Legal Secretary of the Day: For the Ladies
By day, Jarriette Richie was a legal secretary. By night, she was one of the small business entrepreneurs who are so important to the vitality of the American economy. Not only that, Richie’s business provided services to a critically underserved community. Richie was the proprietor of Show ‘N Tell Entertainment — which arranged erotic male dancers for ladies exclusively.
But you know how difficult it is to get credit in this economy. And Richie needed to fly dancers and guests down to Puerto Rico for an “event.” So, she had to improvise.
The Washington Post picks up the narrative, after the jump.
The Washington Post reports that Richie initially tried to fund her business with counterfeit checks deposited at a credit union. But when her account was frozen, she went to plan B — her law firm’s credit card:
Richie then used a corporate American Express Card to buy $21,375.30 in additional airline tickets, [according to federal investigator Diane Eickman].She also put $25,473 in resort charges on that card, Eickman wrote.
That corporate card had been issued to an attorney at a firm that later merged with Saul Ewing. Information about that corporate credit card was kept in a locked room near Richie’s desk, Eickman wrote.
I’m not sure if this is what American Express OPEN had in mind.
I scoured the internet looking for some of the Show ‘N Tell talent unwittingly sponsored by Saul Ewing. But I came up empty. And Kash’s hard drive is password-protected.
But it would have been great to catch a glimpse of the Saul Ewing attorney’s face while he or she was reading their credit card bill. Great squared if we could have seen the attorney’s spouse/partner/significant other.
Alas, a tipster notes that we might never know the identity of the card-holding Saul Ewing attorney:
This probably won’t be advertised on Saul Ewing’s website.
Secretary Charged With Fraud in Exotic Dancer Scheme [Washington Post]
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FIRRRRST!
Suggestion: Create two ATL sites. One for the big boys and another - Junior ATL - for small firms in small cities. Hate to sound like a snob, but I don't come to this site for stories about some firm I've never heard of. The new site could be called Below the Law or Below Above the Law.
*ejaculates onto screen*
-gross old man
Huh. When I saw the picture I immediately expected Lat to wax homoerotic about some sweet 19 year old law student.
Patrick Swayze is looking a lot better.
Guys in my law firm wear french cuffs all the time. It's no big deal.
Hi, gross old man! Taking a break from autoadmit today?
Do straight women find the combination of a shirtless bowtie and cuffs particularly appealing, because it looks ridiculous.
#8
Honestly, I didn't even see the bowtie and cuffs I had to go back and look at the picture again because all I remembered was the body (muscles, muscles, muscles).
I bet it was Partner Emeritus' credit card, and I bet he was in on the hijinks. I also bet the young man pictured is affiliated with Rick of Rick's Cabaret.
PE - Was this dude's chest built for speed or distance in your sick homo-erotic world? Did you play motor boat you sick motherf*uc&er?
uuuuuuhhhhhhh
-gross old man
"a critically undeserved community"
Why do you think ladies are undeserving?
Elie should've adjust the article title to read "for the ladies (or gays *cough* lat *cough*)."
This comment is in response to poster #10. I am quite comfortable admitting that the gentleman in the photograph is attractive and in peak physical shape. At my age I am not certain that I would have the stamina or physical capacity necessary to satisfy him.. I would nonetheless take pleasure in watching a male associate at either my firm or a peer firm engage in carnal acts with this gentleman.
Whoa there PE - it looks like you're taking "hybrid tough love" in a whole new direction...
@12 - It's not that Elie really thinks the ladies are "undeserved," it's just that he is so fucking dumb that he refuses to proofread anything and he tries his best, HLS degree and all, to spell "underserved."
You motorboating sunovabitch, you old sailor you
16 - did Elie fuck your mom or something? Jeez. He's not that bad.
Elie -- Nice undercurrent of nasty in the post. More please.
My firm has been working with LW on a recent case. When I spoke to him last month, the Latham partner I'm working with was praising the firm's management committee, saying the firm was now in a much better position than many of its competitors (he mentioned Clifford Chance as a firm with big problems), and talked about how the firm was minimizing its "leverage". I asked if "leverage" meant "hard working associates", and he said yes.
http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1081628&mc=14&forum_id=2#12698906
Latham's model is to increase leverage to insane degrees during booms, then to fire everyone during the subsequent bust.
Watch for more mass firings during the second dip of this recession.
Is Dave Gordon of Latham NY brain damaged? Why'd he go to Syracuse law school after going to Cornell UG?
For that matter, why did he hire a huge 2009 class in late 2007 when everyone was talking abou the credit crunch and deal work was drying up? Why'd he continue to hire 2008ers as 3Ls during the same period of time?
Ellie,
American Express' OPEN network is for *SMALL* businesses, not corporate accounts. For corporate accounts, you want to link to here: http://corp.americanexpress.com/gcs/cards/
That said, I'm not sure how big this law firm was, but if it was more than a few attorneys, it probably was in fact a corporate account.
The guy looks like "Ashley" (female) from Top Chef.
Cheftestants to 190!!!!!
18 = Elie.
18, Elie's writing IS that bad.
4 - You just wanna wax on a homo erotically.
2 - Fut the shuck up with that crap already. Nobody besides you is entertained. Piss off and die!
No wonder she keeps her day job. She clearly wasn't smart enough to get the client(s) to pony up for the tickets and resort chargesto get her talent to the event. Which explains why she got busted kiting checks and embezzling funds through the Amex account.
Ummm yeah...if somone could provide me with that Obama LSAT score that would be great.....
The cardholder was an attorney who left just as Saul Ewing acquired the law firm Schmeltzer, Aptaker & Shepard. His name was Ralph Johnson - now at Blank Rome - see http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=10&bioID=3137
Apparently, the office manager and accounting department at Saul Ewing didn't have the foresight to cancel the corporate cards of those who jumped off a sinking ship as they boarded.
On good authority the firm has cut slalreis for 1-4L by 25% and 6% for all other associates. Curious why no one else posted about this, but then again it is Saul Ewing, based in Phaildelphia, home to that illustrious firm , Wolf Bl.... oh well.