In November, Britain’s Home Office announced that it agreed to a settlement to a lawsuit that had been created by 197 Heroin-addicted prisoners that it was “assault” and violation of European Convention on Human Rights for them to have been denied drugs almost immediately after they were arrested. The government has agreed to pay each of the prisoners the equivalent of about $7000.

Bruce McMahan, in 2004 at the age of 65, whose success with his McMahan Securities hedge fund in the 1990s made him one of America’s wealthiest men, married perhaps unofficially his own daughter who had been born of a 1968 McMahan fling following a two-year affair.

All of this information is accorded to a September report in Florida’s Broward-Palm Beach New Times, based on court documents generated when the daughter sought a break-up.

McMahan denied the affair and the marriage, but New Times found, among other things, many wedding photos and marriage-acknowledging e-mails, and reference to a vibrator laden with “evidence.” All lawsuits relating to the matter were settled, and the files sealed by the court, in early September.

Hmm a vibrator laden with evidence? Father and daughter must have had an active sex life.