> WSJ: How have you been dealing with this personally?
> Brown: There’s a lot of hidden stress. I ended up having a heart attack the week that I was notified [of the charges], and that’s one of the things that people have to understand: They may think they’re handling stress well, but they’re really not. Luckily, I’m fine, after a couple of stents and a short stay in the emergency room.
> When you go through something like this, you just have to get to the point where you say you’re OK with the worst thing that can happen. I wasn’t going to jail. A monetary penalty and then a bar from being a director and officer was the worst-case scenario, and if you can get past that, you can kind of deal with it a little better.
ungreased0675 · 9h ago
I don’t want to live in a society where the elites get rewarded 1000x more than normal people for success (CEO pay scales), but have zero responsibility for failure. That’s not sustainable.
> Brown: There’s a lot of hidden stress. I ended up having a heart attack the week that I was notified [of the charges], and that’s one of the things that people have to understand: They may think they’re handling stress well, but they’re really not. Luckily, I’m fine, after a couple of stents and a short stay in the emergency room.
> When you go through something like this, you just have to get to the point where you say you’re OK with the worst thing that can happen. I wasn’t going to jail. A monetary penalty and then a bar from being a director and officer was the worst-case scenario, and if you can get past that, you can kind of deal with it a little better.