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InvisibleAlex213
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Wal-mart exec too "fragile" for prison
    #5955785 - 08/12/06 06:17 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

FORT SMITH, Ark. (Reuters) -- Tom Coughlin, the former Wal-Mart Stores Inc. vice chairman who admitted to stealing thousands of dollars from the company, was sentenced on Friday to 27 months of home confinement.

His doctor, Joel Carver, had testified earlier on Friday that the 57-year-old was too "fragile" for prison, suffering from diabetes, cardiac disease, sleep apnea, arterial blockage, and other ailments. Coughlin was treated for arterial blockage in 2003.

Prosecutors countered that prisons had good medical facilities to care for him, but Judge Robert Dawson decided on home confinement, five years of probation, and restitution of about $411,000. Roughly three quarters of that sum will go to Wal-Mart, and the remainder to the Internal Revenue Service.

http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/11/news/newsmakers/walmart.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes

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Re: Wal-mart exec too "fragile" for prison [Re: Alex213]
    #5955829 - 08/12/06 07:17 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Everyone seems to be too fragile. This dickhead, Pinochet, Reagan, etc. The same excuses will be applied to Bush and Blair in a few decades.

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Re: Wal-mart exec too "fragile" for prison [Re: bukkake]
    #5955845 - 08/12/06 07:41 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Na they'll have faked there deaths like the Enron guy. Right before jail, he dies of a convinient heart attack, aka he has a lot of money and he can do what he wants, hes in his mansion in east who knows where the fuck probably bowling with his pals in the basement.  :mad:


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Re: Wal-mart exec too "fragile" for prison [Re: beatnicknick]
    #5956323 - 08/12/06 12:21 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Actually, the Enron guy did "die" but it didn't matter. With his money and connections to big government, he was able to clone himself through research with embryonic stem cells.

The clone died prematurely of a heart attack brought on by the altitude of Aspen and lots of partying.


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Re: Wal-mart exec too "fragile" for prison [Re: Alex213]
    #5957190 - 08/12/06 06:05 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Tom Coughlin, the former Wal-Mart Stores Inc. vice chairman who admitted to stealing thousands of dollars from the company, was sentenced on Friday to 27 months of home confinement.

they would have given me 24-48 months in the state pen for selling $35 worth of mushrooms if i didn't take their plea offer. this guy stole thousands (and he bought celine dion cds).


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Re: Wal-mart exec too "fragile" for prison [Re: wilshire]
    #5957263 - 08/12/06 06:44 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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they would have given me 24-48 months in the state pen for selling $35 worth of mushrooms if i didn't take their plea offer.




Just take a lesson from this guy and slip the judge a cool million.


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Re: Wal-mart exec too "fragile" for prison [Re: HighGuy]
    #5958382 - 08/13/06 03:10 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

And this is the justice system that we should apparantly trust to enforce "labor laws" to protect workers from the whims of execs like this guy. Doesn't exactly fill you with confidence does it.

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Re: Wal-mart exec too "fragile" for prison [Re: Alex213]
    #5958505 - 08/13/06 06:21 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

It doesn't exactly fill me with confidence in humanity if workers would continue to work in a place wherein labor rights were being violated.

As in, "hey dumbfuck, if it is a hostile work environment, then quit, duh". :lol:

Of course, I work at Wal*Mart, and have never seen any labor rights being violated, so :shrug:

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Re: Wal-mart exec too "fragile" for prison [Re: Alex213]
    #5958787 - 08/13/06 10:51 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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Alex213 said:
And this is the justice system that we should apparantly trust to enforce "labor laws" to protect workers from the whims of execs like this guy. Doesn't exactly fill you with confidence does it.




What possible connection could your febrile mind draw between this guy embezzling about 500K from the company and labor law enforcement? We now have our first diagnosed case of WDS.


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Re: Wal-mart exec too "fragile" for prison [Re: zappaisgod]
    #5958939 - 08/13/06 11:57 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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zappaisgod said:
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Alex213 said:
And this is the justice system that we should apparantly trust to enforce "labor laws" to protect workers from the whims of execs like this guy. Doesn't exactly fill you with confidence does it.




What possible connection could your febrile mind draw between this guy embezzling about 500K from the company and labor law enforcement? We now have our first diagnosed case of WDS.




Concentrate your mind and think real hard. If that doesn't help, ask a friend to help you.

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Re: Wal-mart exec too "fragile" for prison [Re: Alex213]
    #5959040 - 08/13/06 12:31 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

I thought I was, pal


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Re: Wal-mart exec too "fragile" for prison [Re: zappaisgod]
    #5959296 - 08/13/06 02:03 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

If you're paying attention then tell us how has the justice system treated a Walmart exec who has broken the law?

We'll get there eventually... :laugh:

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Re: Wal-mart exec too "fragile" for prison [Re: Alex213]
    #5959358 - 08/13/06 02:15 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

About the same way they have ever treated white collar criminals. Disgracefully leniently. What's your point about labor laws? Which, by the way, are outside of the criminal justice system. You do know that, don't you?


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Re: Wal-mart exec too "fragile" for prison [Re: zappaisgod]
    #5960186 - 08/13/06 06:49 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Duh, zappa, the anti-Wal*Mart propaganda never covered that much. :lol:

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Re: Wal-mart exec too "fragile" for prison [Re: zappaisgod]
    #5961491 - 08/14/06 01:31 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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zappaisgod said:
About the same way they have ever treated white collar criminals. Disgracefully leniently. What's your point about labor laws? Which, by the way, are outside of the criminal justice system. You do know that, don't you?




So you believe the justice system fails constantly when treating exec criminals but works when treating execs in labor law cases?

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Re: Wal-mart exec too "fragile" for prison [Re: fireworks_god]
    #5961497 - 08/14/06 01:32 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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fireworks_god said:
Duh, zappa, the anti-Wal*Mart propaganda never covered that much. :lol:

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Except that it's the most obvious reason why Wal-mart are so keen on labor laws and have such a dread of unions  :smirk:

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Re: Wal-mart exec too "fragile" for prison [Re: Alex213]
    #5962019 - 08/14/06 08:13 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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Alex213 said:
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zappaisgod said:
About the same way they have ever treated white collar criminals. Disgracefully leniently. What's your point about labor laws? Which, by the way, are outside of the criminal justice system. You do know that, don't you?




So you believe the justice system fails constantly when treating exec criminals but works when treating execs in labor law cases?




What mystical "justice system" are you referring to? Nor is disgustingly lenient equivalent to failure. Labor law violations are not criminal. They are tortious. Do you know what that means? Do you know anything at all about law?


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Re: Wal-mart exec too "fragile" for prison [Re: zappaisgod]
    #5962056 - 08/14/06 08:47 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

You still don't seem to get the point.

Why do you believe judges will be disgustingly lenient to execs in one area of law and strict in another?

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Re: Wal-mart exec too "fragile" for prison [Re: Alex213]
    #5962255 - 08/14/06 10:27 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

YOU still don't get the point. It's not the execs on trial in a labor dispute and there is only money being discussed not prison time. Judges are quite willing to hand over oodles of company cash. As are juries. You have no clue whatsoever about American law, do you?


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Re: Wal-mart exec too "fragile" for prison [Re: zappaisgod]
    #5962277 - 08/14/06 10:34 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

You could replace "American law" with almost any phrase or word in the English language and the answer would still, always, be an emphatic "no".


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