Back at his office at CICIG, Castresana gathered a dozen or so of his top investigators.
Here's how it works: kaChing has gathered a dozen top investors, many of them professionals, which it has certified to be "Geniuses".
The producers, Stacy Labriola and Patti Pelican, have gathered a dozen musicians, including the guitarist Peter Calo of North Salem, a member of Carly Simon's touring band, will play original songs.
It gathers a dozen portraits of men in the hip-hop world, including the entrepreneur Russell Simmons, the fashion designer and graffiti champion Marc Ecko, and the rappers Kanye West, Snoop Dogg and 50 Cent.
Adam Kaufmann, a top deputy to Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, gathered about a dozen of his senior staff members in a conference room recently and posed a question: How was the storm of public scrutiny surrounding the district attorney's office affecting prosecutors' moods?
As a child, the Mets' John Franco would gather about a dozen of his friends and make the three-mile walk from his home on Stillwell Avenue in Brooklyn over to Coney Island.
He had gathered a panel of half a dozen students.
Then we got to work: Lauren gathered half a dozen buckets of fresh snow and fed them into a giant pot on the propane cooktop to make drinking water, while I split some logs from a huge woodpile behind the cabin to feed the wood stove.
In March, the same month General Motors dropped the bombshell that it might lose $850 million in the first quarter, the company gathered a clutch of two dozen or so journalists and flew them, some on a GM company jet, to California, where it put them up at luxurious hotels in San Francisco and Santa Monica.
