Quick headlines from the Bitter Newsroom:
The son of a Democratic Tennessee State Representative has been indicted for hacking into Sarah Palin’s personal email account. The length that some kids go to impress their parents is amazing. [RTTNews]
The man, the myth, the H. Rodgin “Rodge” Cohen. He’s Sullivan & Cromwell’s chairman and Wall Street’s most in-demand, influential lawyer. With all that power, he must be an all-work-and-no-play kind of a guy. Ol’ Rodge “No Hobbies” Cohen, right? Wrong. “Mr. Cohen comfortably straddles different realms. He harbors fascination for both obscure banking regulations and pop star Sheryl Crow.” [Wall Street Journal]
A New York sanitation worker can earn up to $67,141 a year after more than five years of work. When some lawyers hear this, their reactions are sometimes a little less than approving. “Subtract student loan payments from salary (plus 3 years of lost income due to law school) and even lawyers 5 years out at ID sewers like WEMED making 80 K are STILL worse off than … garbage men!” Who’s in the dumps now? [NYC.gov | JD Underground]
You have the right to a jury of your peers, but what if your jury includes a member of your alleged victim’s peer group: a murder victim? Having been stabbed, killed…and then resuscitated, a woman refers to herself as having been murdered to avoid jury duty. [New York Post]
Plea deals aren’t for pop stars. Britney’s invalid driver’s license case is going to trial. [OMG!]
Easy come, easy go. The former general counsel at USB “has agreed to pay $6.5m to settle claims of insider trading in relation to the collapsed auction rate securities market.” [Financial Times]
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Kinda feel bad for the kid who broke into Palin’s email account. I mean really- who HASN”T thought about doing that? Ex boyfriends, co-workers, if you just know what elementary school they went to, dog’s name or first car…pretty easy to break the “secret question” and set a new password….almost too easy…
hmm…I’ve said too much.
Colleen, please give us your e-mail ID so that we can find out if you’re really a closet male.