{"id":2320,"date":"2007-10-06T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-06T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/al_parish_cuts_deal_in_investment_fraud_case\/"},"modified":"2007-10-06T23:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T23:55:00","slug":"al_parish_cuts_deal_in_investment_fraud_case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2320","title":{"rendered":"Al Parish cuts deal in investment-fraud case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charleston.net\/news\/2007\/oct\/06\/im_changing_my_plea_guilty18355\/?print\">From the front page of the local paper<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Al Parish, the former high-flying Charleston Southern University economist who burned through millions of investors&#8217; dollars to fund a lavish lifestyle of gold watches, custom cars and pens, confessed to his crimes Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In a plea deal that reduces the number of criminal charges from 11 to three, Parish admitted guilt in a massive case of investment fraud.<\/p>\n<p>He said little during his one-hour appearance inside the federal courthouse in Charleston. But an FBI agent said the con was simple: Investors were lured by promises of stellar returns, only to see their money pay for his extravagance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>And a Christian response to this is&#8230;.? Prayer and a lack of surprise, I would hope.  A full doctrine of sin means understanding that we all lead desperately fractured, double lives.  Read it all&#8211;KSH<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the front page of the local paper: Al Parish, the former high-flying Charleston Southern University economist who burned through millions of investors&#8217; dollars to fund a lavish lifestyle of gold watches, custom cars and pens, confessed to his crimes<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2320\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,54,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}