So, uh, anybody been keeping up with the story of Ed Kramer, the Dragon*Con co-founder who's spent the past 13 years stalling a trial on child molestation charges?
An article from last September in
Atlanta Magazine has a pretty thorough breakdown of everything that's happened -- the original charges, the variety of ways Kramer managed to wear down authorities until they let him go from jail and put him under house arrest, and then let him out once a week, and eventually agreed to take off his ankle bracelet -- and how he eventually got caught violating his parole following a 16-year-old boy around in Connecticut in 2009. He spent the ensuing three years fighting to keep from being extradited back to Georgia, but as of
last week he's finally back in a Georgia jail and will hopefully actually get tried now.
As for how he's been able to play this game for so long: part of it is that he's got some legitimate and serious health problems (and possibly some less legitimate and serious ones that he's exaggerated, too), and part of it is that he's still got plenty of money coming in from Dragon*Con (he's still a 34% owner). So uh you might want to share that if you know anybody who wants to go to Dragon*Con.
Added bonus distant-second-most-disgusting-human-being-in-this-story dept: while most of his defense attorneys have abandoned him, he's still being defended by Bob Barr. Yes the former Georgia Congressman, yes one of the leaders of the Clinton impeachment proceedings, yes the fundamentalist who decided he was a Libertarian once that became a more profitable thing for him to be, yes a truly conscienceless, opportunistic hypocrite.
