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...fashioned values he learned as a student. "Humility, service and lifting the human spirit work as well in the boardroom as they do in the classroom," he said. That same week his flamboyant predecessor at Tyco, a sprawling $37 billion conglomerate, was sitting through his trial in a Manhattan courtroom on charges of looting the company of $600 million. Kozlowski, whose extravagance became legendary after he left Tyco in June 2002--remember the $6,000 shower curtain?--had to listen as former assistant Mary Murphy admitted that she had been having an affair with him, even as she agreed...
Faneuil, 28, was preparing to take the stand on day two of the trial and was expected to tell this version of the events to the jury, when Bacanovic's lawyer, Richard Strassberg, stunned the courtroom by calling for a mistrial. Strassberg said that at 10:15 the previous night the prosecution had belatedly faxed him a copy of an interview the FBI had conducted with Faneuil's former lawyer, Jeremiah Gutman, 80, which hinted at a different version of events. Gutman said he couldn't remember whom Faneuil had identified--Bacanovic or Waksal--as the one who had instructed...
...high-profile trial to begin, Martha Stewart looked almost upbeat last week as she finally had her first days in court. Sporting clean-line pantsuits and clutching a Hermes Birkin handbag (starting price: $6,000), she looked--for once--perfectly out of place in an otherwise musty courtroom in downtown Manhattan. And when the judge unexpectedly delayed for a week testimony from Douglas Faneuil, a key government witness, Stewart left the courthouse with a smile on her face...
...member of the Blackfeet tribe, filed a $135 billion class action against the U.S. government, claiming that billions of dollars belonging to some 500,000 Native Americans and their heirs had been mismanaged or stolen from accounts held in trust since the late 19th century. Through document discovery and courtroom testimony, the Cobell case revealed mismanagement, ineptness, dishonesty and delay by federal officials, leading U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth to declare their conduct "fiscal and governmental irresponsibility in its purest form...
...police. Finally busted one night, 500 people headed down one staircase while the police charged up another, and Kapranos was arrested for various noise and safety charges and running an illegal bar (the charges were dropped). Undeterred, the band simply moved the Chateau to a disused Victorian courtroom and jailhouse in the city's east end - which they still occupy - hosting gigs in the court while friends use the cells as art galleries. By the time Franz Ferdinand deigned to play conventional venues in early 2003, the music business had caught on. "We did one gig and there was something...