A colleague of mine that I've known for over 20 years and worked with for most of those years, is a man of impeccable integrity and common sense. But his father -- that's another story. He ended up convicted of fraud a few years back and I know it was deeply humiliating to my friend. It also made my friend's employer regard him as at least potentially guilty by association ... he was blocked twice for promotions and finally left for someplace that doesn't tie him to his father's notoriety.

A good friend of mine was a brother of a woman famous for murdering her ex husband and his new wife in their bed (a couple of TV movies were made years ago about it). That really messed with his head too. He visits her once a year in prison (she's a lifer, and no parole because she's always adamantly maintained she's glad she did it). He told me it makes him overcompensate ... he feels he owed his parents a squeaky clean life to make up for all the humiliation and heartache his sister caused the family.

So yeah ... notorious family members pull everyone down with them.

I recall that texts came out between the two Manafort sisters where one of them (probably the one in this article) was telling her sister, get real, he has ordered people killed in the course of his work for Ukraine. What does it do to you to know that your parent is a killer? Yech.

@mordant Was that woman named Betty (Something?) Sounds familiar.

@LucyLoohoo Yeah, out of respect for his privacy I don't want to say more than that publicly though.

@mordant Gotcha! I remember that case.