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Former NESN exec convicted of stealing money from the network; used the money to buy a plane and luxury cars
By adamg on Fri, 11/03/2023 - 11:53pm
A federal jury in Boston today convicted a one-time NESN vice-president of defrauding the network out of $575,000 by routing money meant to pay an online consultant to a fake company he controlled.
Ariel Legassa was arrested in February, 2022, a month after NESN fired and sued him over the bogus payments. Legassa had been NESN's, vice president for digital media; the money was meant for a New York Web design firm, Alley NY, but instead was paid to a bogus company Legassa made up called Alley CT.
The jury convicted Legassa on all ten counts - seven of mail fraud and three of unlawful monetary transactions. The judge in the case set sentencing for Dec. 20.
According to the US Attorney's office, Legassa used the money he funneled to himself to buy a private plane, a BMW, a Tesla and a Land Rover, as well as to pay credit-card bills.
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What's the frequency
So do you follow the AP or Chicago style? You didn't include a comma in the last paragraph?
Not a fan of the Oxford comma no
I admit it, although more out of force of habit than any strong moral convictions.
I've endured this argument at every place I've
ever worked. My position is always, "Shelve the style guides and prioritize reader comprehension on the first scan."
Nobody needs an Oxford comma to parse, "I ate an apple, a peach and a pear." But longer sentences -- e.g., where the middle of three clauses contains an "and" but is joined to the final clause by an "and" -- can benefit from an Oxford comma. It will make the sentence easier to parse without having to reread it to be certain what those "ands" are joining.
Recast instead, you say? Sometimes you want those three ideas expressed in one sentence for the cumulative power of their expression in a single mental breath. I find this particularly true with analytical writing on complex topics. Breaking up those clauses to avoid using an Oxford comma can sound weirdly staccato in a distracting way. Leave my damned comma in and move on.
Be an Oxford comma flexitarian. Readers (and eye-rollers at pedantry) will thank you for it.
The money gets divided, the
The money gets divided, the women get excited, now I'm broke and it's no joke..wait. it IS a joke!
As Dylan said,
"to live outside the law you must be honest."
He really thought those cars and planes wouldn't attract attention from the feds?
Shades of Richard Pryor in
Superman III. (Also a key plot point in Office Space, in which they explicitly acknowledge the nod.)
That's a cool first sentence
I had to read more to find out that he was the digital media VP, not "The VP of Defrauding the Network".
Magoo sez
Yoo dig in the garden, watch out for bones. Magoo.
Explains why
NESN is so obscenely expensive. Haven't subscribed since they stopped being available on YouTube TV. That's three seasons now without an irrelevant Red Sox team. I've barely noticed.
Maybe, but that theft amounts to
barely 1% of NESN's annual revenue. I doubt that moved the needle on anyone's bill that much.
I ditched NESN a decade ago, long before the Sox started swooning. Wanting it kept me on cable, and once I decided NESN was too pricey, I ditched cable altogether. Paying only for what I actually watch has been a far better deal, though the streamers are now making OTT TV nearly as expensive as cable packages.
Have they made their app compatible with Fire yet?
Like they promised to be just about to do a couple of years ago? My son gave me a subscription back then, but I could only use it on my phone, which is a terrible platform for baseball. Because I haven't been watching, the team is failing.