[139525] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level 3 Agrees to Purchase Global Crossing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Coulson)
Mon Apr 11 12:34:52 2011
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:34:05 -0400
From: David Coulson <david@davidcoulson.net>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1104111205560.32214@whammy.cluebyfour.org>
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On 4/11/11 12:24 PM, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
> I seem to recall several dot-com-era CxOs spending very lavishly on
> themselves, or getting their employers to give them large 'loans' that
> were never paid back. Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling, Bernie Ebbers, Gary
> Winnick, Joe Nacchio, etc...
>
This is what I was thinking of - Awesome photo too.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9750948/ns/business-small_business/
> The story of former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski spending $2 million on
> his wife's 40th birthday party springs to mind... Tyco paid for half
> of it, under the guise of the party being a shareholder meeting...
Wish I could have been a fly on the wall during the meeting when someone
suggested that idea.
David
