Larz sucks.

But he is right on the money here.

No he's not. Being COO has certain responsibilities, regardless of how clueless the COO is.

To win the suit, the plantiff will have to prove to a Judge that the people named in the lawsuit actually directly harmed them.

It seems JK is nearing criminal unawareness.

Bebe was the COO not mike. And she has liability here, your North fandom not withstanding.


Oh and by the way...david hernandez is the lovechild of david navarro and john lovitz

what, david navarro? which tatoo and hoop earring put it over the top for you?

my mistake

His opinion is about as warranted as Beardown or Pappys' Crappy, not that they are wrong, but because he has a web site now he knows the law?

This is how Ken Lay got convicted in the Enron debacle. He claimed he didn't know—I doubt that he didn't—but he was held responsible for what Skilling and Fastow et. al. were allowed to do under his leadership, with or without his blessing. Fair or not, in this case, officers of a company can be considered criminally unaware.

Jiggs is obviously the mastermind behind the whole thing.

I have no idea if North will suffer any legal consequences or have to return money or anything like that--I'm simply not qualified to comment on how the law works on matters like this--but I won't back down from my statement of many months ago: North knew way more about Hernandez than he'll ever admit. He just simply couldn't resist when DH showed up (either on his own or at North's invitation; I'm still not clear on that) to fund his Webio dream, no matter how cloudy his past was.

Knew the guy 17 years ago, did Score events with him, Jiggs knew him too, had him at Pappyland, the story of his previous crime and conviction and sentencing was reported on more than once in both Chicago papers, Shaer knew all about it, Huebner has hinted that he and his family knew "something," the guy's pouring hundreds of thousands into Mike's dream in the way of salaries, advertising, first-class everything, making BeBe COO, on virtually no revenue. For all the fun I've made of Mike North, not even he could have had all this unfold around him and be as oblivious to Hernandez's scheming as he says. Mike's getting close to 60 years old, owned a business, made deals with radio, TV, and book people in his life, and he thought his fairy godmother with a magic wand just dropped out of the sky in the person of this guy he "used to know" who owned some half-ass nurses' employment agency and was ready to just turn on the money spigot in a totally legal and upfront fashion? Sorry, no way I will ever believe that.

Like I said, to us laymen, the law sometimes seems to work in strange and mysterious ways, but no matter how this suit is eventually resolved LEGALLY, I don't think I'll ever change my opinion on what I said above.

Larz is a North apologist plain and simple. The Norths must have bought him dinner a time or two.

If Larz had any credibility, he'd look into the North lie about the 200 charities he's invoved with. It may not be illegal to lie about the charities you are a part of but it REALLY SHOWS what kkind of scumbag you really are. Any one that defends someone capable of lies about charitiy should lose everything and die a slow painful death by needle nose pliers.

Step up Larz. You are media giant! Make a name for yourself pussy!

I notice Ed Sherman is now "taking off" this week. He was due back today, but now he "needs a break".

Seems very strange to me.

Another thing I'm surprised none of you brought up... Legally, it has not yet been decided that Hernandez or anybody he knows even committed these crimes. Don't get me wrong: I think Hernandez is guilty as hell and I hope he spends the rest of days being a 400 pound inmate's ass loofah. I just think the persons who started this lawsuit should have waited for a conviction first. It would make their case a lot stronger than it is now, which is very weak.

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