Husband of Ohio corporate fraud ex-fugitive to plead guilty to lying to investigators

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Husband of Ohio corporate fraud ex-fugitive to plead guilty to lying to investigators
ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS
AP Legal Affairs Writer
12:53 p.m. EDT, August 26, 2011

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The husband of a former fugitive who spent more than two years in Mexico following her conviction in Ohio in a $1.9 billion corporate fraud has agreed to plead guilty to lying to investigators about her whereabouts, according to documents made public Friday.

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Parrett was arrested in Mexico last year, more than two years after she fled the country rather than appear for her sentencing in a corporate fraud case investigators likened to the Enron or WorldCom scandals.

Parrett had disappeared in March 2008 after she was convicted of securities fraud, wire fraud and other charges in a scheme at health care financing company National Century Financial Enterprises.

Parrett, of Carefree, Ariz., said at her December sentencing that she was ill and depressed after her conviction and that she went to Mexico intending to die there. Parrett also insisted she was innocent of the scheme that prosecutors said bankrupted hundreds of health care providers and cost investors in National Century billions.



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1. I thought spouses weren't compelled to testify against each other.

So I'm confused about why he said anything at all, to begin with.

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2. The difference b/n compelled testimony and voluntary lying under routine questioning?

Lying under routine questioning is a crime, I believe.

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3. But I mean, if you can't be compelled to testify against a spouse, why would you volunteer?

Just stupid. Esp. if you are not prepared to tell the truth.

He's either really stupid, or I'm missing part of this story...

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5. Ever watch The Closer? It's just human nature, if someone asks a question

the tendency is to supply an answer that makes things look good.

I believe this is what got Martha Stewart into jail.

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4. Typical. Big Corporate Money Multi Millionaire screwing the health

care industry.