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Greedy fired Wal-Mart exec getting a spanking
Posted by Fired Fred on August 29, 2007 4:30 PM
Home detention these days isn't what it was back when people didn't have the Internet, or even cable. You get sent to your room these days, you've got video on demand, torrents everywhere, music to download, a zillion social networking sites. There's no time to realize you're being punished when you have a blog to update.
Tom Coughlin used to be a million bucks a year Wal-Martian in their executive trenches. He got busted last year for ripping off gift cards and money from Wally World.
That stuff added up to wire fraud and tax fraud charges. The Bushies crack hard on tax fraud, because that deprives the war machine's black hole of money money money.
Not for this guy. Instead of 28 years of being a greeter in the showers of some federal penitentiary, ol' Tom got off easy. Home detention and probation.
As you'll hear when college football starts up this weekend, not so fast my friend. Ol' Tom's facing a resentencing...
The established sentence of 27 months home detention and 33 months of additional probation was too light, according to the appeals court. It still amazes me that a 28-year veteran of the world's largest retailer rose to where he was in the company's hierarchy only to see some unbelievably stupid actions cause him to be fired and charged with tax and fraud crimes.For real. This guy's got an arrogance gland the size of his fat ass.