Tone Grant was a classmate of mine at Andover. I remember speaking to him in Oliver Wendall Holmes library as he was writing a paper. He was cordial. He was also starting varsity quaterback for Andover's football team. His hand and arm that wrote his paper was not what got him into Yale, but the same hand and arm that threw footballs so well were. Tone became an attorney, then served in Vietnam and was wounded. Later in life, he became president of Refco, at one time the largest independent futures trader in the U.S., where he owned roughly 50% of the company. Tone, along with others at Refco, was indicted, tried, and found guilty of defrauding investors of $2.4 billion and was sent to prison for 10 years. He died while in prison. To me, Tone's life was today's perfect example today of a Greek tragedy. Though he vehemently claimed his innocence, it seemed to me that $2.4 billion was a lot of money to explain away if one is charged and found guilty of defrauding investors. No human being is perfect, but Tone, in my opinion, should have thrown that pass out of bounds instead of having it intercepted by law enforcement.

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