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 over 2 years ago
And no one gets a horse’s head in their bed.
willispate over 2 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 over 2 years ago
Sometimes someone gets hurt, but that’s just business.
Imagine over 2 years ago
What does he propose to rebrand to? Trump Organization?
jessie d. Premium Member over 2 years ago
MAGA aka Trump for Speaker while the accused even looks like Bannon.
Isenthor1978 over 2 years ago
Judge: “Here’s da ting. Leave the gun, take the cannoli. That’s the deal.”
Space_cat over 2 years ago
Is this was Timewaste… Facebook did?
jimchronister2016 over 2 years ago
HA!
dot-the-I over 2 years ago
Not a plea as intended; an offer not to be refused.
scote1379 Premium Member over 2 years ago
I have always wondered do Law schools have a class on how to keep a straight face ?
submachine over 2 years ago
Alcatraz is no more, better send him to Q
Masterskrain Premium Member over 2 years ago
This Lawyer is almost as nuts as Lin Wood…
Drag0nr1der over 2 years ago
Sounds just like corporate America to me
Doug K over 2 years ago
If you don’t take this deal, I can’t guarantee your safety from my client.
Can't Sleep over 2 years ago
Hey, he is meeting them half way – he did let ’em put him on trial.
RobinHood over 2 years ago
And yet it has worked.
LawrenceS over 2 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 over 2 years ago
He doesn´t look like he works for Apple!
Ignatz Premium Member over 2 years ago
If he’s a Republican politician, that would work.
ewaldoh over 2 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 over 2 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 over 2 years ago
Silly crook. That sort of thing only works if you’re talking to a congressional committee.
1953Baby over 2 years ago
Ya know, I HATE it when the comix are true. . .
JudyAz over 2 years ago
Isn’t the defendant’s table on the wrong side?
Old Crusty over 2 years ago
I was at Alcatraz once. I used to raise birds there.
gcottay over 2 years ago
At least he’s not claiming immunity as the rightful POTUS.
mindjob over 2 years ago
Instead of rubbing people out, he’s gonna send them to China
MS72 over 2 years ago
So that’s the reason facebook is now meta.
phileaux over 2 years ago
Business as usual
awgarrett over 2 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 over 2 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 over 2 years ago
This is actually considered a perfectly acceptable “plea bargain” for large corporations.
poppacapsmokeblower over 2 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 over 2 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 over 2 years ago
A typical plea deal for corporate criminals.
paranormal over 2 years ago
Mr. King’s attempt at calling his store Kmart…
Richard S Russell Premium Member over 2 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 over 2 years ago
So now it’ll be called the Tramp Organization?
christelisbetty over 2 years ago
Rebranded as a political party.
Richard S Russell Premium Member over 2 years ago
Forget crime. As somebody once advised L. Ron Hubbard, “The real money is in religion.”
Count Olaf Premium Member over 2 years ago
Soooo… his client is the CEO of the socialist propaganda and private information gathering monopoly formerly known as Facebook.
NWdryad over 2 years ago
That doesn’t look like Mark Zuckerberg.
Bilan over 2 years ago
Am I the only one that thinks ‘and no one gets hurt’ sounds like a threat against the judge?
Omniman over 2 years ago
Wouldn’t it be nice if this were a joke?
198.23.5.11 over 2 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 over 2 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 over 2 years ago
Facebook on trial . . .