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Count Barry Minkow as one of the more unlikely people ever to be a law-enforcement lecturer. A felon, he was busted in his early 20s by the FBI for engineering one of the biggest frauds in U.S. history. His ZZZZ Best carpet-cleaning scam, a mid-1980s securities caper, was worth $300 million before it went up in smoke. That rap landed him in a federal pen on a 25-year sentence. After serving seven years and four months, he got out in 1995 and, like the con man portrayed in the hit movie Catch...
According to the Miami Herald, Florida attempted to revive its felon purge lists in 2004, again rife with inaccuracy, again disproportionately disenfranchising black voters. By the far the worst tactic was revealed by New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, who exposed that the state of Florida was “investigating” get-out-the-vote drives among blacks in Orlando by sending armed police officers into the homes of mostly elderly, African-American citizens who had filed absentee ballots. For someone to authorize the intimidation and terrorization of poor elderly black women who came...
Though Poundstone denies doing so intentionally, she manages to wring considerable humor out of being a felon (one of her best-received jokes is a line about being an important element of her Neighborhood Watch). "All I want is to be entertaining," she says. "I don't have any great lessons to share, except this: get your criminal attorney now. Should something go south, you won't have the luxury of shopping around." --By Michele Orecklin
...move forward without its most important product. Stewart owns about 61% of the company's stock, and its business is indelibly marked with her name. While brand experts have criticized the new CEO, Sharon Patrick, for moving too slowly to separate the company from the convicted felon, the seeds of that transformation are already in place...
DIED. ED GREGORY JR., 66, colorful carnival owner and felon who was pardoned by President Bill Clinton in 2000; of pulmonary disease; in Nashville, Tenn. The pardon--Gregory had been convicted of bank fraud--prompted a congressional investigation into his financial ties with the President's brother-in-law Tony Rodham, who had received $240,000 in undocumented consulting fees from Gregory...