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...This has all the smell of a Richard Scrushy effort," says Mizzou alum Thomas Battistoni, a New York litigator who until recently sat on an alumni board for the MU College of Arts and Science, overseers of the economics department - and hence the chair. Scrushy, the former head of HealthSouth Corp., poured over $700,000 into Birmingham, Ala., churches and ministries during his felony trial in 2004, a coincidence noted with more than a little skepticism by his prosecutors. (Scrushy was acquitted). Battistoni raises similar questions about Lay?s attempt to divert the money to charities in the fall before...
...gift to the University of Missouri in 1999. It should not be used to enhance Mr. Lay's image in Houston when juries are about to be selected," Battistoni told TIME after learning of the attempt to reclaim the money. Lay's spokeswoman Kelly Kimberly rejected the Scrushy parallel, noting that the Lays were long-time philanthropists, who gave nearly $25 million to non-profits between...
...search for an academic to fill the chair continues, meanwhile, with over 60 candidates screened in the last eight months. Battistoni suggests one solution to the controversy would be to make ethics part of the lesson. "If the university is going to do a chair in economics named after him, to be true to its own values, the university should set it up as the Ken Lay Chair in Economics and Business Ethics...
...Rome sweltering in 91° heat, Andreadis and his bride of three weeks, Shipping Heiress Christina Onassis, 24, turned up in Rome's most luxurious shopping district. After a stop at Valentino's dress shop, they adjourned to Gucci, where Christina bought several leather handbags, and to Battistoni, where Alexander picked out some very civilian silk shirts. Then the pair jumped back into their Rolls-Royce and drove off. "That's one of the problems with the Greek army," reflected a former officer afterward. "There's never been any problem about leave for the idle rich...
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