Jessica Pechtel, who with her husband owned 20 horses seized last summer in Springvale, embezzled nearly $600,000 from her former employer in New Hampshire.
Atrium Medical Corp. has inked a deal that will allow it to escape claims that it sold defective surgical mesh, and now those who say they were harmed by it are asking a New Hampshire federal judge to set up a settlement fund so the unspecified amount of money can start to be distributed.
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POLITICAL COMMENTARY
For those of you old enough to remember Joseph Heller’s 1961 novel Catch-22, it is a reminder that most things really are not new.
The ground-breaking dark comedy, although stylistically it was similar to two earlier Samuel Beckett novels, followed anti-hero Capt. John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Force B-25 bombardier, as he tried to process in different times and places the horrific death of a fellow officer.
The title of the book has taken on a meaning of its own, a paradoxical situation with no escape because of rules or limitations.
The situation is like the character Klinger in MASH who tries to feign mental illness to escape his military service only to be told he is not insane because he wants to get out of the Army.