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"Deposed, not composed; Under oath, he swore, and swore"

"Deposed, not composed; Under oath, he swore, and swore": Today's edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer contains an article that begins, "Maybe a bar of soap would work better. A federal judge in Philadelphia has fined a foul-mouthed CEO and his lawyer $29,323 for making a 'spectacular failure' out of a court-related proceeding in what has become a most uncivil civil case. Over 12 hours on two days in the fall, Aaron Wider, a mortgage company owner from Long Island, N.Y., launched the F-bomb or some variation 73 times. Wider's expletive-spewing rants forced his deposition to a premature end, and shocked U.S. District Court Judge Eduardo Robreno, who later said he had never seen anything like it in his three decades in the legal profession. Now Wider's testimony has become an Internet hit with financial and legal bloggers who have dubbed it 'The Deposition From Heck.'"

The article provides access to video from the deposition.

Full post as published by How Appealing on April 06, 2008 (boomark / email).