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Harvard couple who paid housekeeper $4 a week for more than 13 YEARS are spared jail
2014-01-13
Posted by:Bright Pebbles

#8  Does it not seem excessively lenient? I wonder why?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2014-01-13 14:05  

#7  Pappy is right about an "odd" place, but, there is a nice golf course there. ;^)
Posted by: AlanC   2014-01-13 12:27  

#6  Harvard (the town) has always been an odd place. And to work off Airandee's post, I suspect connections did have something to do with the agreement.
Posted by: Pappy   2014-01-13 10:31  

#5  Probably figured they were exempt from having to pay the piper.
Posted by: gorb   2014-01-13 10:12  

#4  AlanC, why'd you ruin a perfectly good meme with facts?!?
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2014-01-13 09:24  

#3  Two misleading things for this article:

1) Harvard, in this case, is a town ~45 miles west of Boston. Therefore NOT the university of the same name.

2) Though the article says Boston, as I pointed out, it's not Boston by a fair piece.

Posted by: AlanC   2014-01-13 07:22  

#2  They did not get jail time because even the housekeeper voted democrat.
Posted by: Airandee   2014-01-13 06:46  

#1  Blue State politicians and privileged academia have long been morally exempt from the well established norms of selective emancipation. The pair undoubtedly assumed they were in full and lawful compliance. In the South, we've long since learned to pick our own cotton.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-01-13 04:30  

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