Word: jurors
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...juror offered her view that when things went to hell at Tyco, the Ivy League--educated, Waspy board of directors closed ranks and served up, in her words, the "Polack and the Jew" on a platter for a D.A. eager to make an example of somebody--anybody--for the corporate greed of the late '90s. (Never mind that there was no testimony about Kozlowski's roots or that Swartz is even Jewish.) That was the first indication that the soon-to-be-infamous Juror No. 4, Ruth Jordan, wasn't going to make our job any easier. Jordan...
...dust has barely settled since the Tyco jury was sent home after a mistrial was declared. I was Juror No. 11, and I'm not at all sure how I feel. Numb, mostly. Disappointed. Angry. Could I really have just spent six months of my life on one of the signature corporate-fraud cases of the Wall Street bubble only to have the judge rule that it must be started again from scratch, like some do-over in a childhood kickball game? How did it come to this...
...shocked when I was placed on the panel, since I'd once worked as an investment banker. I didn't think the prosecution would want a juror who had been active on Wall Street during a go-go era and might well see nothing wrong with fat bonuses and lavish parties for men generating great wealth for the company. I certainly did not enter the case with a vendetta against the defendants, who were accused of taking tens of millions of dollars in unauthorized bonuses and essentially using Tyco assets as a giant piggy bank to fund their lavish lifestyles...
...cross-examination, the defense zeroed in on Faneuil, tarring him as a liar who smoked pot and had tried the drug ecstasy. That might have been a tactical error. Jurors said after the trial that the most damaging testimony came from Stewart's assistant, Ann Armstrong, who sobbed on the stand before describing how Stewart at one point altered part of a phone log showing she had heard from Bacanovic on the day in question. Armstrong convinced the jurors that Faneuil was believable. "That was one of the strongest things that showed there was some kind of cover-up," said...
...Last Juror...