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Social Whirl Awaits Former Inmates
While observing the latest Palm Beacher trading tux for prison garb this week, I thought about a quote I’d just read from author Louis Auchincloss.
In an interview published in the 2/25/08 issue of The New Yorker, Auchincloss bemoaned the lack of stigma associated with jail time:
“He (former Sotheby’s chair and PBer Al Taubman) comes out of jail and he’s just as popular and giving as many parties as he ever did! There’s no disgrace in going to jail anymore unless it’s for some disgusting, disgusting crime.”
This news might actually be light through the jailhouse bars for Baron Black of Crossharbour, aka former media tycoon Conrad Black — depending on his peers’ definition of “disgusting, disgusting crime.”
Black is serving a 78-month sentence on convictions of mail fraud and obstruction of justice at the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex’s low-security facility south of Ocala.
Photo: Coleman’s low-security entrance
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By Don
March 6, 2008 1:27 PM | Link to this
Chain Ball, anyone?
http://www.vulcanhammer.org/?p=548
By Joyce
March 10, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this
Don — Funny! That used to be the shorthand for galas when I first worked here as a reporter…The Eye Ball and Doggie Ball come immediately to mind!