Today marks Day Three of the Raj Rajaratnam trial and surely you’re so excited you could hardly sleep las night. Opening statements were heard yesterday and the first witnesses are set to take the stand later this morning. Beyond his seven (7) lawyers, the people in the room most important to the Galleon founder are probably the 12 men and women (plus six alternates) who comprise the jury and will determine his guilt or innocence. Among them, they include a drummer in a band and a fan of “Two and a Half Men.”
Juror 1: 49, station agent for the MTA
Juror 2: 70, “a retired bookkeeper with past criminal jury experience.” Watches “Two and a Half Men.”
Juror 3: 27, an activities therapist at a nursing home. Watches “True Blood” and “Grey’s Anatomy.”
Juror 4: 49, works in the food services industry for the Board of Education. Watches soap operas.
Juror 5: 61, nurse. Doesn’t read newspapers, babysits grandchildren in her spare time.
Juror 6: 52, works for the New Jersey Board of Education. Is “a fan of Oprah Winfrey.”
Juror 7: 68, is a “receiving clerk.” Reads the New York Daily News and watches “The Late Show” with David Letterman.
Juror 8: 46, teaches blind and visually impaired children. Watches reality TV, loves baseball.
Juror 9: 56, graphic artist for Apple. Watches “the basic guy stuff” (“Man v. Food” and ESPN).
Juror 10: 48, works for the New York City Administration for Children’s Services.
Juror 11: 53, works for Verizon. Watches “Oprah,” “Dateline” and “America’s Most Wanted.”
Juror 12: 55, works in customer service for the MTA. Churh-goer, bird watcher, reads five newspapers, and has a bachelor’s degree in business administration.
The alternates include: a 35 year-old whose band needs a drummer, an information technology specialist for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and an unemployed guy who, in the early 1990s, was charged with a misdemeanor for receiving stolen property. “It was a street sign that was in my room and they threw as much of the book as they could at me, but I got away from it,” he told Judge Holwell on Monday.
Teachers, Municipal Workers Are Among Those Picked for Rajaratnam’s Jury [Bloomberg]
A true cross-section of America, and boy is it frightening.
“a receiving clerk” AKA a secretary.
“a receiving clerk” AKA a secretary.
are you kidding? these people are the garden spot of Ceti Alpha V.
What are all the blind and visibly impaired children going to do without Juror 8?!
Just pop ‘em in front of a TV for a few weeks.
IT guy from FRBNY has never heard of Lloyd Blankfeen? What do they keep those IT guys in a vault below Hamilton’s grave or something?!
with this jury that fat fuck better start wearing an anal plug to stretch himself out
Getting away with stealing a street sign and admitting it to a judge is the NKI.
Juror 12 most be reading those 5 newspapers for the Sudoku if she’s never heard of anyone on the list or Galleon.
Juror 12 most be reading those 5 newspapers for the Sudoku if she’s never heard of anyone on the list or Galleon.
Alternate 3 is Tepper’s friend…
“Juror 9: 56, graphic artist for Apple. Watches “the basic guy stuff” (“Man v. Food” and ESPN).” and is overcompensating.
receiving clerks take packages in the backdoor
receiving clerks take packages in the backdoor
God who the fuckkkkkkkkkkk caresssssssssssssssssss what these people do. This is a more open and shut case than when a jury was selected to decide whether 2 and a half men was the lamest piece of shit in human history.
God who the fuckkkkkkkkkkk caresssssssssssssssssss what these people do. This is a more open and shut case than when a jury was selected to decide whether 2 and a half men was the lamest piece of shit in human history.
I love foreign objects shoved up Bree Olson’s ass.
I love foreign objects shoved up Bree Olson’s ass.
I love foreign objects shoved up Bree Olson’s ass.
So much for innocent before proven guilty.
Scoff if you must, but it’s pretty much impossible to get Marmaduke, the Lockhorns and Family Circus all in one paper.
2 MTA employees in a jury of 12 is the NKI
Yep, and it looks like the Metro-North may be with out a bartender for the evening.
She “works in customer service for the MTA”
- there’s your answer
STFU OJ
Forget that. All PS children must be starving with Juror 4 a/k/a “Lunchlady” all sequestered up. Mind you, her regular job doesn’t seem to be getting in the way of her “stories.”
How hard can it be to buy out this jury?
How hard can it be to buy out this jury?
How hard can it be to buy out this jury?
How hard can it be to buy out this jury?
Shots shots shots for you EOPD.
Definitely more favorable for the govt. Most of these jurors are at or near retirement age and none of them seem like they are making the kind of salary where they have banked a ton of cash. So, there are definitely not cool with another Wall Street insider getting paid while their 401Ks and pensions fell down the toilet.
Hey Hamilton, have a holly jolly Christmas!
Did you read all of their job descriptions? Sounds like most of them are or will be on pensions. They dont know what the fuck a 401(k) is.
Are you kidding? Vague Star Trek II reference.
You must be a former Lehman Quant.
Are you kidding? Vague Star Trek II reference.
You must be a former Lehman Quant.
Yep. Raj is going to argue his “research” was going to increase the value of those pensions.
New Jersey Board of Education AKA MA in Fist pumping, BS in Male Skin Product with a Minor in Life
100% agree but don’t underestimate his lawyers – they are the best and have the money to figure this out running mock-trials. Raj prob found wealthier, pro-business, or conservative jurors were more anti-bank and less immigrant sympathetic. Theres a subset of what first appears to be prosecution friendly jurors they are looking for.
Judge: You’re on thin ice here, but do you get off the ice? Hell no, you jump up and down like a lunatic having a..a conniption fit. Now if it was up to me, you’d have been in chains an hour ago. But this is a trial by jury and it’s up to your peers…
The Monarch: Peers? PEERS?! How dare you! That repulsive display of humanity out there? NO WAY! A list of my peers would read as follows: Flying Squid and Tigeriffic; Truckules; Lord Mostly-Magic; King Fantastic Outfit; Fee Waybill of the Tubes; SuicideGirl Teagan; Bill “Superfoot” Wallace; Happy-Go-Clucky and Swiss Misstery; Chaka Igloo; and my 8th grade earth science teacher Mr. Tringe! Oh… and Bizarro Oscar Wilde as an alternate.
that’s a loose interpretation of the word “work”
50% of the jurors are government employees? His attorneys may as well have put Michael Moore on the jury, at least then he’d have the blubbering whale sympathy vote.
Did they compensate all these Jurors for their travel expenses back from the Wisconsin State Capital? All this jury needs is Elliot Spitzer as foreman.
Juror 2 could be a wild card. She left NYC to volunteer for the Israeli Defense Forces. I can her see frolicking topless on the beaches of Tel Aviv with her tanned Israeli boyfriend after Israel won the 67 war. The govt. never got serious on money laundering and securities fraud till the 80s. The Raj needs to let her know that a) she can keep an extra set of books for him any time and, b) He’s always down for some: cause puss is like wine – it just gets better with age.
I am surprised that the city is still opperational with all these civil servants on jury duty. For every 10 employed I bet only 1 actually works.
It’s harder than you think.
Jurors 1, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11 and 12 are essentially unemployed.
You obviously understood said obscurity.
You obviously understood said obscurity.
Mostly ‘main street’ jurors. He’s toast.
Mostly ‘main street’ jurors. He’s toast.
GPA (major only): 3.8
GPA (overall): 2.9
Did his lawyers pick people who would appeal to his lead, John Dowd, since they’ll have to be listening to him the most?
Did his lawyers pick people who would appeal to his lead, John Dowd, since they’ll have to be listening to him the most?
Did his lawyers pick people who would appeal to his lead, John Dowd, since they’ll have to be listening to him the most?
George Sr.: [Michael gets the witness list for the deposition] Who’s on the list? Any blabbers?
Michael: Just one, but he wont be talking unless there’s a hand inside of them.
Tobias: Oh please, even then, I wouldn’t say anything.
IT guys don’t get about Lloyd or who he is. All they care about it getting the rocks off on nerdy girls, porn and star trek/star wars.
True story!
They will step up, and lead other blind. It’s Biblical.
Stereotype much?