Bank's Essien Leroy, even though the trading technologist was safe in his Brooklyn home, The native Haitian, 44, has lived in the U.S. since 1973 but still has family in the country and visits once a year. He flew to the Dominican Republic with his wife three days after the massive quake tore through Haiti's most populated areas, killing well over 100,000 people. (No official tally has emerged, as many bodies remain buried, but estimates have been as high as 200,000.) From Santo Domingo, along with a Dominican media crew, the couple caught a military helicopterto Port-au-Prince. The devastation was overwhelming.