Hedge Fund Manager Who Spent Investor Funds On Prized Teddy Bear Collection Gets Five Years Lopped Off Sentence
Teddy-loving Paul Greenwood will be home sooner than he and his beloved stuffed animals thought.
Non-Sequiturs: 06.30.16
* This excerpt from Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (affiliate link) explains how a kid from the Rustbelt felt like a fish out of water at Yale Law School. [Huffington Post] * Is the police culture in America at odds with the democratic nature of our government? [Katz Justice] * Increasing associate compensation may be increasing the divide between the haves and have-nots. [Law and More] * It is okay if you don't have it all figured out when you go to law school. [Legal Cheek] * Putting up a fight over MoFo's "Ivy League" rates. [Law360 (sub. req.)] * Explaining the sex scandal that is rocking the Oakland police department. [Slate]
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