For instance, there was the time Sheldon Silver won the William M. Bulger Excellence in State Leadership Award. Silver, Bulger, Silver, Bulger … double-barreled … er … Excellence! Two fine gentlemen, the two fine civil servants… and in the case of Bulger an academic servant too! The world’s most incurious university president!
And one of them got a civic leadership award from the other one.
That was a beautiful convergence.
Here’s another one: Green, Milken.
Bernard Madoff’s … associate, Yair Green, is currently being sued by Irving Picard for all that money he got from Bernie and gave to the university that made him chair of its Executive Committee.
Several years ago, Green gave a paper at a conference sponsored by one of America’s most famous financial criminals, Michael Milken.
So Green, Milken… Another great convergence.