It’s always the quiet ones.
To neighbors, Sylvia Hofstetter was a wealthy businesswoman and grandmother who threw extravagant pool parties and went all out to decorate her upscale suburban home on Christmas and Halloween.
That image was shattered when FBI agents raided the health care administrator’s Knoxville home in March. Federal prosecutors say the 51-year-old Florida native was running the largest illicit drug operation in the history of east Tennessee: a string of pill mills that raked in $17.5 million in four years.
…Well, OK, ‘extravagant pool party’ isn’t really something that’s quiet, but you know what I mean. Go read the full article for the rest of the juicy details; I suspect that there’s a scriptwriter or two already assigned to this one. As it should be: there aren’t enough juicy roles for older women in Hollywood, and this could make for killer box office. Gold, Jerry! Gold!
Via Drudge.
Moe Lane
PS: No, not Florida, remember? This happened in Tennessee, actually. The illicit pill business was in Florida, but it was pushed out.
*in the saddest voice he can muster* If it involves pill abuse, it involves Florida in some way.
OT: Today was the clean-up of the banks of the Grand River and the Red Cedar River in Lansing/East Lansing. Adopt-A-River.
So I was at the children’s science museum – Impression 5 – with the pollution and invasive species stuff. Tens of little kids and their parents went by, and I handed out the stickers and coloring books, and showed the samples (in plastic blocks) of the bad species such as sea lamprey.
A good four hours very well spent.*
*Especially since I was near where they had the exhibit on “How does a trebuchet work” and “How does an air cannon work” and I thought (as I played with those things) “Why couldn’t high school physics have this is part of the course?”**
**Swap ‘talking about invasive species’ with ‘playing with a miniature trebuchet’ to understand what ‘well spent’ means.
the last thing you want to do in school is make the subject interesting and fun. that might lead to thinking, which is the last thing you want the serfs to do. and that goes triple for the different kinds of schools… charter, online, whatever. we need the factory model schools, just like we need factory farms.
Bah! Hums**t!
Let’s see how this actually works! You sit here, and you sit here, and you sit here – that’s how they sat on a trireme; now, do exactly what I say and we’ll get to ramming speed!
OT Again: The little kids (5-11) are the most fun. They’re sponges and they want to know and as an adult I can have an ersatz-childhood while trying to explain things to them. There is so much wonder and amazement there that all one needs to do is catch hold on the edge of the carpet to be whisked along on the ride.
Like I said – it is fun and so are they. To them you Are The Wizard and all you had to do was pay attention in junior high/middle school science to become The Wizard.
You don’t even have to try too hard.
Those air-water rocket toys are still out there. Now that is fun.
Oh, yeah, the topic….
Advice* is to stay quiet and humble and amass your fortune, moving it out of jurisdiction, before moving yourself. Never go flamboyant unless in Rio during Carnival. And even then, stay ‘middle of the road’. For Rio. During Carnival. When in Rio. During Carnival.
*Not that I would now anything about sheltering illicit gains or places to go so that said illicit gains could be fully enjoyed – nope, not me; not at all.
PS: If you are going to go somewhere then pick a place that has a tiff with Uncle Sam, but not such a place that a new trade treaty will ‘turn those frowns upside down’.
If you dig what I’m delving at. (Unfortunately, after the fall of the Soviet Union, that leaves you with either China or North Korea – even Cuba is getting sucked in – and hot pepper sauerkraut does get old.)