HRBlunders.com » imprisoned http://www.hrblunders.com The worst mistakes, catastrophes, and near-misses Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:18:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc E-mail blunder: Innocent employee goes to jail http://www.hrblunders.com/e-mail-blunder-innocent-employee-goes-to-jail/ http://www.hrblunders.com/e-mail-blunder-innocent-employee-goes-to-jail/#comments Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:00:46 +0000 Fred Hosier http://www.hrblunders.com/?p=818 New York City will pay a settlement to a former private school librarian who was wrongly imprisoned for 30 hours because of an e-mail mix-up where he worked.

The city will pay William Hallowell $25,000 after he was wrongly arrested because a prankster with an e-mail address similar to his sent lewd messages to his boss over the Internet, a judge has ruled.

After he was arrested, police refused to believe he hadn’t harassed the head librarian at Riverdale Country School.

The e-mail the head librarian received said, “We could do it in the library. I could spank you with a vintage [copy] of Finnegan’s Wake.”

There was also a mention of a gun, so cops hauled in Hallowell.

“I’m really glad everyone officially knows the truth,” Hallowell said. “It’s really good to have the chapter, or really novel, end.”

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