Take the money and run II

In yesterday’s contribution to blogitude, we lamented the poor state of modern robbery.

After reading the tale of woe of a certain Susan Stanford, we can add that the art of divorce isn’t what it used to be either.

Susan is the former wife of disgraced billionaire R. Allen Stanford, who is facing many years in a small room with iron bars for a $7 billion (!) Ponzi scheme.

Because of that little problem with the law, R. Allen Stanford is now so broke he needs a court-appointed attorney.

Serves him right — and the same goes for Susie. You see, she stopped living with R. Allen 15 years ago. For some reason, she never got around to divorcing him. It could be because he agreed to keep writing laarrrge checks each month from the proceeds of his, uh, business venture.

Anyhoo, now that R. Allen is a non-billionaire, Susan is mighty cheesed off. She realizes she should have taken the money and run when R. Allen still had money to take.

In fact, she is now suing her former divorce lawyer for not telling her about an alleged $200 million offer that R. Allen dangled a few years ago.

Frankly, they deserve each other. The news account says that before the feds looked at the books, R. Allen “lived in the Caribbean with a series of younger women with whom he has fathered several children.”

Now, of course, both of them have pretty much nothin’. I think that’s what English teachers call “poetic justice.”