Unjust economy

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From a press release issued last year. At the time, Karen Bond was on probation after thirty-eight months in prison for defrauding two elderly sisters of $880,000. Walter Pavlo, who was released from prison in 2003, estimated his 2004 earnings for speaking engagements at approximately $175,000.

The ex-convict team of Walter "Walt" Pavlo and karen Bond are available for guest appearances and to provide quotes for print coverage.

In the past, prison was an unfamiliar experience to middle and upper class society. Audiences are curious about the prison experience and how someone with a white collar background copes. The media's glamourization of "white collar prisons" has fueled the public perception that it may be worth the risk of a soft prison sentence to gain a substantial amount of money. Two convicted white collar felons talk about the dire reprecussions of unethical and criminal white collar conduct.

Pavlo, who pled guilty to defrauding MCI of $6million, holds and MBA from Stetson. Bond, who pled guilty to one count of interstate securities fraud, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Marietta College and holds a law degree from Ohio State University College of Law. As a team, their lively, interactive style as trained media experts will have your audience wanting to hear more. Would you be interested in speaking with Walt and karen?

"Under an economy which rewards any unjustly, the true place for a just man is poverty." -- Thoreau, paraphrased.

To the extent that a society limits its government to policing functions which curb the individuals who engage in aggressive and criminal actions, and conducts its economic affairs on the basis of free and willing exchange, to that extent domestic peace prevails. When a society departs from this norm, its governing class begins, in effect, to make war upon the rest of the nation. A situation is created in which everyone is victimized by everyone else under the fiction of each living at the expense of all.

--Edmund A. Opitz