The Docket
Over a year ago, I talked a little light-hearted smack about the Tyco guys and their antics and since yesterday, owing to their convictions for fraud and grand larceny, I’m getting boucoups hits. Oddly, though, many seem to want photos of Karen Kozlowski, the wife of the disgraced CEO. Perhaps they think she’ll be lonely soon.
I was so happy to see this conviction. While I don’t really think they’ll do any time, it’s a moral victory. While it was a state prosecution, I’m just waiting for our corrupt and venal justice department to find a way to intervene. They’ve already helped the tobacco companies skate from a certain comeuppance, and I suspect them of punting the Scrushy/HealthSouth prosecution as well, not the least by allowing the trial to take place in Birmingham, where Scrushy has achieved icon status for garrulous televangelizing and, apparently, managing to transform himself from a rich white corporate criminal into an oppressed black man. A jury of Alabamans is apparently at a standstill after a couple of weeks of deliberation. Any bets for this Justice Department re-trying him?
Still, we have the Kozlowski/Schwartz conviction to savor for a few days.
