WARNING. LEGAL GEEKERY AHEAD. IGNORE. IGNORE. IGNORE. OF NO INTEREST TO ANYBODY BUT ME.
THIS IS ALL MY MOM TALKS ABOUT OVER DINNER WHEN I'M HOME. I'm getting squiggy warm family flashbacks :D
There'd definitely be shenanigans with holding and shell companies named ludicrously funny things.
Oh, that's just a glorious thought. That Obie took advantage of one of the many tax-shelter, shell companies to use for the under-the-table weapons dealing shenanigans.
I know we've been working under the Obie-Killed-Howard assumption for awhile now, but I'm kind of digging the idea that it wasn't planned. That Obie didn't start off with the "Hey, I know a perfect solution to my problem...Murder!"
Because this:
Howard kicks the bucket; for two glorious years, Obediah is the successor trustee, but then, the lawyers give him a nasty shock when they explain that when Tony hits twenty-one, voting control transfers over to him.
The implication that maybe Obie sort of fell in love with total power then, and that working with Tony (who, lets face it, is two parts ridiculous to one part pathetically puppy-like when it comes to looking-up to his father) has got to be frustrating after having been the king for awhile. Here's this young, 21 year old upstart who never properly matured because, hello, a doctorate in his teens? Is still a doctorate, and even older people sort of break apart during that time, no telling how a kid with crazy hormones, strange hair growing in places he doesn't understand and no stable home-life to speak of, will come out. Certainly not with an ego that's easy to work with.
...which brings back our, like, SUPER EARLY conversation about how maybe Tony drove Obie slowly crazy and carried him straight to "Murder: for what ails you!" when no other legal/sane solution seemed possible.
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Re: second time through = golden. i'm thinking about going time #3.
Date: 2008-05-29 09:42 pm (UTC)THIS IS ALL MY MOM TALKS ABOUT OVER DINNER WHEN I'M HOME. I'm getting squiggy warm family flashbacks :D
There'd definitely be shenanigans with holding and shell companies named ludicrously funny things.
Oh, that's just a glorious thought. That Obie took advantage of one of the many tax-shelter, shell companies to use for the under-the-table weapons dealing shenanigans.
I know we've been working under the Obie-Killed-Howard assumption for awhile now, but I'm kind of digging the idea that it wasn't planned. That Obie didn't start off with the "Hey, I know a perfect solution to my problem...Murder!"
Because this:
Howard kicks the bucket; for two glorious years, Obediah is the successor trustee, but then, the lawyers give him a nasty shock when they explain that when Tony hits twenty-one, voting control transfers over to him.
The implication that maybe Obie sort of fell in love with total power then, and that working with Tony (who, lets face it, is two parts ridiculous to one part pathetically puppy-like when it comes to looking-up to his father) has got to be frustrating after having been the king for awhile. Here's this young, 21 year old upstart who never properly matured because, hello, a doctorate in his teens? Is still a doctorate, and even older people sort of break apart during that time, no telling how a kid with crazy hormones, strange hair growing in places he doesn't understand and no stable home-life to speak of, will come out. Certainly not with an ego that's easy to work with.
...which brings back our, like, SUPER EARLY conversation about how maybe Tony drove Obie slowly crazy and carried him straight to "Murder: for what ails you!" when no other legal/sane solution seemed possible.