Schadenfreude
The lawyer who filed the class actions suits against gun makers, William S. Lerach, has been sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to forfeit pay in the amount of $7.75 million following his guilty plea of conspiracy to obstruct justice.
February 19th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Nice, but not much more than a slap on the wrist for a guy who made billions (with a b) fleecing dot-coms with groundless shareholder-derivative suits. In law school in the ’90s, there were certain of my classmates who saw him as an idol, much in the same way that young boys want to be pirates. Except he was real.
February 19th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Bill Lerach was a class-action shakedown artist and most all of Silicon Valley hated him – good riddance prison bayotch.
February 19th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
To me it’s always good news when a bloodsucker (lawyer) gets a long all expenses paid vacation to the big house.
February 19th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Know why lawyers graves are 30ft. deep?
’cause deep down they’re good.