sentenced to prison by the way though he did plead guilty to securities fraud plus the securities and exchange commission argued that kozlowski's aggressive accounting methods once seen as a positive for tyco had inflated their profits in NUMBER_TOKEN taiko finally settled with their investors agreeing to pay them half of whatever they could obtain from kozlowski schwartz and walsh as well as a NUMBER_TOKEN billion dollars to those who bought their securities from december NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN up until june NUMBER_TOKENth NUMBER_TOKEN. a few years later taiko seemed to get back on their feet again after becoming the face of corporate excess and greed for a time they split into three companies adt for residential security another branch for flow control products and services and a third for fire and commercial security businesses yet years later another certain someone seemed to get back on their feet again too kozlowski after serving only six and a half years in prison he was released in NUMBER_TOKEN and in NUMBER_TOKEN was a merger and acquisition specialist for fort lauderdale-based harborside advisors a company his wife owns kozlowski also said in his website biography that he parted ways with taiko in NUMBER_TOKEN which is a really interesting way of saying he was accused of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from them if you ask me kozlowski added that he takes responsibility for the problems that were created and the damage that was done while also stating that he only attracted the attention of prosecutors because he did a lot of business with a handshake or phone call as opposed to written down and by the book methods kozlowski also noted that his sentence was longer than mass murderers and said quote once you go through the public humiliation a year in jail is as punishable as eight years of jail because you're not going back to your life end quote and i find the last sentence especially infuriating for me him saying he can't go back to his life kozlowski was working as a merger and acquisition specialist in florida at a company owned by his own wife kimberly has a management role and investment in vertex systems a NUMBER_TOKEN million dollar revenue company and she's the chairwoman of the board of URL_TOKEN a NUMBER_TOKEN million dollar pharmaceutical company kozlowski may not be buying NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN shower curtains anymore a NUMBER_TOKEN new york times article painted him and his wife as a relatively average couple still by kozlowski's own admission he's not recognized much anymore considering the crimes he's been convicted of he has managed to do fairly well for himself post-prison however there are those that believe that kozlowski isn't as guilty as prosecutors portrayed though this is the story you've probably heard of taiko thus far another theory has emerged that kozlowski was actually framed recently in a NUMBER_TOKEN nantucket magazine article kozlowski has started telling his own side of the story writer of the fall and rise of dennis kozlowski article wrote that district attorney robert morgenthau was up for re-election and determined to make an example out of kozlowski and contended that kozlowski had already been convicted in the court of
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