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Poor guy, no life deserves this ending. He got caught up deeper and deeper in his proclamations, painted himself into a corner, and wasn't able to reset.

Does anyone know of a case where someone went through a reset and came out strong after such a "downfall"?

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One in the White House ? Coming out stronger, that is. No reset.

A more serious example

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Cummines

Woah. Never heard of him but that's a hell of a ride through life. Adding I Am Not a Gangster to my reading list.

You don't have to look back very far. Tessier-Lavigne turned his forced resignation after being behind some of the largest research fraud in biotech history into one of the biggest raises (over $1 billion) in biotech history, pretty much immediately after he had been caught.

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