EARNING HIS KEEP
“I’d like to sit down and shut up, but I have an obligation, and I can’t do it. All I can do is ask your patience.”
Herbert Stern, defense attorney in Joe Nacchio’s trial on charges of criminal insider trading, whose closing argument took five hours.
CAPTIVE AUDIENCE
“Some of them may have been irritated, but that’s irrelevant. Their job is to listen. It takes the time that it takes.”
Anthony Accetta, legal analyst, about the effect of Stern’s long closing argument on jurors.
COINCIDENCE?
“He feels just awful that this link has been made.”
Sam Bornstein, spokesman for Menu Foods. The company’s chief executive sold about half his shares in the company three weeks before the deaths of 16 pets led to a recall of its pet-food products.
MONEY NO OBJECT, BUT I’LL TAKE $25 MILLION
“He enjoys creating homes and getting them just the way he wants them. Money doesn’t really seem to matter to him.”
William Bone, Alabama auctioneer, about why security-software entrepreneur John McAfee is selling at auction his $25 million property near Colorado Springs.
