The D-List: April Week 4

Goldman Sachs Execs - While they may have been acting within the law (may have been), they clearly are money grubbing, money above all else d-cases that appear to be ripped from the movie Wall Street. Greed.
http://money.cnn.com/2010/04/27/news/companies/goldman_sachs_hearing/index.htm?hpt=T1

Securities and Exchange Commission - As the 2008 financial crisis was developing, top Securities and Exchange Commission employees and contractors were using government computers on official time to view pornography, according to an SEC inspector general. Of those employees, 17 of the 33 employees were senior officials whose salaries ranged from $100,000 to $222,000.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/inspector-sec-staff-watched-porn-during-crisis-2010-04-23?reflink=MW_news_stmp
http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/breakdown-just-how-pervy-were-the-sec-porn-fiends/19454355

Tito Ortiz - for (allegedly) beating his (now) ex-girlfriend and former adult film star Jenna Jameson and then blaming the incident on Jameson because of her OxyCotin addiction. That being said, Jenna Jameson probably isn’t blameless in the whole situation and maybe there is some truth to her addiction….maybe they should both just be nominated.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2010/04/tito-ortiz-jenna-jameson-make-fight-public/1

USC Football (Pete Carroll) - for being found to violate NCAA rules for retaining a paid consultant to attend practices and watch games. Not so coincidentally, this comes after Pete Carroll skipped town for an NFL job in Seattle.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-coach-20100427,0,4256103.story

Jeff Ireland, Dolphins’ GM - for asking former Oklahoma State and now Dallas Cowboys’ wide receiver Dez Bryant during the pre-NFL draft interviews, if his mother was a prostitute. The point of the interviews is to ask provocative questions and see how the prospective players respond, but this is probably going a little far.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gameon/post/2010/04/should-nfl-executives-be-able-to-ask-inappropriate-questions/1

John Ortega, Colorado Sherriff’s Deputy - for using a taser on 30 high school students. Many of the students asked to be tased so they would know what it felt like, so naturally Ortega though there could be nothing wrong with such an experience. The school superintendent said she didn’t know the stun gun was being used and that it wasn’t an authorized activity.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/09/update-deputy-who-tasered_n_531354.html

Gordon Brown, current Prime Minister of Britain - The Labour leader was meeting voters in Rochdale when he encountered 66 year-old Gillian Duffy, who peppered him with questions about immigration, the national debt and tax in front of television cameras. Immediately afterwards, Brown got into his car and was driven away but was still wearing a microphone, allowing broadcasters to pick up his subsequent discussion with an aide. "That was a disaster," Brown said. "Should never have put me with that woman -- whose idea was that?" He added: "She was just a sort of bigoted woman." Duffy, a lifelong Labour supporter, said Brown's comments were "very upsetting". So yeah, he's a D-Case for his comments, for the fact that they were made about someone who is a supporter of his party, and most of all for not turning off his microphone and letting people hear them.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100428/wl_uk_afp/britainvote

Kei Kamara, soccer player - for incredible incompetence. Basically he has an unbelievably easy shot at an empty net for a goal, but he managed to screw it up and knock the ball into the goal with his hand, which caused it to be disallowed of course. It's hard to put this into words, you just need to watch the video to see how amazingly impossible it was for him to screw it up (and yet, he did).
http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/blog/sow_experts/post/The-latest-worst-miss-ever?urn=sow,236778