Disgraced ex-Tyco International Ltd chief executive Dennis Kozlowski, who was granted parole this week after serving an eight-year prison sentence, said simple greed had led him to steal more than $150 million from the company, a transcript of a parole board hearing released Thursday showed. "It was greed, pure and simple," the 67-year-old former executive told a New York State parole panel at a Dec. 3 video conference hearing. "I feel horrible ... I can't say how sorry I am and how deeply I regret my actions." The panel granted Kozlowski's parole bid on Tuesday and he is scheduled to be formally released on Jan. 17. A poster boy for the corporate excesses of the 1990s bull market, Kozlowski went to prison after a trial that featured a $6,000 shower curtain and video of a $2 million party with ice sculptures of Michelangelo's David spewing vodka. He was sentenced in 2005 to 8-1/3 to 25 years in prison following his conviction on grand larceny, securities fraud and other charges. At
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