Not-so-Petty cash to rock bat mitzvah ($10 million! for coming out party)

NY Daily News ^ | November 29, 2005

[MattinNJ]

LOL

[thoughtomator]

How to f- up your kid at an early age....

[wolfcreek]

HE'S RUINED IT FOR ALL THE OTHER FATHERS!

[eastsider]

Wretched excess. JMO.

[surrey]

If Dad's still around, can you just imagine the wedding he'll throw?

[MeanWestTexan]

Can you imagine his little princess as someone's wife?

[thoughtomator]

No matter how much money was involved or how beautiful she turns out to be, I would not want to be the husband, or really, have any association at all with a family whose priorities are so distorted.

[MEGoody]

Rich, excessive people do tend to give plenty to charity too, so let them have their fun.

Well, some do. Based on everything I've read, that depends on whether the individual is a 'red stater' or a 'blue stater'.

[Expressway]

It's good you're not an investor:

Huge Insider Trading Alleged: Scott + Scott, LLC Files First Securities Fraud Case Against DHB Industries, Inc.

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-12-2005/0004105355&EDATE=

[Billthedrill]

Hey, it's his money, or at least it better be. But I do know that were I a famous rock star there's no way I'd do a 15-minute set at somebody's birthday party for a lousy five hunnert thousand d...

Uh...

What key did you want me to play that in, sir?

[popdonnelly]

I may be crazy, but can I throw a party.

[bencarter]

"I don't suppose that his daughter used the occasion to announce that in two years she will be enlisting"

at 15?

[ApplegateRanch]

Paris Hilton may be a skank, and may be rich, but she's used those to apparently become financially independent.

You could say the same about Heidi Fleeces, The Hollywierd Madmadam.

Or Lucy Loo(se).

Doesn't mean we NEED yet another very visible rich skank running loose & amuck.

[Pharmboy]

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Why do some people get so warped out as to how someone spends their own money.

[PacesPaines]

The Eagles, Tom Petty, Aerosmith, Stevie Nicks -- it sounds like it was a party for 50-year-old Dad & not the daughter.

You nailed it right there!

[geezerwheezer]

That sounds like one hell of a great time for all...Wish I could do that for my kids but I have to get the flat fixed on the truck instead!! Maybe in my next life... :0 )

[ApplegateRanch]

Huge Insider Trading Alleged: Scott + Scott, LLC Files First Securities Fraud Case Against DHB Industries, Inc.

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-12-2005/0004105355&EDATE=

"DHB and certain individual defendants including
CEO David Brooks, violated the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 by making false
statements or failing to disclose adverse facts known to them about DHB.
Defendants' fraudulent scheme, it is alleged, (a) deceived the investing
public regarding DHB's prospects and business; (b) artificially inflated the
prices of DHB's publicly traded securities; (c) allowed defendants to sell
approximately $195.4 million of their own shares at inflated prices; and (d)
caused members of the Class to purchase DHB's publicly traded securities at
inflated prices."

This, as well as use of the corporate jet(s) may call into question whether it was really his to spend.

He may have figured that if he spends it, at least he'll have had fun with it, rather than having something tangible to give back as restitution.

[tuff_schlitz]

You said: "It would have been great to be able to shout "You suck!" at Kenny G at the top of my lungs in such an intimate setting."

I would rather wait for Henley, so I could whip out one of my favorite Dennis Leary quotes:

"I got two words for Don Henley...Joe F***in'Walsh, OKAY?! How long is you pony tail now, Don?"

[thefactor]

"this dog" is still just a 13 year old girl who never asked for a rich father. show a little restraint.