Note: This story has been updated to correct the name and title of former Gallo associate general counsel Jolene Yee.
Tears streamed down the cheeks of Mark Belnick, the former general counsel of Tyco International, as he described to Stanford University students what it was like to leave a successful private practice, become a GC for the first time, and then find himself caught up in a major accounting scandal. The emotional moment came as Belnick recalled the pressure when both his lawyer and his wife tried to persuade him to plead guilty to a misdemeanor in order to escape felony charges and a possible 25-year prison sentence. He refused the deal and was vindicated in July 2004, when a jury found him not guilty.
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