{"id":97,"date":"2005-07-13T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2005-07-13T08:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/13\/scrushy-feeling-cushy\/"},"modified":"2005-07-13T00:01:09","modified_gmt":"2005-07-13T08:01:09","slug":"scrushy-feeling-cushy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/13\/scrushy-feeling-cushy\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrushy Feeling Cushy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><b>New York Times<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/07\/08\/business\/08scrushy.html\">SEC Wants Day in Court With Scrushy<\/a>. Last week, Richard M. Scrushy, the former chief executive of HealthSouth, walked out of a federal courthouse in Birmingham with an acquittal, but his business in the building is not done yet. Mr. Scrushy still faces civil lawsuits, including a securities fraud suit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sure, he&#8217;s still facing civil lawsuits, but what&#8217;s a couple dollars or even a couple million dollars?  Without the threat of jail hanging over him, he surely must be relieved.  Who do you think was most surprised by the verdict?  The prosecutors?  Nah.  I think it must be his underlings who turned against him and made a deal with prosecutors.  Now, they&#8217;ll face jail time while he walks free.  I&#8217;ve added <a href=\"http:\/\/contracts.onecle.com\/alpha\/7776.shtml\">HealthSouth contracts<\/a> to the site, including <a href=\"http:\/\/contracts.onecle.com\/healthsouth\/scrushy.emp.1998.04.01.shtml\">Richard Scrushy&#8217;s employment agreement.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times: SEC Wants Day in Court With Scrushy. Last week, Richard M. Scrushy, the former chief executive of HealthSouth, walked out of a federal courthouse in Birmingham with an acquittal, but his business in the building is not done yet. Mr. Scrushy still faces civil lawsuits, including a securities fraud suit filed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-litigation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}