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Manes' world swiftly became more lonely and hostile. Koch, feeling betrayed by his friend, called Manes "a crook" and urged him to resign. "It was the biggest shock that I've suffered politically," Koch told TIME last week. Manes did resign on Feb. 11. The final blow came last week, when his friend Lindenauer pleaded guilty to extortion and mail fraud and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. Apparently that was enough to drive Manes to his last desperate act--an end foreshadowed 31 years earlier when his own father, despondent over reported financial reverses, shot himself to death. --By John...
...Greenberg really a power-hungry crook who would do anything to win--and who was bound to be discovered as his deceits escalated? Or is he a quintessential hard-driving businessman so used to winning and so sure of his judgment that he didn't notice how close his toes had got to the line? Spitzer has been criticized in the business community for overzealousness, and last week brought the first hard evidence that the criticism may have merit: a former Bank of America broker was acquitted in a courtroom test of Spitzer's crusade against the financial industry. That...
Brent leaves a wheelchair-bound worker in the stairwell during a fire drill (“We’ll come back for her later”) and makes his secretary cry in a practical joke gone awry. He’s joined by office sycophant Gareth Keenan (Mackenzie Crook), who sticks to the rules and sells himself to the ladies: “I am caring, and sensitive. Isn’t ‘Schindler’s List’ a brilliant film?” The show was a nuanced, naturalistic firecracker of a comedy, where...
...market manipulation, he is "flabbergasted" by the whole affair. "I believed so much in Tanzi as an entrepreneur that I have a hard time seeing him as anything else," he says. "For 13 years I think he's a genius, and then I find out he's a crook." If Ferraris wishes he had never been seduced by Tanzi, the international banks and auditors no doubt...
...Asked what he thinks about Tanzi, he says, "I have a problem. I believed so much in Tanzi as an entrepreneur that I have a hard time seeing him as anything else. For 13 years I think he's a genius, and then I find out he's a crook. If I'd known, I'd have stayed in Australia...