Creators of ‘Most Wanted’ Execs Cards Standing Pat

The small company that publishes the parody playing cards “Shareholder’s Most Wanted” has opted not to fold ‘em.

Fairness & Justice for Shareholders Inc. said Friday that it would continue to keep all its aces, including Gary Winnick, the former chairman of Global Crossing Ltd. Winnick made more than $500 million before the onetime Beverly Hills company filed for bankruptcy protection.

Fairness & Justice was founded this spring in Salt Lake City by Nadira Brandenburg and her husband, Lynn, a Prudential Securities stockbroker. The couple say they have sold about 600 of the 10,000 decks they printed of controversial Wall Street tycoons and stock analysts. The decks are modeled after the playing cards depicting the Pentagon’s most-wanted members of Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq.

Winnick’s attorney sent a cease-and-desist letter to Lynn Brandenburg -- and his employer -- on June 26. The letter stated that the cards “violate Mr. Winnick’s right to privacy and are defamatory.”

In a July 3 response, Brandenburg’s lawyer, Bruce Pritchett, wrote that his client had agreed to stop “disseminating or exploiting” the cards.

But on Friday, Nadira Brandenburg made clear that though her husband wasn’t handling the cards anymore, she had no intention of pulling Winnick from the $9.99 deck. “It’s the principle of the thing,” she said. “We didn’t say anything on that card which isn’t true.”

A spokesman for Winnick couldn’t be reached Friday.