That is just crazy! ( Oh, I guess that's the point) It still shouldn't forgive the crime. She should do the time!

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She should not be able to use this defense. I certainly do not think that she will get away with it; she was sooo publicly and actively involved that there will months worth of witnesses to refute.

Michale Koss holds some responsibility, and I'm sure the minority shareholders will get their day in court too. As CEO and CFO and COO how do you not miss $30, million on a company that last reported $38 million in sales. He was responsible for certifying the financial statements.

It is foolish for one person to wear as many hats as Koss did, and I can only guess that he did this because of his previous financial woes that resulted in bankruptcy.

Too soon old, too late smart.

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"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi

Regardless of the outcome, the "addiction" route is a good PR move. When Koss stock hits $0.00/share and everyone loses their job because of her, you'll still have to feel kind of bad as she's an addict.

I've known people on anti-depressants (lots of them), I've known people who committed suicide due to depression, people who have been addicted to everything from booze to hard drugs to weed to shopping... I still don't have much sympathy. Being sad is part of being alive. I worry more about people who are NOT depressed than those who are. As Nancy said, this lady seemingly has control over her actions and that should be the bottom line. Even if you're unhappy or craving something desperately, you still have the ability to say "no."

Also - I agree with others who say there has to be more to this than just her. In the wake of all the creative accounting disasters of the last decade, I don't see how a public company could let this much money slip under their radar. There had to have been more than just a crooked exec and lousy auditor involved.

good thinking. because any kind of non-violent release program wouldn't have any kind of review process built in- just throw the jail door wide open, give criminals a big hug, and a free Cadillac to drive off into the sunset...

You and I probably reached that same conclusion in the same millisecond of time, OldTosan. Her husband's a doctor. I think it's a safe assumption that he's not an idiot. If that assumption is correct, then I find it impossible to believe that he could claim ignorance about his wife's spending habits. Prosecutors need to look very, very carefully at him as well. Oh, I forgot... He's probably mentally ill, just like his wife (insert sarcastic groan here).

A big part of crime is opportunity. Do you think someone else is going to give Sachdeva an opportunity like this again? You want to support her indefinitely, as a tax payer, just to keep her locked up? If her crime brings Koss down, that will be a terrible thing for those who work there, and a bad thing for those who've invested in Koss. But keeping her in prison won't help either of those things.

Will it deter others? Maybe. But how should those who failed to notice what was going on be held accountable?

Isn't listening to Belling....as much as you do....banned under the Geneva Convention ? Sir....I think you have been the victim of torture! Much of what you have been saying is now making sense to me....you have been under duress. Hang in there....we will find you and free you from your captors.

Money means nothing to people like this, Tine. They've got gobs of it and they've presumably NEVER had money problems (at least not while Sue was 'balancing' the Koss checkbook). The big equalizer between people like you, me and Sue is TIME. I have no idea what prison/jail/HOC-like correction time she's looking at, but no amount of money can buy FREE time outside of the prison walls. Remember what happened to that guy from Enron just as everything was collapsing around him? The amount of money HE stole is chump change compared to what Sue did. If Sue takes the same route as Clifford Baxter did, then your worry about the taxpayers having to support her for the rest of her life in prison is gone. I think that Sue's ____tting in her designer gold-laced boots right now at the thought of spending one minute in prison compare to the lifestyle she's led so far. Let's watch what happens just before sentencing time if/when she's found guilty of this alleged crime.

As you know, there's a basic philosophical difference between conservative people like me who want our prisons and jails to serve as a venue of 'punishment', and progressive people like you who think that just about everybody in an orange prison jumpsuit can be rehabilitated given the proper environment/program. Huckabee's revolving door policy of releasing prisoners has bit him in the ass as you well know. Let's hope it torpedoes his political career and possibly his broadcasting career at FOXNEWS.

We have to draw priorities with our limited tax dollars. You want yours spent on social programs and you've been consistent with that viewpoint. I want mine spent on building & staffing more prisons and I've been consistent with that viewpoint. The fact that (D) Doyle has funded more public defender positions in his state budget instead of increasing the number of District Attorneys clearly shows that he agrees with your philosophy much more than mine. Heck, even (D) David Clarke agrees with me in that he feels 'it is the Sheriff's duty to make jail and the HOC as legally as inhospitable as possible' (paraphrasing from an interview he did on WISN AM1130's morning show earlier this week). Clarke wants to make his jails and the HOC places where thugs don't ever want to be.

There are good and bad people in this world. Those who have done things to 'earn' an all-expense paid extended stay at Waupun are clearly the worst of the worst that our State has to offer. I would argue that these 'guests' are incapable of changing their ways through any social program or any rehabilitation. You do the crime, you do the time.

That's nothing I have been suffering from Affluenza for some time now and mortgagitus (Fear of paying my mortgage) but with some added shoplifting in my life I will be healed.