Remorseful Manual Laborer and Whartonite Faces Four Years in Jail
On Friday, Penn alum and petty criminal Edward Anderton was sentenced to four years of prison and ordered to repay $100,000 in restitution for a spree of identity-theft crimes he committed with Jocelyn Kirsch, his former girlfriend and partner-in-crime. Although the duo dabbled in scams in equal measure, Anderton received a lighter sentence than Kirsch - four years to her five - because, as his lawyer successfully argued, he showed greater remorse.
There are many ways to show remorse: a tearful apology, self-flagellation, etc., but, as the old saying goes, actions speak louder than words. Indeed,
Since posting bail, Anderton has worked at a manual labor job and his salary goes toward a bank account specifically for restitution. This salary, in addition to his liquefied 401K and other legally obtained money in a bank account, amounts to about one third of the total restitution he will have to pay.
A manual labor job, really? We know that Wall Street is in the toilet, and that many Whartonites are being terminated from their jobs en masse, but one would think that all Wharton alums - especially those who are criminals - would be far too proud to accept such work. So Anderton's sentence is probably well-deserved.
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November 19th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Now this is when I’d prefer to have Whartonites listed separately. Unethical dicks.
November 21st, 2008 at 2:00 am
ViolentQuaker, insert foot in mouth. This kid was an econ major in the college, not Wharton.