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.
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I thought this was about Mark Sanford.
OK, great. Now give back the $8.7 million.
Let bygones be bygones.
His ‘road to redemption’ would have been better had it been paved with restitution.
With a touch of insanity in the eye he’d look like Manson.
So what? Hillary did the same thing and her picture ain’t up there.
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 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.
I didn't know that the AT ended in Argentina ...I thought its terminus was in Georgia
Or John Lennon.
He was thinking with the wrong head!
And lost in his thoughts.
I wanna get to be a famous politician, and do something outrageously bad .... and get away with it.
Just once.
Shoot the effin lawyer.
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