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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDiane Hathaway is scum. I have no problem with her humiliation. The more the better.
Declaring herself "broken" and "disgraced," former Michigan Supreme Court Justice Diane Hathaway tearfully took responsibility for fraud Tuesday before a judge sentenced her to a year and a day in prison for concealing assets while she was pleading with a bank for a sale on her underwater home.
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Crying and reading from a statement, Hathaway, 59, blamed her crime on "personal issues" but added: "That is no excuse."
"I stand before you a broken person," she told the judge. "I am ashamed, embarrassed, humiliated and disgraced."
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Hathaway and husband Michael Kingsley put the Florida home in a relative's name while dealing with ING Bank on the Michigan house, then got the property back in their names in 2012. Before the sale, she also tapped more than $350,000 in cash to buy two homes that were placed in the names of stepchildren, according to the government.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/28/diane-hathaway-judge-prison-sentenced_n_3347977.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=Politics
and no, she isn't a repub, she's a dem.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,976 posts)I don't care what her "personal issues" were - nothing excuses that kind of chicanery.
llmart
(15,566 posts)she deserves exactly what she's getting. One house wasn't good enough for her?
They only apologize and cry boo hoo when they get caught.
niyad
(113,860 posts)her job, her reputation, that is punishment enough". what a load of codswallop.
some of the comments are mind-boggling.
lame54
(35,345 posts)her conviction clued me into that