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Bush_Eats_Beef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-05 03:05 PM
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Dennis "Toga Party" Kozlowski: 25 years in prison. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha HA!
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The Associated Press/NEW YORK
By SAMUEL MAULL
Associated Press Writer

Ex-Tyco execs receive prison sentences

SEP. 19 1:14 P.M. ET

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8CNF3R02.htm?campaign_id=apn_tech_down&chan=tc

L. Dennis Kozlowski, the former CEO of Tyco International Ltd., and former Tyco finance chief Mark Swartz were sentenced Monday to up to 25 years in prison for stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the company. The men, who were immediately ordered into custody, will be eligible for parole after serving eight years and four months.

Family members wept in the gallery as the sentences were imposed. Kozlowski was led out of the front of the courtroom in handcuffs as his wife quietly sobbed from a bench three rows back. State Supreme Court Justice Michael Obus ordered Kozlowski and Swartz to pay a total of $134 million in restitution; in addition, Kozlowski was fined $70 million, Swartz $35 million.

The sentences end a case that exposed the executives' extravagant lifestyle after they pilfered some $600 million from the company including a $2 million toga birthday party for Kozlowski's wife on a Mediterranean island and an $18 million Manhattan apartment with a $6,000 shower curtain.
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Craig3410 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-05 03:06 PM
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1. Is that the dude with the ice sculpture of David that pissed vodka?
:rofl:
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Bush_Eats_Beef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-05 03:10 PM
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4. That's the one!
And Jimmy Buffett singing "Brown Eyed Girl" while his mistress swooned.

:rofl:
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MN ChimpH8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-05 03:07 PM
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2. That pig should have to do every last second of
Edited on Mon Sep-19-05 03:09 PM by MN ChimpH8R
the full 25 years, and every nickel he or any of his family made after he became head of Tyco should be forfeited.

edited for typo
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LeftHander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-05 03:09 PM
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3. Justice....if a poor man stole $10,000 he would do no less.
Edited on Mon Sep-19-05 03:09 PM by LeftHander
than 25 years eligble for parole in 8.

I am not weeping for Kozlowski...
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nickgutierrez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-05 03:11 PM
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5. Not enough, but I guess it'll do.
He's not going to a Club Fed, is he?
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-05 03:31 PM
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13. Do you doubt it?
He has to stay somewhere till * pardons him on 1/19/09.
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-05 03:35 PM
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16. No Club Fed - these were NY state felony charges. He's going "upstate."
There aren't any nice prisons in the NY state system. For that matter, there aren't any safe ones.
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Geoff R. Casavant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-05 04:59 PM
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18. State Prison -- excellent
You want chills, find the part in Scott Turow's first fictional novel, Presumed Innocent, where it discusses sending someone to state rather than Fed prison. It gave me the willies for days and still creeps me out.

Just a taste -- "I've got no teeth!"
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-05 03:11 PM
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6. Actually, just over 8 years, not 25...
You and I both know that he'll make parole on the first try.
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Bush_Eats_Beef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-05 03:13 PM
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7. Yeah, probably...
...but just for a moment I'd like to savor the sound of "25."

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Jacobin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-05 03:15 PM
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9. Likely 6 years at club fed
for stealing gazillions.

It's nothing at all.

He fucking got away with it.
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-05 03:20 PM
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12. True dat
Half dozen years in a lo-rent country club ain't spit. If he'd give me half the cash he's got left, I'd do his time for him.
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-05 03:34 PM
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15. He's not going to Club Fed. He's going upstate in NEW YORK.
Them places are not exactly known for their hospitality and fringe benefits, to say the least.
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-05 03:39 PM
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17. With his money and pull he could rent the warden's apartment.
He'll be inconvenienced, nothing more. Never see him in the mix with the 'real' criminals.
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gollygee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-05 03:14 PM
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8. So they steal $600 million and have to pay back $200 million
Not a bad take
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wryter2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-05 03:16 PM
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10. OMFG
Are any of the others smart enough for this to act as a deterrent?
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-05 03:17 PM
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11. He looks like Mr. Burns.
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Vinca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-05 03:33 PM
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14. This guy must be really dimwitted to boot.
Isn't this a mandatory sentence? Couldn't this turn out to be life? With all that cash I'd have made tracks out of the country a week or so ago, passport or no passport. Money talks. That said, I'm happy as a clam he's going to the big house.
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-05 05:05 PM
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19. Looks like Tim Russert without hair.
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