Ex-HealthSouth Lawyer Testifies for Defense
From Associated Press
The former lead attorney for HealthSouth Corp. testified that he often wrote statements attributed to Richard Scrushy in financial statements, which the since-fired chief executive sometimes signed without seeing.
Bill Horton, who ran HealthSouth’s legal department during the years of a massive earnings overstatement, was called as a defense witness in Scrushy’s fraud trial in Birmingham, Ala., as Scrushy’s lawyers tried to distance him from company reports that contained bogus numbers.
