Scrushy gets Cracked
By Weekly Staff
So we’re perusing Cracked.com (one of the Weekly’s favorite Web sites), reading the very funny lists that they output each day when we came across a name we recognized. Today’s list was The Seven Most Baffling Criminal Defenses (That Sort of Worked) and wouldn’t you know that No. 4 was “The Idiot Defense”, starring Richard M. Scrushy:
“Scrushy’s lawyers claimed he was completely ignorant of any wrongdoing, arguing that as head of a major corporation, his attention was diverted from trivial matters (accounts, shareholders, human resources, white collar crime) so that he could be free to focus on the more important aspects of high-level management (golfing, sleeping on huge piles of money).”
There’s also a fantastic comparison of Scrushy’s mugshot with that of Hannibal Lecter. There’s a guy you don’t want to have an uncanny resemblance to…
