Judge: Plea Bargain Denied! I find the defendant GUILTY, and sentence him to Life in Alcatraz, with no possibility of Parole! bangs Gavel on podium Court, Adjourned!
We don’t know the charges. Perhaps he adopted a truth in advertising policy and sold his product as Coke, but the Coke™ company objected and he is promising to use a new name… Pepsi™.
It worked in the health insurance industry a couple decades ago. I learned that the NAMES we know have corporate offices; but the companies we deal with are a local (in my case statewide) franchise. Local guys got caught with a list of no-no’s and corporate was banned for life in our state.
So, local company that did the dirty deeds picked up a new franchise and have become largest insurer again.
Some entities see what is coming and simply avoid the court thing by making the change seem like a normal business decision. The bottom line remains the motivator, as it has and will forever.
My own plea bargain was “Go ahead and take the physical exam. If you flunk it, they wouldn’t have taken you anyway, and we’ll drop your draft-evasion charges.” So it turned out. I managed to outlast the war, the draft, and Nixon that way — plus picking up a good practical understanding of how bureaucracies work that’s served me well in later life.
salakfarm Premium Member about 3 years ago
And no one gets a horse’s head in their bed.
willispate about 3 years ago
Judge: Plea Bargain Denied! I find the defendant GUILTY, and sentence him to Life in Alcatraz, with no possibility of Parole! bangs Gavel on podium Court, Adjourned!
Wilde Bill about 3 years ago
Sometimes someone gets hurt, but that’s just business.
Imagine about 3 years ago
What does he propose to rebrand to? Trump Organization?
jessie d. about 3 years ago
MAGA aka Trump for Speaker while the accused even looks like Bannon.
Isenthor1978 about 3 years ago
Judge: “Here’s da ting. Leave the gun, take the cannoli. That’s the deal.”
Space_cat about 3 years ago
Is this was Timewaste… Facebook did?
jimchronister2016 about 3 years ago
HA!
dot-the-I about 3 years ago
Not a plea as intended; an offer not to be refused.
scote1379 Premium Member about 3 years ago
I have always wondered do Law schools have a class on how to keep a straight face ?
submachine about 3 years ago
Alcatraz is no more, better send him to Q
Masterskrain about 3 years ago
This Lawyer is almost as nuts as Lin Wood…
Drag0nr1der about 3 years ago
Sounds just like corporate America to me
Doug K about 3 years ago
If you don’t take this deal, I can’t guarantee your safety from my client.
Can't Sleep about 3 years ago
Hey, he is meeting them half way – he did let ’em put him on trial.
RobinHood about 3 years ago
And yet it has worked.
LawrenceS about 3 years ago
We don’t know the charges. Perhaps he adopted a truth in advertising policy and sold his product as Coke, but the Coke™ company objected and he is promising to use a new name… Pepsi™.
Prey about 3 years ago
He doesn´t look like he works for Apple!
Ignatz Premium Member about 3 years ago
If he’s a Republican politician, that would work.
ewaldoh about 3 years ago
It worked in the health insurance industry a couple decades ago. I learned that the NAMES we know have corporate offices; but the companies we deal with are a local (in my case statewide) franchise. Local guys got caught with a list of no-no’s and corporate was banned for life in our state.
So, local company that did the dirty deeds picked up a new franchise and have become largest insurer again.
sandpiper about 3 years ago
Some entities see what is coming and simply avoid the court thing by making the change seem like a normal business decision. The bottom line remains the motivator, as it has and will forever.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member about 3 years ago
Silly crook. That sort of thing only works if you’re talking to a congressional committee.
1953Baby about 3 years ago
Ya know, I HATE it when the comix are true. . .
JudyAz about 3 years ago
Isn’t the defendant’s table on the wrong side?
Old Crusty about 3 years ago
I was at Alcatraz once. I used to raise birds there.
gcottay about 3 years ago
At least he’s not claiming immunity as the rightful POTUS.
mindjob about 3 years ago
Instead of rubbing people out, he’s gonna send them to China
MS72 about 3 years ago
So that’s the reason facebook is now meta.
phileaux about 3 years ago
Business as usual
awgarrett about 3 years ago
Must be a white-collar crime. If it was beating your baby momma or ripping off a store, there would be zero bail and ready to hit the streets again.
I wonder if “The Squad”, in their drive to empty the prisons, realize that their efforts would release white-collar criminals as well?
Mediatech about 3 years ago
I was going to find you not guilty, but I think I’ll give you ten years to be in the safe side.
mistercatworks about 3 years ago
This is actually considered a perfectly acceptable “plea bargain” for large corporations.
poppacapsmokeblower about 3 years ago
I think we just experienced such a rebranding of justice. I’ll let you all argue over to which recent judgement I refer.
schaefer jim about 3 years ago
I work for the court system for 30 plus years and I seen worst plea bargains. What is sad, some were accepted by the court.
Cerabooge about 3 years ago
A typical plea deal for corporate criminals.
paranormal about 3 years ago
Mr. King’s attempt at calling his store Kmart…
Richard S Russell Premium Member about 3 years ago
My own plea bargain was “Go ahead and take the physical exam. If you flunk it, they wouldn’t have taken you anyway, and we’ll drop your draft-evasion charges.” So it turned out. I managed to outlast the war, the draft, and Nixon that way — plus picking up a good practical understanding of how bureaucracies work that’s served me well in later life.
DondiDoo about 3 years ago
So now it’ll be called the Tramp Organization?
christelisbetty about 3 years ago
Rebranded as a political party.
Richard S Russell Premium Member about 3 years ago
Forget crime. As somebody once advised L. Ron Hubbard, “The real money is in religion.”
Count Olaf Premium Member about 3 years ago
Soooo… his client is the CEO of the socialist propaganda and private information gathering monopoly formerly known as Facebook.
NWdryad about 3 years ago
That doesn’t look like Mark Zuckerberg.
Bilan about 3 years ago
Am I the only one that thinks ‘and no one gets hurt’ sounds like a threat against the judge?
Omniman about 3 years ago
Wouldn’t it be nice if this were a joke?
198.23.5.11 about 3 years ago
Famous gag from THE FLINTSTONES—
Defense lawyer says—“Does my client look like a stick up man?”
He turns around to see the jury standing with their hands up.
willie_mctell about 3 years ago
I worked in SF for 15 years. Most if that time the nearest window to me looked down on the Embarcadero. I could see Alcatraz and the Bay Bridge.
jvscanlan Premium Member about 3 years ago
Facebook on trial . . .