Under Watch: sportscaster Lapmley, GE Treasurer Jung and Geneticist Wm. French Anderson
Under watch:
Sports announcer Jim Lampley, 57, arrested on suspicion of domestic violence, violating a restraining order and dissuading a witness, after an altercation between him and Miss California USA 2003, Candice Sanders, 28. Sanders claimed she received injuries to her head, neck and back from being thrown against the walls and a door of her Encinitas, CA apartment on New Year’s Eve. She also alleged that Lampley drank and smoked marijuana before attacking her. The restraining order apparently resulted from an incident two months before in which she claimed he threw her onto the floor of a New York restaurant. Linda Lee, the first of Lampley’s three former wives, said Lampley isn’t capable of striking anything, much less a woman. The question is not whether there is at least one addict; rather, the question is, which one”or both? The answer will shed light on whether Lampley is capable of such violence, Sanders is capable of making false accusations, or both.
Former treasurer of GE’s NBC Universal unit Victor Jung, arrested on charges of stealing more than $800,000 from the company and using the proceeds for lavish private spending sprees. Jung’s job included overseeing the company’s bank accounts and providing financial reports to GE. He allegedly wired money to a company he secretly set up, NBCU Media Productions, the name for which bears a close resemblance to that of an actual NBC subsidiary, NBC Media Productions. According to the indictment, the money was quickly used to fly friends and “companions”in private jets to such destinations as Antigua and the Turks and Caicos Islands, while enjoying Veuve Clicquot champagne, Grey Goose vodka and Mondavi wine while enroute. Another $56,000 was allegedly used for a Southampton, N.Y. summer rental and $87,000 to pay off an American Express bill. I must admit, alcoholics do have more fun”for a while.
World-renowned geneticist William French Anderson, 70, sentenced to 14 years in prison for molesting his assistant’s daughter for four years, beginning when she was 10. Judge Michael E. Pastor explained that Anderson lured the insecure and trusting immigrant and because of his “intellectual arrogance, he…got away with as much as he could.”Anderson was Time magazine’s runner-up for Man of the Year in 1995 for his work in genetics. He was charged after the girl wore a wire and confronted him about the sexual abuse that occurred after he began teaching her tae kwon do. Anderson told the girl, “I just did it, just something in me was just evil.”Or perhaps, it was a lower brain center unrestrained by a neo-cortex damaged due to decades of alcohol and other-drug addiction.