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This Military Contractor Rocks a $100,000 Belt BucklePosted on Jul 26, 2010
David H. Brooks did well enough selling body armor to the military to hire 50 Cent and Aerosmith to play at his daughter’s bat mitzvah. He wore a gem- and diamond-encrusted American flag belt buckle, lest his patriotism come under suspicion. Now he’s on trial for allegedly improperly putting millions on his expense account, for fraud and for insider trading.
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By belt buckles, September 11, 2010 at 12:44 pm Link to this comment
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I am also glad for her:)
Report thisBy ofersince72, July 27, 2010 at 9:49 pm Link to this comment
I would be donating to that !!!
Start it up , You have my vote !!
Report thisBy gerard, July 27, 2010 at 8:23 pm Link to this comment
ofersince72: I think I should run for President on the Pacific Reconstruction Party ticket—“All for Peace and a Piece for All”, elected fitrivily by not accepting any contributions from anybody who has more than $1000 in the bank. Sack the rich and let the poor take over and run things for a while. End all wars and put the MIC out of business. Widen the streets to accommodate dancing and protest marches. Fire all police, unravel the “security” system, legalize drugs, and sit back and suck on mint juleps. Let the chips fall. Oysters on the half-shell and all that. What do you say?
Report thisBy ofersince72, July 27, 2010 at 6:32 pm Link to this comment
I might even vote for Sara if she could promise me
one of them…..with rubies!!!
He sure has good taste , and his Daughter!!!
Report thisAEROSMITH !!!!! Who wouldn’t give their left gonad
to see them live????
By ofersince72, July 27, 2010 at 6:26 pm Link to this comment
That Belt Buckle is the envy ........
I sure wish I had that strapping up my jeans,
put my Dingos on….shiiit .....cats meow…...
A B I G American flag belt buckle with rubies….
What do you think Gerard???
Report thisBy gerard, July 27, 2010 at 6:04 pm Link to this comment
Note: Please excuse previous typo”
wherever that crazy error came from, whatever addled corner of my brain makes up such words as “fitrivily”—(should mean something, don’t you think?) what I meant to say was “directly.”
Report thisBy PatrickHenry, July 27, 2010 at 6:02 pm Link to this comment
Report thisBy Steve E, July 27, 2010 at 5:53 pm Link to this comment
Republican, right?
Report thisBy gerard, July 27, 2010 at 5:20 pm Link to this comment
A naively direct question:
Is there anyone among us who has ever fitrivyly asked someone like this what they are thinking? why they do this kind of wasteful nonsense when they know thousand of people are starving? How they manage to sleep at night? Where they got the idea that it is okay to spend fabulous amounts of money on self-adornments?
I’m endlessly curious about this question and can’t understand the total lack of conscience manifest in so many people like this. I’ve never known a person that rich, let along been close enough to ask. But have any of the commenters here had the experience?
If so, what were the rationalizations?
I think unless and until someone finds a way to personally confront such excesses and distorted values—whether media does it, or friends or “interested bystanders” we can only assume —and perhaps be wrong in judging how so many of these rich oligarchs think. And if we don’t know how they think, we can’t correct this widespread social madness in general, which is rampant today.
Report thisOr am I the only one who sees it as madness? If not, what is it? Stupid questions? I think now. Just too obvioius. too importunate, too == “naive”?
By John D. Ingram, July 27, 2010 at 4:58 pm Link to this comment
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He must know somebody.
Report thisBy Caro, July 27, 2010 at 1:51 pm Link to this comment
Isn’t fraud and insider trading the American Way? Isn’t
that what our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq are dying
for?
Carolyn Kay
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By REDHORSE, July 27, 2010 at 11:50 am Link to this comment
Like Madoff—he’s just one who got caught. Remember the flat beds loaded with cash that just disappeared? Why is the American public and their tax dollars the only accountable entity in this madness?
Report thisBy diman, July 27, 2010 at 9:58 am Link to this comment
The guy lived an American Dream.
Report thisBy PatrickHenry, July 27, 2010 at 3:10 am Link to this comment
Now sieze his assets and impovish him.
Report thisBy aacme, July 27, 2010 at 1:36 am Link to this comment
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Looks like it’s unanimous so far. This guy’s nothing more than a great American entrepreneur, post-Republican-Revolution style. Doubtless a no-bid contract.
Report thisBy ofersince72, July 27, 2010 at 12:39 am Link to this comment
What an enterprising man, the American Way,
good ole fashioned get rich by the MIC and taxpayer
money. Why are we displaying this man??
There are thousands out there making their money like this
I am so glad his daughter had a happy bat.
Report thisBy samosamo, July 27, 2010 at 12:11 am Link to this comment
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Report thisCount him as another great american entrepreneural miscreant.
His motto: Whatever it takes to enrich myself at other’s expense.