Archimboldi wrote:
Great interview. Was feeling sorry for Chet until I came on this board and found out that he's a self-centered anti-semite. I do have a slight logic problem with one of the points Dan had during the interview. After Chet spewed venom at Tom Shaer for a solid two minutes, Dan sort of defended Shaer by saying, "Maybe he just didn't like you." I'm not passing judgment either way here but I have to ask Dan....does that make it okay? I mean something must be said for integrity and empathy. And yes, you can be empathetic toward someone you don't like. So if Tom Shaer is guilty of what Chet accuses him of, then simply saying "He doesn't like him" is not a good excuse.
I guess I sound naive. But Chet's point throughout was that Tom Shaer is a dick for doing what he did. So even if Tom Shaer didn't like North or Chet, doing what he did STILL makes him a dick, no?
Shaer said he had talked to the FBI and they had told him that they had nothing on him and "sometimes people turn their life around". He said he had no reason to call anyone up because he didn't know they were hired until after the deal was done, plus what was he going to say? "Hey, about 11 or 12 years ago I had the FBI call me about him". Then the response would have been "Sour grapes Shaer, you're pissed you didn't get asked to the party".
And anyway, THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN HANDLED BY BEBE AND NORTH!!!! If you are going to go into a partnership with someone and are also going to involve your friends/former co-workers, then it is up to YOU OR YOUR LAWYER to find out if your potential partner is on the up and up and has any problems in the past that would throw up a red flag in regards to doing business with him or her. This should not fall on the shoulders of someone who dealt with him/her a decade ago.
Way too many people are giving North a pass because of the Madoff angle. And what happened to "the code of the street"? I guess it doesn't apply when North ends up looking like the dumbass. Then it's every man for himself.