Legal Commentary

**WARNING: A LINKED STORY CONTAINS LANGUAGE SOME READERS MAY FIND OFFENSIVE, ESPECIALLY THOSE CURRENTLY RESIDING IN A MONESTARY. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK**

A reader sent me a link to this story before Easter, but it seemed sacrilegious to post about this too close to Holy Week. The story hasn't mellowed with age, though. It's the heart-warming tale of the CEO of a subprime lender trashing a deposition with foul language; in fact, an "F-Bomb" carpet bombing that laid waste to any sense of decorum. Now, this blog isn't exactly a haven of the prim and proper, and "snark" is a word with which we are well familiar, but even wing nuts like us have our limits.

The judged who sanctioned this low-life $29,000 for his behavior watched the videotaped deposition and counted a total of 73 instances where the crud ball dropped the F-Bomb. Reporter Karen Donovan notes that this pales in comparison with the movie Goodfellas, where the word was used 246 times during the film's 145 minutes. Unlike the characters in Goodfellas, however, the potty mouth in this case is only a wanna-be tough guy. All that posturing and tough guy talk, apparently aimed to convince himself that he's "Baaaaad," and he gets his sorry tukus hauled before a judge, and Hiz Honor  slaps him down like a child, notwithstanding his pleading that he's a poor, weak-minded troll who can't help his ejaculatory crudities because he suffers from "anxiety disorder." In other words, he's not really a hard guy, he just plays one on TV.

This clown would have been perfect as an aide to the late, great Eliot Spitzer, but that career path appears closed now, doesn't it? It's nice to see, however, that the prostitute who serviced the Spitz is now getting more than her 15 minutes of fame. Even The Donald wants to "promote" her, which isn't surprising, is it? Maybe there's a place for her in subprime, too. As an "Executive Assistant" to a subprime CEO, perhaps?

According to the story, the tough guy's attorney was caught on camera snickering at his client's antics. Wonderful. And yet, many lawyers appear to resent the fact that ordinary folks would say that, by describing a person as an attorney, you're ascribing to them a blatant character defect. You roll around in the mud with pigs, you get dirty.

Cross posted on Bank Lawyer's Blog