Sumner Not Ready To Go Quietly Into That Good Night

Sumner Redstone, Viacom major domo, was looking almost pekid in his reasoning for the sale of $233 million in Viacom and nonvoting CBS stock last week. Yesterday, another Viacom subsid, National Amusements, run by his daughter Shari, issued an almost paranoid defensive statement saying that the sale was not related to the company or performance, according to several news reports .

The statement was likely prompted by an article in Monday’s Wall Street Journal that said National Amusements had sold the shares to back a $1.6

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