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Pretty gross to be airing this dirty laundry in a public article.

We'll have to hear more from the restaurant critic about what he asked/didn't ask, and what the owner, Stanich, told or didn't tell him. But if it's the case that Stanich agreed to be profiled for an article about his shut-down burger bar, and he presented a whitewashed version of events, then it's not fair to his wife, who was a long time manager, whom he pleaded no contest to misdemeanor harassment and strangulation. The "dirty laundry" here is him beating his wife in front of their son, not something like him being an adulterer.

He chose to enter his story into the public.

Unfortunately, his version was a lie. Not a bad thing for someone to expose the truth.

That dirty laundry is public record, unfortunately.

A further reminder that just because something is technically public does not make it necessarily okay to broadcast it. We have a real problem in our modern world dealing with all the data out there and how it should be protected, or not. Used to be it didn't matter much because you'd have to go down to the courthouse to get detailed information. Now it's being data mined, collected, aggregated with 100s of other sources, and sold. Yuck.

Maybe there's a very good reason why crimes and our court systems are public? Such as, so that people who choke their wife who is dying from cancer can be avoided and shunned by moral, law abiding persons.

It may be public record, but significantly fewer people would have ever stumbled upon it had this article not been written.

Getting clicks take precedence over all things

Much more gross to have assaulted his ex-wife (choked her in front of their child), reneged on his divorce agreement, violated probation, etc.

> reneged on his divorce agreement

The divorce agreement called for $8k/month alimony. That's something like $150k per year out of his pre-tax income.

I don't know about Stanich's mental state and finances. But if I were forced by the courts to sign such an agreement, reneging and drinking myself to death within a year would look like an extremely tempting way out.

> if I were forced by the courts to sign such an agreement

That's not how settlement agreements work.

Maybe he shouldn't have choked his terminally ill wife.

Maybe he shouldn't have signed that agreement. In the US, legal agreements are voluntarily entered into, otherwise they are wholly invalid.

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