Friday, December 4, 2009
Media / Silverman Morning Roundup: Conventional Behavior, a Whole Lotta Fraud and the Ongoing Saga of Peyton Place
Posted by Jack Silverman on Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:58 AM
The new convention center financing plan is finally revealed, sans hotel. Goldman Sachs says it's kosher, so there's nothing to worry about, right?... Former Lakewood city court clerk "borrowed" over $11,000 from traffic citation revenue, and apparently forgot to pay it back.... Three teens are indicted for the botched drive-by shooting that killed an innocent 16-year-old girl....
The Nashville Symphony gets another Grammy nomination, its eighth since joining forces with the Franklin-based Naxos label in 2000.... Nashville-based Corrections Corporation of America plans to close a Minnesota prison due to a crash in the Minnesota inmate market.... Michael David Barrett, who allegedly videotaped ESPN reporter Erin Andrews through a peephole in a Nashville hotel, may have stalked and videotaped Andrews in other locations....
An MTSU nursing professor resigns after being convicted and sentenced on four federal felony counts of bank and wire fraud.... A former Gallatin oilman has been indicted in connection with a multimillion-dollar mail fraud case and an extravagant Sweet 16 party for his daughter that was aired on MTV and tipped off the ripped-off investors about his whereabouts.... Could this be the beginning of a bank-robbing spree?...
And finally, country singer Martina McBride now owns the controversial Peyton Manning jersey once donned by Jeff Fisher at charity event. Now that the Titans have won five straight games since the stunt, maybe the bozos who made such a big deal about Fisher's alleged faux pas (which in reality was a good-humored homage to the event's keynote speaker, former Colts head coach Tony Dungy) will shut up....
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