Professor Elam

I'm always really interested when one of my business classes brings up Healthsouth because my mother is an Occupational Therapist who was working for them when all of this went down. She had gone up to the corporate headquarters in Birmingham and was amazed and disgusted with how the city put Richard Scrushy on a pedastal and how huge his ego was.  It was not a shock to most employees when the fraud came to light, it was just mostly embarrassing to say that you worked for them.  My mom and all of her co-workers also followed everything leading up to the trial. They had heard that Scrushy was actually going around to different inner city churches each weekend, trying to manipulate people that might end up in the jury pool into believing he was a great guy. She was always dumbfounded that a jury could believe that all these different CFO's over the years all had the same scheme when they didn't even work together, but Schrushy knew nothing. Right…..

I was really impressed with Mr Bean and his sincerity. You were correct when you said that listening to him first hand really made this issue jump out of a textbook and apply it to a real person. I'm sure that he knew that the truth would come out one day.  I can't imagine the anxiety that that would cause. How can you ever really just enjoy your life after you've cheated? He didn't mention that one of the CFO's committed suicide around this time as well.