Posted on 09/19/2005 9:28:30 AM PDT by pabianice
Breaking...
Also must pay fine of $137 million.
Should have skipped town while he had the chance.
Why maximum security? Do they want him to get beaten and brutalized? His crime was not violent. He is no security threat. Anyone who thinks this is cool is wrong.
Uh...who is "Koslow?"
Ex-Tyco International scumbag
Fair question. I don't think he ought to go to a country club either, but surely there is a happy medium.
In fact, for him, it's probably quite enough that he'll have to shower in a bathroom with mildewed shower curtains for 8.5 years.
Dennis Kozlowski, not Koslow
No context, no link, and nothing on Google News. Three strikes.
Here, for posterity, is the original headline. Looks like the Mods took pity on you:
"Koslow gets 8 1/3 -25 in max. security prison"
How awful. Fox scoops Google.
Fox reports that a sentence over six years requires max security confinement in NY.
If he was smart he would have donated to the Clinton Library.
-CNJ
That is an absolutely ignorant punishment.
Why mix violent and non-violent criminals? I've got no problem with the 137 mil or the 8.5 years, but what's the point of the max security?
Has he been threatening prison uprisings? Has he beaten his guards? Has he murdered and raped?
Ex-Tyco Execs Receive Prison Sentences
By SAMUEL MAULL, Associated Press Writer
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/tyco_trial;_ylt=AmPyjvCVckfribk0AhTiNfis0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--
NEW YORK - L. Dennis Kozlowski, the former CEO of Tyco International, was sentenced Monday to eight and one-third years to 25 years in prison Monday for stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the company.
His codefendant, former Tyco finance chief Mark Swartz, received the same sentence, which means they will be eligible for parole after eight years and four months.
The judge also ordered them to pay a total of $134 million in restitution. In addition, Kozlowski was fined $70 million and Swartz $35 million.
Family members wept in the gallery as the sentences were imposed.
The sentences end a case that exposed the executives' extravagant lifestyle after pilfering some $600 million from the company including a $2 million toga birthday party for Kozlowski's wife on a Mediterranean island and an $18 million Manhattan apartment with a $6,000 shower curtain.
Kozlowski, 58, and Swartz, 44, were convicted in June after a four-month trial on 22 counts of grand larceny, falsifying business records, securities fraud and conspiracy. It was their second trial — the first ended in mistrial after a juror said she received threats following reports that she made an "OK" signal to the defense team.
Kozlowski and Swartz join a line of other executives sent off to prison in a wave of white-collar scandals that shook corporate America and outraged the public after thousands of people lost their jobs and pension nest-eggs.
WorldCom Chairman Bernard Ebbers was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the $11 billion accounting fraud that toppled the telecommunications company that emerged from bankrutpcy as MCI Inc. Adelphia Communications Corp. founder John Rigas was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role in the looting and fraud at that cable TV company. His son and former finance chief, Timothy Rigas, got 20 years.
Ummm. Arsonists ( no homicide committed) and burglars of 7-11's(armed with toy guns) go to the same place. .. Why should it be any different for a sc*mbag like him?
Thanks. I actually didn't make the connection. Need more coffee.
Maximum security protects him. It is cool.
I don't understand the range. was he sentenced to 8 1/3 years or 25 years? how much of the time does he have to serve?
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