How do you plead guilty to sexual abuse, unlawful imprisonment, forcible touching and harassment and get 5 days community service?
http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/06/24/new.york.banker.guilty/index.html?hpt=ju_c2
New York (CNN) -- An Egyptian executive accused of sexually abusing an employee at a luxury hotel in New York pleaded guilty Friday to sex abuse in the third degree and will also face a $5 million lawsuit tied to the case, his attorney said.
Mahmoud Abdel-Salam Omar, 74, the chairman of a salt company who once headed an Egyptian bank, had originally been charged with sexual abuse, unlawful imprisonment, forcible touching and harassment.
He was sentenced to five days' community service, which Omar has already completed. He must also submit his DNA to the state database, said Joan Vollero, a representative for the Manhattan district attorney.
Will
HalfDork
6/26/11 1:02 a.m.
The ending of Lethal Weapon 2 comes to mind.
The dude is 74 and still committing assault? I say still because this can't be his first offense. Wow. Big Money is a hell of a drug.
To set a precedent for, say, if the head of the IMF did the same thing in the same district. Duh.
".....forcible touching".
The term makes me think of that Monty Python episode that involved the running gag of the Spanish Inquisition.
At one point, the priests(?) "torture" an elderly woman by forcing her to sit in a comfy chair while they poke her quite gently with pillows. I realize that is NOT what was involved here, just what first came to my mind when I read this.
Dr. Hess wrote:
To set a precedent for, say, if the head of the IMF did the same thing in the same district. Duh.
Eh, the "if you're rich enough, the law doesn't apply to you" precedent was set a long, long time ago. (But I still +1'ed your reply)
