A federal judge in Atlanta has turned to Shakespeare’s “King Lear” in denying a motion to set aside a sentence brought by the ringleader of the largest mortgage fraud scheme ever prosecuted in Georgia.
Obviously referring to Phillip Hill Sr.’s claim that bad advice from his lawyer led him to reject a 12-year plea deal, only to end up with a 28-year sentence, U.S. District Judge Thomas Thrash Jr. led off his Jan. 16 court order with a hat tip to the Bard: “This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on.”
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