Professor Elam

Tuesday March 25, 2014

For the last two years I started a Who's the Worst thread on my blog in advance of the Spring Ethics class. We have noted that some characters revive their status. Eliot ?Spitzer got a gig on CNNa nd then failed to be elected NY Comptroller. Nick Lessonwho took down Barings Bank has re surfaced as a speaker and consultant. Barry Minkow after claiming he had reformed is back in jail for atempting to manipulate stocks. 

Now Anthony Weiner aka Carlos Danger is getting a column at Business Insider. After having to resingn from Congress and then losing the NY Mayoral Race all over revealing photos on the net, he has landed a media gig of sorts. Remember the CEO of BI is 

The site editors vary greatly in background. Henry Blodget, a Yale graduate who previously worked on Wall Street, then was fined $2,000,000 as part of a civil suit for fraud, and another $2,000,000 in disgorgement, and being censured and barred from the securities industry by the Securities and Exchange Commission,^[10] is the CEO and Editor-In-Chief.

So maybe as they say it takes one to know one. 

Or as the article says, what could go wrong?

Would you have Anthony as your columnist?