An emblem of excess

St. Petersburg Times ^ | 7/22/02 | THOMAS C. TOBIN

[arete]

The bathtub in the master suite will be 6 feet wide and 8 feet long, enough room to float on one's back.

Personally, I'd like to see him floating face down.

Richard W.

[arete]

Outrageous

Richard W.

[ken5050]

He'll never get to spend a night in it...it doesn't qualify as his personal residence....and he'll be sued for the $10 million bonus..and the word of the day is "disgorgement"...he'll be sued for just about everything he ever earned from Worldcom....the bankruptcy trustee willo go after him like white on rice..he's a big target.......and there are alligators in the lake...

[Freee-dame]

Looks like a good place for St. Petersburg's homeless.

[facedown]

Personally, I'd like to see him floating face down.

Hey, I resent that! 8^)

[FreedomFarmer]

There will be two garages, each with space for three cars, plus a motor court with plenty of turn-around space...

What a dinky overpriced shack.
I need more room than that for my 7 tractors, let alone grain trucks, combines, and equipment.
I figure even a city slicker aught to know better than to live next to a frog pond. Skeeters will eat'em alive.

[RWG]

Oh don't start with this class warfare crap.

[Lee_Atwater]

Worldcom was not going to make it on its own either way. The prudent thing would have been to be honest and set up a buyer of the assets, instead of fraudulently trying to prop up the firm. Then, Mr.Sullivan could have retired to his new estate with some honor.

[grania]

It has no land...it's ugly...it's practically in the lake.

[Lee_Atwater]

Well, not alot of lawn to cut!

[Dukie]

"Oh don't start with this class warfare crap"

Sullivan will be indicted on charges of fraud, which is a felony. There are no issues of class warfare here because Sullivan has proven by his dereliction to be completely devoid of class. There is nothing admirable about him or the audacity of his perpetrations which financed this castle.

[Utah Girl]

My thoughts exactly, except when I see a house that size, I automatically think "If I lived there, I'd have to vacuum all that space." :)

[arete]

Skeeters will eat'em alive.

Yes, but I understand that it is a much better class of mosquito.

Richard W.

[Wyatt's Torch]

He earned a hell of a lot of his money and I certainly don't fault him for building the house, albeit it an ugly one but that's a personal choice. Let's let the system wok and have him be tried for fraud. That's what is supposed to happen. None pf this new "corporate responsibility" crap that our, ahem, esteemed congresscritters passed yesterday would have changed any of this. Just let the system work. We don't need to kill all the capitalists in order to save capitalism.

Thanks for the ping.

[arete]

We don't need to kill all the capitalists in order to save capitalism.

Excuse me, it's about justice not capitalism.

Richard W.

[razorback-bert]

It's not ocean front, I wil not bid on it, when it comes up for auction.

[Tauzero]

I can't wish him death. Lots of other bad things, yes, but not death.

[arete]

Not kill "floating face down", in the literal sense. It is a figure of speech. Of course not! At least not without a trial. Let the punishment fit the crime, but we do need a sense of justice to restore confidence. The criminals also need to be sent a message.

Richard W.

[Tauzero]

"we do need a sense of justice to restore confidence"

On the contrary, confidence produces a surfeit of mercy, a dearth of justice. Disappointment, skepticism, and fear, as reflected by falling stock prices, leads to the pursuit of justice.

[Wyatt's Torch]

it's about justice

Exactly what I said.

Let's let the system work and have him be tried for fraud.