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Lawyers: Appalachian Trail was client's 'road to redemption'
WLWT5 ^ | 3 June 2016

Posted on 06/03/2016 12:42:10 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

Attorneys for a Kentucky accountant who embezzled $8.7 million before going on the run said Friday that hiking the Appalachian Trail for six years as a fugitive put him on "the road to redemption."... His attorneys say he has no criminal past, is remorseful and has spent years contemplating his wrongdoing on the popular trail that winds more than 2,000 miles from Georgia to Maine.

(Excerpt) Read more at wlwt.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: appalachiantrail
No harm, no foul. No one was killed! He did it for the children. There is no controlling legal authority that says this was in violation of law.
1 posted on 06/03/2016 12:42:10 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I thought this was about Mark Sanford.


2 posted on 06/03/2016 12:43:29 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: DUMBGRUNT

OK, great. Now give back the $8.7 million.


3 posted on 06/03/2016 12:44:19 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
He just broke some rules.

Let bygones be bygones.

4 posted on 06/03/2016 12:45:26 PM PDT by kiryandil (To the GOPee: "Giving the Democrats the Supreme Court means you ARE the Democrats.")
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To: DUMBGRUNT

His ‘road to redemption’ would have been better had it been paved with restitution.


5 posted on 06/03/2016 12:45:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

With a touch of insanity in the eye he’d look like Manson.


6 posted on 06/03/2016 12:47:44 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

So what? Hillary did the same thing and her picture ain’t up there.


7 posted on 06/03/2016 12:47:56 PM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: rockinqsranch

His wife was Joy Johnson, who grew up in Waverly. Her parents, Bob and Judy Johnson, still live there. She was valedictorian of her 1981 Waverly High School class. She married James Hammes in 1984.
Joy was believed to have died accidentally in 2003 in a fire in Lexington. She was so well-known in the charitable community in Lexington that the city’s newspaper wrote about her death. But as her mother, Judy, told me for a column in 2012, the family reconsidered Joy’s death after Hammes disappeared and was charged.
http://www.sj-r.com/article/20150521/NEWS/150529846/?Start=1


8 posted on 06/03/2016 12:48:52 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

$8 million in his pocket, and he expects us to believe he lived rough on the Trail for 6 years?

He should have been able to live off the interest, and have the entire amount available for restitution.


9 posted on 06/03/2016 12:50:43 PM PDT by PAR35
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Redeemed by the AT

I didn't know that the AT ended in Argentina ...I thought its terminus was in Georgia


10 posted on 06/03/2016 12:54:09 PM PDT by Daffynition ("We have the fight of our lives coming up to save our nation!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: rockinqsranch

Or John Lennon.


11 posted on 06/03/2016 1:01:56 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Daffynition

He was thinking with the wrong head!
And lost in his thoughts.


12 posted on 06/03/2016 1:06:53 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I wanna get to be a famous politician, and do something outrageously bad .... and get away with it.

Just once.


13 posted on 06/03/2016 2:59:22 PM PDT by Daffynition ("We have the fight of our lives coming up to save our nation!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Shoot the effin lawyer.


14 posted on 06/03/2016 3:22:31 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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