Billionaire (repuke donor) Accused of Molesting Stepdaughter

[KamaAina]

On today's edition of Republicans Behaving Badly, we head to America's Dairyland to catch up with S.C. Johnson III, of the staunchly Walker-supporting Johnson clan...

http://www9.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20110325/curtis.johnson.accused/

A billionaire executive whose family has run SC Johnson for five generations was charged Thursday with having sexual contact with a now 15-year-old girl over the course of several years.

Samuel Curtis Johnson III, who goes by Curt, faces a count of repeated sexual assault of a child. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 40 years in prison and a $100,000 fine.

Johnson, 55, is the former chairman of Sturtevant-based Diversey Inc., a cleaning-products company that was spun off from SC Johnson in the late 1990s. Privately held SC Johnson makes household products including Pledge, Glade, Windex and Ziploc.

Johnson resigned from Diversey’s board in February and was taking a leave of absence for personal reasons, the company said at the time.

note: his repukeness has been verified with Newsmeat.

This episode of Republicans Behaving Badly has been brought to you by S.C. Johnson, a family company. :evilgrin:

[Kennah]

1. $100,000 fine, adjusted for income, is like 2 cents for you and me

[Jackpine Radical]

12. Where did you get that information?

A fine for 1st degree sexual assault? I didn't know that was in the Wisconsin penal code.

[shanti]

17. what are the odds

that he gets the fine and no prison?

[gratuitous]

2. Next up from the Boehner-led House

The "It's Okay to Have Sex with Your Underage Step-Daughter Act of 2011." And no, it's not due to any particular incident, indictment, allegation, or anything else, so stop saying that. This is simply a cause that Republicans suddenly deeply believe in. Like unilaterally breaking contracts with public employees. Besides, they ran on this very issue. It's your fault you didn't understand that when you all voted in the GOP in 2010.

[LiberalLoner]

15. I actually do believe that the GOPers will eventually make

kiddie porn and sexual abuse of children and rape of grown women legal. I see signs of it in how many stories I have heard over the years of conservatives abusing their own children or other children, and how many Republicans (like Sarah Palin) make women pay for their own rape kits. Maybe I'm overly pessimistic due to what I've experienced in my life, but I swear I really do believe these things will come to pass in Amerikkka as the conservatives become the dictators and democracy is abolished (even more than it already has been, I mean.)

[malaise]

3. Get thee to the greatest

More good news from the RETHUG party of family values.

[buddysmellgood]

4. wonder if he'll be a registered sex offender.

[howaboutme]

5. Jeffrey Epstein was another pea in the same billionaire pod

who was given a relative pass and served a 13 month out of 18 month sentence

Why aren't these billionaires being charged and sentenced as sexual offenders like average serfs? This is not a D or R thing. It makes no difference on politics. The scum sinks to the bottom and key to being able to get away with it is having billions. The double standard for the rich is what needs to be exposed.

On June 18, 2010 Epstein's former butler Alfredo Rodriguez was sentenced to 18 months in jail just for trying to sell a journal that recorded Epstein's activities. Epstein walked for having underage sex.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-pedophile-hedge-fund-mogul-jeffrey-epstein-got-off-so-easy-2011-3

[Maru Kitteh]

6. Taught from birth to be entitled to take at will, and rules are for suckers and poor people.

I hope the girl is protected through this. What a nightmare for her.

[SolutionisSolidarity]

7. Oh, great. SC Johnson is owned by conservative billionaires too?

You can't buy anything without indirectly contributing to the Republican Party these days.

[niyad]

9. welcome to DU

it is getting harder and harder to avoid subsidizing these corporate bloodsuckers

[bluestate10]

10. One product brand that I am increasingly buying is Full Circle.

The company that markets the products under the Full Circle brand appears to be attuned to delivering products that have a small environmental footprint. There are choices out and about, look around. I have been a purchaser of SC Johnson products, not any more.

[Kingofalldems]

8. I will lay odds he will do little or no jail time

if found guilty.

[niyad]

11. fisk johnson should be so proud on his commercials, telling us how wonderful this family-owned

company

[hunter]

13. The Johnson family is at it again...

Edited to add, Ah, different Johnsons...

FAMILY FORTUNE: TANGLED TALE
By BARBARA LOVENHEIM
Published: June 21, 1987

WHEN Barbara Goldsmith, a writer with a keen interest in social issues, published ''Johnson v. Johnson'' last February, she brought out into the open the tangled family contretemps and high-stakes trial over the will of J. Seward Johnson, heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune.

...

During a year of interviewing, the Johnson children told her a number of unsettling stories: Mary Lea Johnson was a victim of incest and an attempted murder plot by the homosexual lover of her second husband; Seward Johnson Jr. tried suicide at one point; Seward Johnson Sr. had a passion for young women, and he fell in love with the 14-year-old sister of his second wife when he was 42.

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/21/nyregion/family-fortune-tangled-tale.html?scp=7&sq=mary%20lea%20johnson&st=cse&pagewanted=1

Or the death of Casey Johnson at age 30...

On edit: an interesting coincidence bites the dust.

[jberryhill]

14. It's okay. This guy was clearly confused about his own Johnson too /nt

[lonestarnot]

16. Pledge Glade Windex and Ziploc.

Creepy freak.

[Auntie Bush]

18. Me thinks he's a typical RePuke. nt

[intaglio]

19. This reminds me of the non-joke, "The Aristocrats" n/t