Runners-up: politicians, businessmen, school teachers and others
Runners-up for top story of the month:
Ex-convict businessman Bo Stefan Eriksson, 44, who pleaded "no contest"to embezzling two exotic cars, a Ferrari and a Mercedes McLaren, and being a felon in possession of a handgun, facing a new trial just four days after a jury deadlocked 10 to 2 in favor of conviction. A few weeks before, he pleaded "no contest"to a DUI in the now infamous Malibu, California crash of a million-dollar Enzo Ferrari into a telephone pole in February. He previously turned down a plea deal that would have put him away for just over two years despite the fact that Judge Patricia M. Schnegg made it clear she felt it was a "very generous offer."The offer ...