Posted by Two_Sheds on June 28, 2008 at 1:26 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Well, this is a fine day when a peice of s*** crook like Big Al gets to have top-flight, FREE, health care, but MY honest, hard-working family neither qualifies for Medicaid nor can afford to pay for private health insurance. If we get sick....lotsa luck.

His interviews made me sick: I could not have felt more disgust if I had woken up with a roach in my mouth.

In any case, if they make him wear the orange jumpsuit in jail, he can attend the prison Halloween party as "The Great Pumpkin."

Posted by lillycollette on June 28, 2008 at 4:42 a.m. (Suggest removal)

I find it reassuring that Al Parish’s cloak of -- “public respectability” -- was stripped from him and he was brought to justice on his frauds.

One’s high position and social status is never a mitigating factor in fraud—if anything it makes their fraud even more heinous.

Now that this damnable fraud (Parish) is safely tucked away where he righteously belongs perhaps we can move on to cleaning up another viper’s nest of frauds slithering around the Charleston County Family Court.

YA THINK?

Posted by Neponset on June 28, 2008 at 7:17 a.m. (Suggest removal)

340 pounds and major health issues. This would be a good time to put Big Al on a diet and a carefully controlled exercise program. I suggest the low country vegetarian diet (ie peas and rice (brown of course) and field greens (low salt, no seasoning meat and no sugar). Start at 1100 cal per day and adjust down if the lard does not come off. Beverage - branch water. This would be a win win deal for the prison folks, since it is cheap and may minimize health care costs.

Posted by jammer on June 28, 2008 at 7:27 a.m. (Suggest removal)

he'll sue the county for a lack of access to snickers bars and ice cream...

who cares... I haven't bothered to read any of the articles except the very first one on this leach, this isn't news and he certainly doesn't deserve this attention

lock him away and throw the key away, and drop the articles on him so he can go the way of the dodo bird

I feel bad for all the people he stiffed but even I wouldn't have trusted someone so blindly with my money like all these people and the school did... hopefully those ignorant people that are supposed to be so educated are a little smarter and wiser now

Posted by granny2 on June 28, 2008 at 7:47 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Two_Sheds I agree, it is not right when all these crooks (not only Big AL) get free dental & health care (with our tax money)and the people working can not afford dental and insurance coverage. I guess that is why so many don't mind going to prison (free everything). Damn I believe they have it better than the working class people do. Dont' have to worry about housing, food, gas,Dr. bills,begining to sound better all the time.

Posted by draftdot on June 28, 2008 at 8:16 a.m. (Suggest removal)

I've heard Thomas "Snowman" Ravenel is looking for a room-mate...

Posted by katrenavantassle on June 28, 2008 at 8:34 a.m. (Suggest removal)

I will keep working and pay for my own insurance any day then to go to prison where you are subjected to constant threats and at any second your life can be taken by another inmate. I seriously doubt that Mr. Parrish will get to "PICK" his prison. And his health is due mainly to his obesity which happens alot to people who get rich. GLUTENY is one of the 7 major sins. Remember that SC Prisons are so overcrowded and the prison inmate to guard ratio is totally out of wack so that just like what happened to James Belli at Leiber, it can happen to anyone. It is my opinion that the SC Judicial System needs to quit locking up people that are committing non-violent and less serious drug related crimes and make more room for the violent and real sicko's. And if anyone commits a crime against a child under 12 they should get life in prision without the possiblity of any parole!!! The death penalty would be too easy on them and this way they will have a long time to spend with "Big Bubba".

Posted by gamecockwoman on June 28, 2008 at 8:50 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Scared he's going to hurt himself? How, gorging on ice cream? This lard butt should be on the chain gang with nothing but bread and water - you'd see that weight come down and those "health problems" go away. Funny, we never heard about all these problems when he was dressing like Bozo, cruising around in his purple jag, and living it up in his many homes. His sleazy lawyer should be in the cell with him for insulting the public's intelligence with this "defense", as well as that bogus Amnesia crap. It doesn't look like he ever forgot where the Snickers Bars were. Give me a break! Put them both in jail and when the squealing begins, just turn up the banjo music....

Posted by i1455 on June 28, 2008 at 9:40 a.m. (Suggest removal)

They should put him and Andy Savage in a prison with no way out.

Posted by Rooster07 on June 28, 2008 at 9:40 a.m. (Suggest removal)

The headline of this article pretty much sums up our judicial system....'sent to jail..for now.' He'll be out in less than 2 years guaranteed. What a joke!

Posted by JC on June 28, 2008 at 10:05 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Too bad the tax payers will have to pay for his healthcare - he obviously ate up a good portion of that 66 million :)

Posted by KnowAllSeeAll on June 28, 2008 at 10:30 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Dang, and he even gets to pick where he wants to go (that is, the article is leading us to believe that...but then, consider the source).

I got a better one than "Great Pumpkin." Make him wear a big red shirt and watch all the kids on the block shout, "Kool Aid!!"

Posted by KnowAllSeeAll on June 28, 2008 at 10:33 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Andy, I have always had a tremendous amount of respect for you for what you've been able to do. No lawyer in this area can outwork Andy Savage when it comes to criminal defense. However, you blew it big time with this case. I don't feel sorry for Mr. Parish (and please, as soon as the BOP gets around to it, let's start referring to him by his inmate number) and for you to garner any sympathy for him or try any redirection in effort to call that justice sinks you to the levels of the gutter trash that's about to set up shop on Liberty Street. 'Tis but one man's opinion, take it for what it's worth.

Posted by drp7773 on June 28, 2008 at 10:41 a.m. (Suggest removal)

You can bet this scum bum will be in the LOW SECURITY Prison area, he will be with the other white collar crime prisoners, in others words protected and compared to others in the general populations he will have it quite good. Especially with medical conditions and some of his and Andy's statements how bad of shape and health concerns. He will have to see a nurse daily be fed certain foods They are allowed to come and go almost at will. And with good behavior and his medical condition he will be in a year or 2. And like I said I really doubt all that money is gone so when he gets out he will bolt this area as soon as his probation is up and have a good life. Great judicial system huh..66 million dollars and he will serve less time then Martha Stewart.............

Posted by gamecockwoman on June 28, 2008 at 11:21 a.m. (Suggest removal)

NO respect for Andy Savage who gets richer off these rich white collar criminals while using such bilge as a "defense". If this were joe sixpack who stole $100 from somebody, he'd be under the jailhouse. Fat Al had to pay through the nose with some of those hidden assets to get Savage on the job, believe me!

Posted by droy on June 28, 2008 at 12:01 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I can't believe that after all that he has done to those people, the courts in their infinate wisdom have the nerve to give Jaba the Hut a choice on what resort he would like to go to for his punishment. He is getting medical, dental and a free shrink too? You have to be kidding me? There are children here in the low counrty, who's parents work hard and can't afford insurance, much less gas now these days. I say, since he stole the money just give him the 4 basic food groups (sandwhich, 2 % milk and a fruit) for his meals. Now, for repaying back the tax payers money he will be spending again (being in jail), make him pick up trash (exercise program ...for his health part)on the side of the road. Losing weight would get him healhier. Now, for his mental state, church would be a good start.

Posted by wonderdog on June 28, 2008 at 12:24 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I have no sympathy for him either. He robbed people blind - he just didn't use a gun. He has had such a negative impact on the lives of SO many people, and his only concern is himself. I find it hard to believe his wife is completely innocent - she had to know something was going on if she has half a brain.

Good ideas, droy.

Posted by gamecockwoman on June 28, 2008 at 12:34 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Droy and Wonderdog are right! Of COURSE the wife knew it all - unless she developed amnesia by osmosis.....She was serving on hi faluting boards all over town, etc. By the way, they kept their kids in an expensive private school and still own property - believe me, there are assets hidden out there. I say the basic 4 for meals and daily church study is just what this obnoxious criminal deserves. He should also have a public defender and let that $$ he's heaping on Savage be divided among his elderly victims.

Posted by JohnS on June 28, 2008 at 1:26 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Prison will whip him into shape. Six hours a day picking up trash will cure most of his health problems.

Posted by GarveysGhost on June 28, 2008 at 1:28 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Ah yes, some good ole timey religion should sort him out, except, I bet if I bothered to dig around for a few minutes, I would find that he belonged to a church around these parts, heck, he worked for the old baptist college...

"Mankind will not be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest" (or cleric,rabbi,minster, vicker, flying spaghetti monster)

W's church going morals haven't stopped him from commiting war crimes...

Let the flames begin lowcountry, "Paul Pierce" has arrived!

Posted by SuzieQJones on June 28, 2008 at 1:38 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Yolanda Yoder has a masters degree in computer science, she is no dummy. She must have known the money was coming from some place other than a professors salary. Of course, she was so busy spending money, supervising housekeepers & nannys, and going on fancy trips that she didn't have time to actually THINK ABOUT WHERE THE MONEY WAS COMING FROM (or to even ask). I overheard someone say that the reason she was not at Mr. Parish's sentencing was that she was in North Carolina looking for a house. Gee, do you think they already know where he will be sent to? Could it be in North Carolina? Hmmm..

Posted by wonderdog on June 28, 2008 at 1:43 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I have no idea who "Paul Pierce" is or if I should be impressed. I don't care where Parish worked. He is worse than a common street thug - at least with an armed thug, what you see is what you get. Parish didn't embrace Christian principles - he simply used them as a front for his criminal activities.

Posted by GarveysGhost on June 28, 2008 at 2:31 p.m. (Suggest removal)

wonderdog-

Pierce is an athlete who's nick name is the "truth", and your right not to be impressed, it was just a silly statement on my part.

I couldn't agree with you more about him not embracing christian values though...I always wonder about those who worship money so because as I believe the good book says... "it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter into heaven" or how about "treat me as you would treat the lowest among us".

I'm sure I messed those two quotes up a little and I appologize, but the point is too many people in this country run to the church for all thier morals, but they aren't really reading and understanding what the bible really means, they are listening to a current human's interpratation of what is in essence, an ancient text (with a hell of a lot of revision to fit whoever was interpreting it, ie King James Version) of stories and parrabels ment to be a guide book for being a good human.

I personally subsrcibe to no particular religous dogma, but I belong to a great church right downtown, I can stand up and say all I have said in these posts and would not be kicked out, hell I would be appluaded by half the congregation. I see god in everything and everyone, which is were he resides, in the holy places of our hearts.

As Governer Sanford said when he vetoed that horrible license plate bill that will cost the taxpayers millions of dollars defending against Herb and ACLU's quite justifed attacks, "your vanity tag ain't gonna get you in heaven, it's how you live your life" (that was actually a paraphrase I belive, but check it out in last weeks Newsweek magazine).

Posted by wonderdog on June 28, 2008 at 2:54 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Thanks for clarifying that, GarveysGhost. I attend church as well, and we are encouraged to educate ourselves and think for ourselves. Faith is a very personal issue, and many criminals like Parish and child molesters present themselves as Christians to use churches to gain access to their victims and then to gain their trust, just as many pedophiles use the teaching profession. I hope Parish has a lot of time to think about his crimes during his imprisonment, but I think he will probably spend that time feeling sorry for himself instead.

Posted by Mayor on June 28, 2008 at 5:44 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I don't know what they serve there, but that should kill him. Do you think he took up an enormous amount of space?

I know he can't sleep on his stomach.

Posted by auger on June 28, 2008 at 7:25 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Regarding his prison diet. I say, feed him what he is use to eating. He will be dead within two years. Make him healthier with a sensible diet & exercise, his medical bills could bleed us for most of his sentence.

Posted by abitskeptical on June 28, 2008 at 9:04 p.m. (Suggest removal)

He will have to serve at least 85% of his sentence...so he will be spending over 20 years in federal prison...

I think he should be made to do some sort of "work release" for those 20 years & fork over money to help repay what he stole..it would be a drop in the bucket, but he needs to take part in reparations.

All federal prisoners "supposedly" get medical, dental(mostly emergency) & psych care....so he is not getting anything more "special" than the other prisoners

The "country club federal prison" is a myth. Even in minimum security they do not get to come & go as they please.

Posted by gamecockwoman on June 29, 2008 at 10:16 a.m. (Suggest removal)

With all due respect to abitskeptical - I have worked for the Dept of Justice. Federal Prison Camps are like college dorms. The inmates have a very comfortable room, no bars, and roam the campus (that's exactly what it's called, a campus) as they please. They dress in civilian attire and have a leisurely life. No license plate factories there, believe me. These places are where all high profile political and white collar types go as they are not considered risks like the drug king pins. See this article from Forbes.com

The days of "Club Fed"--think golf courses and lobster bakes--are long gone. But minimum security facilities, known as federal prison camps, are the best suited for disgraced CEOs and other white-collar criminals. In theory, inmates in these camps show no risk of violence or escape. Both shoe-mogul Steven Madden and Martha Stewart are FPC alums.

Why are prison camps the way to go, if you must go at all? Among other perks, federal prison camps have a relatively low staff-to-inmate ratio, dormitory-style accommodations and little to no fencing. In fact, inmates could walk away from these camps. Few do, however, because recaptured inmates face severe consequences.

While some of the minimum security facilities still stand on their own, it is increasingly common to have camps lie adjacent to larger and more secure institutions, particularly low-security federal correctional institutions.

"It used to be that those freestanding facilities were considered to be more relaxed," says David Novak, a former Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) consultant who served time in a federal prison camp for mail fraud. "The differences now really come down to convenience for family, weather and things of that nature."

Ellis says the quality of life among staff members also can make one prison more pleasant than another. "Happier staff makes for happier inmates," he says.