Pilot won't be prosecuted

hoorta

@demoted said:
So they are guilty... Just no jail time. Money gets you out of everything.

If you bothered to read the detials, there could be jail involved- it's just Pilot is making restitution in spades. So on the corporate level, Pilot is OK in the eyes of the Feds.

The Gipper

The Soldier said:
Carpetbagger owner, dishonest businessman.

Just like the Steelers founder, though he was probably more of a home grown dishonest businessman.

Nearly evey owner can be called a carpetbagger in that they are not natives of the town/region their team is located. Hell, we had a non-carpetbagger owner, a Cleveland native owner called Randy Lerner. I will try my luck now with this carpetbagger.

I mean the guy that is just as beloved as Art Rooney was....Ralph Wilson, was a carpetbagger from Detroit.

Then there was Art Modell....the biggest carpetbagger of them all.

There are the DeBartolo/Yorks. Last time I looked their NFL team did not play in Youngstown.

I suspect that if you went down the list of all 31 majority owners of NFL teams, 75% of them could be considered "carpetbaggers".

(31 excludes community owned Packers)

LBC mike

This is good news.

gftChris

Carpetbagger - never heard the term before. Lest we forget, though, this particular carpetbagger was also a carpetbagger part-owner of the Steelers.

The Gipper

@gftchris said:
Carpetbagger - never heard the term before. Lest we forget, though, this particular carpetbagger was also a carpetbagger part-owner of the Steelers.

Really? You mean you have never heard of the term at all, or have never heard it in terms of sports ownership.

Here is an article regarding the origins of the term carpetbagger:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpetbagger

gftChris

Yeah I found wikipedia, thanks.

Not a term that made its way this side of the atlantic.

The Gipper

@gftchris said:

Yeah I found wikipedia, thanks.

Not a term that made its way this side of the atlantic.

OK, well, a large majority over here...including most Cleveland Cavalier fans would not know the connotation in the term "roundhead".

gftChris

@the-gipper said:
OK, well, a large majority over here...including most Cleveland Cavalier fans would not know the connotation in the term "roundhead".

Sure, and they'd have no reason to, I wouldn't hold it against them.

Saying that, if you're a fan of a 'roundhead' team, you should probably know cavalier. But cavalier is such a widespread term in medieval times that it's not tied down to roundheads vs cavaliers.

miktoxic

@lbc-mike said:
This is good news.

should be followed up shortly by gordon's bad news.

Tour2ma

@jcam222 said:
Every individual in the company is fair game for prosecution still if found complicit. This simply negotiates a settlement for the overall company. It is pretty black and white in the way its written that neither Haslam or any other Pilot employee are safe.

Yes... Pilot is the only "person" cleared so far...

@the-gipper said:
Here is an article regarding the origins of the term carpetbagger:

Don't forget the book/ movie... kind of Howard Hughes inspired...