Greed is not good.
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Defining ‘up’ down to earth
Another strange thing about living in affluent ‘burbs: You can be a crook, live in a McMansion, spend like a lunatic and still have the neighbors think you’re just an average guy.

No one answered the door Friday evening at the Carters' new brown brick house, its plantation shutters closed. But visible through huge glass windows above the front door were several large abstract oil paintings hanging on a wall.
The couple's next-door neighbor on Ridge Road, Heidi Denzel, 41, said she was shocked at the charges against the Carters, whom she described as down-to-earth.
"It's not like they lived `Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,'" she said of the couple, both of whom have children from previous marriages.
The Carters hadn't thrown lavish parties and didn't even have a cleaning lady, though they expressed interest in Denzel's house, if she ever sold, as a residence for their children, Denzel said.
The FBI found more than $50,000 in cash in the Carters' house during a search in 2002, according to court records.
The charges alleged the couple lived opulently. They allegedly used stolen funds to buy three luxury autos--a 1962 Corvette convertible, a 2001 Audi TT convertible roadster and a 1995 Ferrari F512M.
They bought an oil painting in an Aspen, Colo., gallery for more than $36,000, decorated their home with a Bosendorfer grand piano and a projection TV system and bought high-end Patek Philippe watches and diamond jewelry, according to court records.

And then there's the "oh s**t" moment when I see the headline and hope that it is no one that I know. And fighting the temptation, as I wait for the article to download, to hope that if it is someone I know, that it is someone I do not particularly care for. It's a little early to set schadenfreude as the tone of the day.