Buying press coverage

Just another part of Mr. Scrushy’s criminal defense strategy? See also Feb. 22. (AP, “Writer Says Ex-Chief of HealthSouth Paid for Positive Coverage”, Jan. 19) (via the increasingly indispensable Lattman).

Just another part of Mr. Scrushy’s criminal defense strategy? See also Feb. 22. (AP, “Writer Says Ex-Chief of HealthSouth Paid for Positive Coverage”, Jan. 19) (via the increasingly indispensable Lattman).

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  • Those of us in Birmingham who are watching the Scrushy travesty close up are not surprised to see the detail in which he has prepared his smear campaign, ready to instantly unleash on the first paid-off stooge who blew the whistle on him. Curious that Scrushy’s legendary degree of micromanagement is evident here, yet his fingerprints could not be detected on the massive HealthSouth fraud scheme, which was carried out by a cadre of upper level executives, without giving the CEO an inkling.