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**This volume was produced as a direct-to-Kindle release from Japan. Please enjoy!** Kento and Akira's sweet romance continues... Miraculously, it's been a whole year since the ultra-conservative Kento and the ridiculously flamboyant playboy, Akira, started dating. Though Kento's grandparents have, so far, managed to survive their grandson's gay relationship, Akira still has some secrets that just might send them to their early graves. Should Kento be more concerned about his family's opinion of him, or his high-maintenance lover's extreme complexes? Sweet and funny, this is the story of two people who couldn't be more different, or more perfect for each other.
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Destabilization paradox due to breaking the Hamiltonian and reversible symmetry
Oleg Kirillov
Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering
Stability of a linear autonomous non-conservative system in the presence of potential, gyroscopic, dissipative, and non-conservative positional forces is studied. The cases when the non-conservative system is close to a gyroscopic system or to a circulatory one are examined. It is known that marginal stability of gyroscopic and circulatory systems can be destroyed or improved up to asymptotic stability due to action of small non-conservative positional and velocity-dependent forces. The present paper shows that in both cases the boundary of the asymptotic stability domain of the perturbed system possesses singularities such as "Dihedral angle" and "Whitney umbrella" that govern stabilization and destabilization. In case of two degrees of freedom, approximations of the stability boundary near the singularities are found in terms of the invariants of matrices of the system. As an example, the asymptotic stability domain of the modified Maxwell–Bloch equations is investigated with an application to the stability problems of gyroscopic systems with stationary and rotating damping.
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Kirillov, O. (2007). Destabilization paradox due to breaking the Hamiltonian and reversible symmetry. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 42(1), 71-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2006.09.003
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In reference to the call on Wednesday, Xinhua quoted the White House as saying, "The President told the Prime Minister that he had an important hope today on the path of truce."
"The two leaders discussed in detail the state of events in Gaza, Israel's progress in reducing the capabilities of Hamas and other terrorist elements, and ongoing diplomatic efforts by regional governments and the US," the statement said.
This is the fourth call between Biden and Netanyahu since the crisis began on 1 May.
The Biden administration has also come forward amid growing pressure at home and abroad to urge a halt to violence between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants in Gaza.
A group of Democratic senators issued a joint statement last week urging an immediate ceasefire to prevent further loss of civilian life in the ongoing conflict.
According to the latest figures from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs, 219 Palestinians, including 63 children, were killed in Gaza.
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Energetics Senior Engineer Presents a Technical Paper at the 34th Annual Industrial Energy Technology Conference
NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Columbia, MD, United States, 2012/08/23 - Sabine Brueske, a Senior Engineer at Energetics Incorporated, presented a technical paper on manufacturing energy footprints at the 34th annual Industrial Energy Technology Conference (IETC) in New Orleans, Louisiana - Energetics.com.
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Ms. Brueske co-authored the paper, Manufacturing Energy and Carbon Footprints, with Tom Lorenz of the Energy Information Administration. The paper describes the purpose, scope, and analysis involved in preparing 16 manufacturing energy footprints. The paper also includes a selection of manufacturing footprint results from the draft report "Manufacturing Energy Use and Loss and Emissions Analysis."
The manufacturing footprints are the result of a complex analysis effort. Energy-use statistics, relevant emissions guidelines, and industry expertise were all utilized to devise an analytical model for detailing sector-specific energy use and loss and the associated carbon emissions. Analysts and decision makers utilize the footprints to better understand the distribution of energy use in energy-intensive industries and the accompanying energy losses. The footprints provide a benchmark for calculating the benefits of improving energy efficiency and for prioritizing opportunity analysis.
The conference, which was held from May 29 to June 1, 2012, serves industrial energy professionals who are involved in the production, use, or transportation of energy, or who design and evaluate energy-related equipment. The IETC attracts U.S. and international participants and serves as a source of education for the industrial energy community.
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The 2012–13 season was Paris Saint-Germain Football Club's 43rd in existence and their 40th in the top-flight of French football. The team competed in Ligue 1, the Coupe de France, the Coupe de la Ligue and the UEFA Champions League.

Reinforced by new stars Ezequiel Lavezzi, Zlatan Ibrahimović and Thiago Silva, PSG warmed up for the 2012–13 season with the aim of winning the league crown that dramatically eluded the club the previous year. Paris began at home to Lorient at the Parc des Princes. Les Merlus caused Paris plenty of problems and the match ended 2–2 thanks to Ibrahimović's first brace of the season. The PSG squad took a little time to get going and after three consecutive draws, Les Parisiens recorded their first victory in matchweek 4. It was in the north of France that Paris finally launched their campaign against Lille and a 2–1 victory featuring another double from Ibrahimović. Another three points followed against Toulouse (2–0), before it was time for the UEFA Champions League. After nearly a decade's absence, PSG marked their return to Europe's premier club competition with a resounding 4–1 victory over Dynamo Kyiv.

Buoyed by their continental success, the capital club recorded their largest ever away win with a 4–0 demolition of Bastia before defeating Sochaux-Montbéliard 2–0, in a perfect month of September. October began less well with a late 1–0 defeat away to Porto. Then it was time to travel to the Stade Vélodrome for Le Classique against Olympique de Marseille. Inspired, Zlatan netted two more remarkable goals as the match ended 2-2. It got even better as Stade de Reims, Dinamo Zagreb, Nancy and Marseille, this time in the Coupe de la Ligue, all fell to Paris. The first defeat of the campaign came soon after, 2–1, to Saint-Étienne. It marked the start of a difficult month of November for the side from the French capital. A festive December started in style with a 2–1 win over Porto which saw Paris clinch top spot in Group A of the Champions League. Next up came Evian (4-0), Valenciennes (0–4) and Lyon (1–0); all fell victim to the high-flying Les Rouge-et-Bleu. A comprehensive 3-0 win over Stade Brest in the final match of the calendar year saw PSG secure the honorary title of autumn champions.

2013 began with new Brazilian signing Lucas Moura meeting his new teammates. The return to competition wasn't easy with a tough and slender 4–3 win over Arras in the Coupe de France. After a scoreless draw with AC Ajaccio, Paris stepped up a gear with wins over Bordeaux, Toulouse in the Coupe de France and Lille. The run of matches saw goalkeeper Salvatore Sirigu set a new club record for longest run without conceding a goal, surpassing the previous time set by the legendary Bernard Lama. PSG then produced a huge surprise for their supporters by announcing the signature of David Beckham on the final day of the winter transfer window. The arrival of the English superstar saw the club continue on its winning ways with a 4–0 triumph over Toulouse followed by a 3–1 win over Bastia before the last 16 of the Champions League. Away to Spanish giants Valencia in the first leg, Paris run out 2–1 winners.

The return to domestic action proved a little less convincing with a 3–2 upset at the hands of Sochaux. The reaction was immediate. As Beckham debuted in his new colours, Paris recorded back to back 2–0 home wins against arch-rivals Marseille, firstly in the league and then in the Coupe de France. Paris confirmed their place in the Champions League quarter-finals with a 1–1 draw at home to Valencia. Despite hiccups against Reims (0–1) and Saint-Étienne (2–2), Paris continued to set the pace at the top of the ladder with victories over Nancy, 2–1, and defending champions Montpellier, 1–0. Then came one of the highlights of the season with the quarter-final of the Champions League against Barcelona. And the match lived up to the hype with Blaise Matuidi scoring in the last minute to secure a thrilling 2–2 draw at the Parc des Princes. PSG warmed up for the return match against the Catalan outfit with a 2–0 victory over Rennes in Ligue 1. Then, at the Camp Nou, Javier Pastore opened the scoring for Carlo Ancelotti's players, only to be eliminated on away goals by Pedro's equaliser.

Les Rouges et Bleu bounced back with a 1–0 win over Troyes before quarter-final exits in both the Coupe de la Ligue and the Coupe de France. The players just had to focus on the Ligue 1 title and they did so with a 3–0 victory over Nice before avenging their cup exit with a 1–0 win of their own away to Evian. In the end, a 1–0 win away to Lyon secured the club's first Ligue 1 title in 19 years, and third overall. Jérémy Ménez struck the goal that sent Paris into rapture. The penultimate match of the season saw a 3–1 win over Brest at the Parc des Princes, followed by the official presentation of the Ligue 1 trophy. It also marked the final match of David Beckham's playing career. The final match of the season saw the newly-crowned 2013 champions end with a win over Lorient as Zlatan Ibrahimović received his Golden Boot trophy for Ligue 1 top scorer with 30 goals.

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The first novel from Ian Douglas introduces us to Simon Hadlow, a New Zealand Policeman who has many experiences to his credit, including Diplomatic Protection Service and Undercover work. Simon finds himself in a conflicting situation when his brother in law is arrested on theft and burglary offences and Simon is asked by family member to arrange something to 'get him off'. Preferring to transfer out of town, leaving behind his broken marriage, Simon establishes himself in the popular tourist town of Queenstown where he not only develops his career further but his personal life takes a much needed improvement. A transfer to the Christchurch Policing Area to assist with the management of an off the track Inspector, see's Simon becoming involved in a particularly gruesome investigation involving the discovery of two severed arms, from different bodies. But where did they come from and what is the link to the Royal Artillery and the Falkland Islands ? Within Reach develops the character of Simon Hadlow and those people who are associated with him; from DCI Scotty MacPherson, Pathologist Gordon Williams and Area Commander Mathewson through to Melanie Kensington and her family by way of the twists, turns and international travel that Simon encounters along the way to solving this puzzling case.


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DHEC Fail: SC Health Disparities
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Editorial Submitted by Board Member, Julianna Rhodes
The 2022-23 flu season projections are bleak, with the CDC already reporting early flu activity in the southeast. The CDC and AAP recommend children receive flu vaccines to prevent severe illness and interruptions to school attendance. Flu spreads in the school setting and children with chronic conditions are especially at risk for complications, including the vulnerable adults they return home to. School vaccine clinics, however, can effectively prevent flu transmission.
It is difficult to grasp the prevalence of health disparities among children.
The AAP's policy statement, Recommendations for Prevention and Control of Influenza in Children 2022-2023, reports the flu vaccine rate is historically lower in Blacks, Hispanics, American Indians and Alaskan Natives. DHEC also acknowledges persistent health disparities in its April 2022 declaration to partner with community leaders to decrease inequities. DHEC further states that access to quality preventive care plays a role in health disparities.
It is with great disappointment to learn DHEC chose to conduct a flu clinic for a private school, while leaving many public schools without clinics.
DHEC did not have the workforce to offer flu vaccines to all public students, yet it prioritized efforts in administering vaccines to private school students. DHEC's mission to address disparities was not put in action as they did not align to improve immunization rates for underserved children in public schools. It is unfortunate DHEC did not take the opportunity they had to truly fight health disparities.
Quality health care supports a child's physical, emotional, and cognitive development, & aids in their ability to reach full potential. Health Fund for Children will financially assist children to receive much-needed health care.
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Automotive Brands And Their Luxury Spin-Offs In The UAE
You would be surprised to know which carmakers are behind these luxury brands.
Published on : December 6, 2018 8:17 pm by Hrushikesh Kotasthane
Automobile manufacturers are always on the lookout for the next big thing to captivate their customers. From producing halo cars in severely limited numbers to participating in motorsports events, to signing up celebrities to endorse products, carmakers have been trying everything under the sun to grow sales.
Often times, it does happen that some companies cannot seem to grow out of a specific perception by consumers. Think about it, can you see Honda selling a Phantom? Can you live with a Toyota badge on something as luxurious as a Maybach? Thinking the other way round, seeing an Aston Martin badge on a Stinger GT is unseemly, even if the car is a good looker.
Automakers came up with a clever solution to the perception problem. If the consumers can't see a certain badge on certain cars, why not float a new subsidiary that only deals in automobiles with a specific focus? With that in mind, we present to you the brands in the UAE that are subsidiaries of firms that needed a change of image.
Ever since Honda announced a new independent automotive company it was going to float, other automakers could only watch in stunned silence at this bold new move by Big Red. Acura was founded in March 1986 and continues to be Honda's subsidiary in the business of producing luxury cars.
The first entrant in an empty space usually gets such a headstart that other players can only play catch up. Such is the case with Acura, with other Japanese automakers scrambling in haste to emulate Honda's masterstroke.
Among the automakers who were left bewildered after Honda floated Acura, Toyota was the first to make its move. Just over three years of Acura commencing operations, Toyota announced its own luxury spinoff under the name Lexus. The company has tasted a lot of success and brought laurels to its parent company. I mean who can forget the fearsome Lexus LF-A with its screamer of a V10 motor?
Lexus makes obscenely luxurious sedans, coupes and SUVs that no one could imagine seeing in Toyota's stable. With almost thirty years of independent operations behind them, the company now has a strong foothold in the premium saloon and SUV segment in the UAE, emerging as a worthy competitor to older brands like Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Audi.
It took barely nine weeks for Nissan to rise to the challenge after Toyota cut the ribbon on the Lexus operations. On 8 November 1989, Nissan announced its own luxury spin-off by the name of Infiniti. Though it got off to a slow start, the brand is now raking in handsome sales worldwide, courtesy of its newfound stellar design language and Nissan's trademark build quality and durability.
Infiniti sells luxury SUVs and sedans in the UAE, with its midsize crossovers receiving wide acclaim for their sorted handling and ride quality. Although some might hold the opinion that Infiniti designs its cars a little too ostentatiously, we dig the design on its bigger offerings like the QX80 and QX50.
After the Japanese big three, South Korean manufacturers were up next for global outreach. Hyundai looked at the success of the previous brands in the list and floated its own luxury subsidiary firm, Genesis Motors in 2015.
Genesis had hitherto been using its parent company's underpinnings and drivetrain for its range of cars. With the launch of the 2019 G90, the company has also introduced an all-new platform that will be the basis for future models. Although the firm is still in its single-digit years of life, it has already kicked off decently, offering radical designs and high-output powertrains, something one wouldn't associate with Hyundai.
RAM is a well-known entity that has been in the business of building massive pickup trucks since 2010. What many people are confused about is RAM's history. American auto conglomerate Chrysler had been offering a pickup truck called Ram under the Dodge brand. While Dodge changed many hands and leadership, the Dodge Ram saw steady, enthusiastic even, sales and earned a loyal global fan base.
In 2010, Chrysler Automobiles officially inaugurated RAM Trucks as a separate entity tasked with producing nothing but pickup trucks. RAM now has an extensive lineup of light, midsize, as well as heavy-duty pickups, and is consistently seeing good business in the UAE, where its size appeal instantly finds takers.
Did you know the above firms were floated by manufacturers you didn't even imagine? If you know more such entities, drop a comment and we will update this piece accordingly.
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Updated on : December 07, 2018 5:54 pm
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Golden Eagles in a Perilous Landscape: Predicting the Effects of Mitigation for Wind Turbine Blade Strike Mortality
Title: Golden Eagles in a Perilous Landscape: Predicting the Effects of Mitigation for Wind Turbine Blade Strike Mortality
Authors: Hunt, G.
Document Number: P500-02-043F
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Hunt, G. (2002). Golden Eagles in a Perilous Landscape: Predicting the Effects of Mitigation for Wind Turbine Blade Strike Mortality. Report by University of California Santa Cruz. pp 72.
The Predatory Bird Research Group, University of California, Santa Cruz, has been conducting a long-term study of golden eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) in the Diablo Mountains of west-central California. The initial work (1994-1997), funded by the wind industry and by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), used aerial tracking of radio-tagged eagles to address the question of whether eagle deaths resulting from wind turbine blade strikes at the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area (WRA) were seriously affecting the population. Estimates are that wind turbines kill 40-60 subadult and adult golden eagles each year, on average. Golden eagles, being naturally slow to reproduce, are particularly sensitive to changes in adult and subadult survival rates. For this reason, and because of its popularity, the species is afforded special protection by both federal and state governments. There is no legal provision for the killing of golden eagles.
Wind turbine blades also kill other protected species in the WRA, including several hundred red-tailed hawks (Buteo jamaicensis) and American kestrels (Falco sparvarius) each year. The fatalities have caused adverse public perception of wind power plants, and the threat of fines and lawsuits has delayed, modified, or even stopped wind energy development in some states, including California. Alameda County, for example, has imposed a moratorium on increase over current electrical production (~580 MW) until progress is made toward resolving the birdstrike issue. To address the problem, research must determine whether the fatalities threaten the birds on a population basis, what kinds of turbine/tower configurations are most destructive, and what management actions could reduce the number of fatalities.
We began the current investigation in June of 1998 under the support of the California Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program. At that time, extensive repowering appeared imminent in the WRA. Of particular interest was the intended replacement of some 1300 turbines with a larger and possibly more benign type, at an approximate ratio of seven removed for every one replaced. Our objectives were to increase the samples of radio-tagged eagles and to continue monitoring them for the purpose of (1) further understanding the demographics, (2) tracking the net result of repowering, and (3) exploring other measures that might effectively reduce the incidence of golden eagle mortality. As time passed, it became apparent that difficulties within the wind industry would delay the repowering process beyond the scope of the study. We therefore focused upon eagle deaths relative to existing turbine configurations in an attempt to identify the factors contributing most to blade-strike mortality. This approach, with its emphasis on radio-telemetry, a technique with virtually no distributional bias, offered a measure of prediction regarding the efficacy of expected changes in the WRA.


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Tax Transparency: We Should Have a Good Debate
February 22, 2013 Siromani Dhungana	2 Comments
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IMF working paper on 'VAT Fraud and Evasion: What Do We Know and What Can be Done?' says: Like any tax, the VAT is vulnerable to evasion and fraud. But its credit and refund mechanism does offer unique opportunities for abuse… After introduction of Value Added Tax (VAT) revenue in 1997, Nepal's tax administration has been facing many challenges to effectively implement it. Multi-million VAT fraud scam was one of the serious threats faced by Nepal's tax administration. The scam has once again come to limelight after Nepal's tax administration — Inland Revenue Department — has moved to the Supreme Court challenging the decision taken by National Information Commission which had directed the government to reveal the detail of VAT fraud.
VAT Fraud in Nepal
In fact, 518 firms were not taxpayer but fraudsters. They had not tried to evade or avoid their tax compliances. The case was more complicated in nature since the fraud, according to officials involved in investigation, could ruin the entire economic system of the country if tax administration had failed to identify the problem on time.
These firms had made false claims for credit and refund by presenting forged invoices for non-existent or exaggerated purchases and succeeded to take rebate from state coffer to the transactions which were never happened in reality.
Inland Revenue Department – had completed the investigation of 518 firms involved in Value Added Tax (VAT) scam that had tarnished the image of the private sector in April 2012. The department had assessed a total of Rs 6.59 billion revenue — Rs 3.06 billion VAT, Rs 3.32 billion income tax and Rs 205.27 million excise — from the investigation.
Concluding the investigation director general at IRD Tanka Mani Sharma had said: "the trend of under-invoicing, attempt to avoid VAT and producing fake VAT invoices by creating fictitious transactions have been found during investigations." He had also said that traders, contractors and firms across the country were involved in robbing national coffers by producing fake VAT bills.
Debate: Revenue a Public Information or Not
From the very beginning, there was tussle between civil society members and tax administration regarding information of VAT fraud. On the one hand, civil society members advocated for the reveal of entire information claiming that getting tax information is peoples' right to know. However, tax administration constantly denied the name of firms and businessmen to reveal citing Nepal's Income Tax Act.
Later the dispute reached to the National Information Commission (NIC) which directed Finance Ministry to provide the detail information of VAT fraud in July, 2011.
Giving its final verdict in October 2011 to the complaint lodged by Freedom Forum, National Information Commission has directed the Finance Ministry to reveal the names of VAT evaders. Concluding that the people have the right to know about their tax amount, the commission directed the government to reveal the name of firms involved in VAT fraud.
A New Twist
Quite paradoxical that Nepal's tax administration is trying to protect them under Income Tax Act and Value Added Tax (VAT) Act. Civil society members claim that this is a direct protection of VAT defaulters by Nepal's tax administration.
Nearly two years after the decision of NIC, Nepal's tax administration approached the Supreme Court on February 20 asking it to annul the decision taken by NIC regarding public disclosure of VAT scam.
Tax can never be an issue of public interest in Nepal and businessmen and officials at tax administration, from their attitude, are trying to prove that tax is collected due to their effort, opines Kathmandu-based revenue analyst Anirudra Neupane.
The question whether tax issue should be public or not has been raised after the move of the tax administration. Chairperson at Freedom Forum Tara Nath Dahal says: "It was not simply a scam of tax evasion or tax avoidance. Some big and reputed companies, traders and business firms had involved in Value Added Tax (VAT) fraud producing counterfeit invoice. They produced fake invoice and claim refund to the transaction which were never happened in reality."
General public are real taxpayers and they have right to know the status of their tax money, adds Dahal. But, tax administration in Nepal is trying to establish the notion that tax is not an issue of public disclosure by challenging the decision by NIC.
In spite of criticism from different quarters to prosecute criminal charge against businessmen and firms involved in the biggest robbery of state coffer, Nepal's tax administration has been constantly protecting VAT defaulter invoking Income Tax Act which is not natural, says Dahal.
Gravity of the Issue
"Using fake VAT bill is a serious crime that equals to using fake currency notes," former Finance Minister Bharat Mohan Adhikari had said during interrogation by then parliamentary Public Accounts Committee in March 2011.
The government should respect taxpayers but not fraudsters, according to Krishna Sapkota who has been closely observing VAT scam. The move of Inland Revenue Department has raised the question of role of Nepal's tax administration.
In principle, the government should spend tax money in transparent manner but the latest move of IRD will be a stumbling block to civil society's campaign of making tax issues transparent, says Sapkota.
Even poorest of poor people contribute taxes to government's treasury, adds Sapkota. How the tax administration can protect the persons involved in cases which, according to responsible minister, is equal to produce fake currency.
If revoked from the Supreme Court, it will be serious setback to Nepal's Right to Information movement, according to him.
Solution: Reform in System
Transparency and accountability should be at the core within the tax system in democratic country. The government should respect and protect taxpayers but not fraudsters. For that, national tax law and policy should be transparent. Public disclosure of tax will help reduce tax related fraud and maintain transparency in tax regime. Greater tax disclosure will create a fair and sensible approach in tax system. Transparency in tax should be in center of debate in Nepal's tax policy and governance. The government should take the discourse created by VAT scam to bring about reform in VAT regime in the country. However, the government should not forget that it should be responsible to the real taxpayers. Accountable government should treat all taxpayers equally and tax administration should not act in a manner where public can feel discrimination between rich and hardcore general public. In fact, tax money is public money and all citizens has right to know on its spending.
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Category Archives: Ohio State Murder
A Message from Bomani Shakur (Keith LaMar) from Ohio's death row about injustice, racism, and getting on with life
Posted on September 16, 2015 by internationalprisonwatch
Hello everybody:
Well, I finally received and read the court's decision. What can I say? It's so blatantly bogus that it's almost impossible to form words to describe how I feel. It's tragic. I mean, I've read the State's theory quite a few times over the years, and I've refuted it every step of the way. But to now have it stand as the final word on the matter is a real slap in the face (to say the least). This system is such a joke, and these people, with their fancy titles and fancy robes, are nothing but a bunch of racist idiots with power—a power that they don't deserve. And I'm expected to continue this charade by filing this or that motion, writing to this or that person, as if appealing to these people's supposed conscience really means something beyond reducing me to a sniveling fool. I'm done with that. I'm done pleading and begging for my body, as if "my life" is something that they can truly take. My life is the sum total of all the thoughts and feelings that reside inside my mind, and they can never touch that.
We've given these people (?) way too much power over us, entrusted them with too much that is too precious, only to have them use, abuse and confuse us over and over again.
Why? Why do we continue to believe in this dream, this lie that we live in a post-racial society that recognizes only human beings? When will we ever wake up and see that all they have ever done is hide what's real by revealing what's false? I mean, contradiction after contradiction, and we swallow it all. Why? And this is how we're expected to live our whole lives: watching little boys get gunned down at the playground for playing with toy guns—and no one is held accountable. How is that justice? A man standing on the sidewalk selling cigarettes (in the richest country in the world, no less) is murdered in broad daylight, on video, for everyone to see—and still no one is held accountable. And I'm supposed to be shocked and surprised that I lost my appeal?
Let's get real. They've been killing niggers for centuries around here—hanging 'em, burying 'em, tar and feathering 'em. . . And ain't I just a nigger, a THING? No? Well, tell that to the Supreme Court who, in 1875, declared that Dred Scott could not sue for his freedom because HE WAS NOT A PERSON, BUT PROPERTY. Better yet, tell it to Eric Garner's family who, instead of receiving justice for their loss, were given a bag full of money to bury their grief, as if he was some kind of farm animal.
Make no mistake: when it comes to the so-called "justice system" in this country, we're still stuck in the 1800s; the only thing that has changed is the vantage point from which we view what we choose to see. So look closely, adjust your scope, and you'll see the tree and the rope. They're still hanging niggers in America!
Over 100 of you showed up at my oral arguments last December and saw with your own eyes how ridiculous this whole thing is; the State couldn't defend what they did. Many of you left with an optimistic feeling, believing that there was no way such a mockery could be rewarded with a victory. I feel your pain. It's the same pain I felt after the blindfold was ripped from my eyes twenty years ago when a man, testifying at my trial, got on the stand and claimed to have had microscopic microchips embedded in his brain. There's no way a jury is going to find me guilty of this, I told myself. But find me guilty they did—and then they sentenced me to death! Believe me, I know what it means to be disillusioned. Indeed, for the past twenty years, I've watched the so-called "wheel of justice" roll over my rights while my alleged attorneys have done nothing but sit back and collect a fee to auction off my life. Trust me, this whole process has been nothing but a sham.
Case in point: Three weeks after oral arguments were heard in my case, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on another case in which the principal issue, once again, revolved around the withholding of exculpatory (favorable) evidence. In this case, a Mr. Darryl Gumm admitted to the kidnapping, attempted rape, and murder of a ten-year-old boy. However, since the State neglected to divulge to Mr. Gumm's attorneys that other suspects—two of whom reportedly confessed to the murder—were initially pursued, Mr. Gumm was granted relief. He was also granted relief on the grounds of prosecutorial misconduct, after the prosecutor improperly elicited testimony from Mr. Gumm's ex-roommate who testified that he (Mr. Gumm) "fucked a horse" that belonged to the roommate's family.
Now, I think we can all agree that there's nothing more deplorable than the rape and murder of a 10-year-old child (to say nothing of the horse!)—and yet, in reviewing his claims, the Sixth Circuit, notwithstanding Mr. Gumm's confession, was correct in granting him relief since the State violated his Constitutional rights by not turning over evidence that contradicted their theory of events. This is the exact same thing the prosecution did in my case (and worse), and I, likewise, should have received relief. In fact, not only did Mr. Gumm and I have the same issue, but we had the same attorney, the same federal judge, and appealed to the same court (I wish I was making this stuff up).
On his initial appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court, Mr. Gumm's convictions were upheld (as were mine), after which an appeal was filed in federal court. Here, Mr. Gumm was appointed an attorney named Kate McGarry (as was I), who diligently pursued his claims, even after his sentence was reduced to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole. Chief Magistrate Michael Mertz (same judge as I) presided over the case and recommended that Mr. Gumm receive relief. The State appealed to the Sixth Circuit, who ultimately upheld the District Court's decision to grant relief to Mr. Gumm.
I present this case and its particulars, not to judge or castigate Mr. Gumm (obviously, he's a very sick man), but to illustrate the arbitrary and capricious (and racist!) way in which "justice" is meted out in this country, and why the death penalty cannot be administered fairly.
Unlike Mr. Gumm, I never confessed to any crime; indeed, when the State offered me a deal, I rejected it outright and demanded a trial. I said it then, and I say it now: I didn't kill anybody during the riot. But instead of turning over evidence that would help prove my innocence, the State played a game of mix and match, mixing random witness names with random excerpts of statements, and then told me to figure it out on my own. They never attempted to treat me fairly.
In 2007, when I was called back for an evidentiary hearing, I was allowed, through my attorneys, to put Lead Prosecutor Mark Piepmeier on the stand. He was the one who had fashioned the guidelines by which exculpatory evidence was turned over. Therefore, getting him on the stand was pivotal in proving that I was deprived of my right to due process. Under examination, he admitted that he had devised a Brady scheme that was decidedly narrow; to wit, in order for a statement to be viewed as favorable to my defense the witness had to "specifically exclude" me as a suspect.
In other words, if a witness came forward and claimed to have seen one of the murders, his statement was not viewed as exculpatory unless he specifically stated, "By the way, Keith LaMar wasn't there." This is crazy. Why would anybody, testifying to what they saw, think it necessary to specifically exclude me if they didn't see me? And if they didn't see me, how could they automatically assume I was a suspect? It didn't make sense—unless, of course, the whole purpose behind narrowing the qualifications was to stifle and hinder the defense.
Because of what Piepmeier revealed on the stand at my evidentiary hearing, attorneys representing other prisoners who were sentenced to death after the riot (S.A. Hasan and George Skatzes) were able to convince the court to put their clients' cases on hold while they combed the prosecutor's files to determine for themselves what exactly was wrongfully withheld—and whether or not it was exculpatory.
It was the only fair and reasonable solution to circumvent the preposterous provisions that were established by the State (note: this all happened in 2011, over four years ago, and their cases are still on hold!). But when I asked my attorney, Kate McGarry, to file the necessary motions that would put my case on hold and allow me to go back and review the files, she refused (after initially giving me her word that she would). Why?
To put it plainly: racism. Kate McGarry is a racist. That's the real reason why she didn't diligently pursue my claims, and why I lost my appeal. I mean, how else to explain it? A white man admits to the kidnapping, attempted rape, and murder of a ten-year-old boy, and she goes above and beyond to protect his rights. Meanwhile, I'm swinging in the wind, strung up in a tree of lies.
About being a racist, I'm sure Kate would vehemently deny such an accusation. But racists very seldom acknowledge that they are racist. Once, while engaged in casual conversation, Kate broached the subject of Trayvon Martin's death, wanting to know what I thought about it. I told her point-blank that it was racist bullshit.
"How can you justify killing a teenage boy who's walking home drinking pop, eating Skittles?" I asked. She went on to explain George Zimmerman's side, as if there was a plausible excuse for why he did what he did. That was the first time I saw it.
On another occasion, I asked Kate about a Senate bill that was being proposed in Arizona, having to do with improperly stopping suspected illegal immigrants. I wanted to know if she was in favor of something that would effectively violate the rights of large groups of Mexicans. She said something to the effect that, "those people enjoy our freedoms, but they don't want to pay taxes. . ." She went on to tell me about a time when she was having one of her houses built and suspected that there were a few "undocumented workers" on the site.
"Did you go out and stop production? " I asked.
"Oh, no, I didn't do that," she replied, without the slightest sense of hypocrisy in being willing to benefit from their cheap labor while at the same time denying them the right to live as human beings.
Imagine what it felt like coming to the realization that I was being represented by a racist. And before I'm accused of singling Kate out, let me be clear: this whole process was steeped in racism, from the strategic selection of the all-white jury to the hand-picked racist judge that presided over my trial. And that's the true truth.
So, here I am, standing on the other side of a very long and treacherous journey. What now? In thinking about what to do with what remains of my time, I think it's important to turn my attention to the movement to abolish the death penalty. Indeed, if we are ever going to move beyond the 1800s, we have to end this barbaric practice of State-sanctioned murder.
There will be a 7-day Walk to Stop Executions (October 4-10) from the Death House in Lucasville to the State House in Columbus to show opposition to capital punishment, and I want to encourage all of you who are able to come out and show your support. We have to stop this thing, and only we—standing together!—can do it. So please show your support. You can find more information at: http://walkagainstthedeathpenalty.footprintsforpeace.net.
In addition to that, I intend to increase my efforts to reach out to at-risk youth. I've had several opportunities to phone in to juvenile detention centers and talk with groups of young men who're at the beginning of this road, and it's been a very meaningful exchange. I want to double my efforts there and get them some books that'll teach them about what it means to be alive. A very good book called "Between the World and Me" (Ta-Nehisi Coates) just came out, and I want to get as many copies as possible into juvenile detention centers. It's a powerful piece, written to the author's 15-year-old son about the perils of inhabiting a black body in a racist country.
To raise money to purchase the books, I'm putting up for auction one of the paintings I recently finished, a piece I'm calling "Chillin' on Green Court," a reference to the projects where I spent most of my formative years. It took me 117 hours to complete, and I'm hoping you all will support me in my desire to get some books in to these young people. They need our help. The auction can be found online at Ebay through September 25th at: http://csr.ebay.com/sell/success.jsf?itemid=121760895747&mode=AddItem&draftId=483016342002
I also intend to resume writing my own manuscript. While awaiting the decision, I found it hard to concentrate on writing, which is why I took up painting. Now that the federal court has said what it has to say, I need to get back to my life. I refuse to allow these people, and this situation, to distract me from my purpose. They put me in this madness to make an example out of me, to show other rebellious souls what they'll do to them if they resist. They tried to break me, to strip me of my strength and rob me of my smile, all so that they could parade me around as a warning to others. But, look! I'm still standing! I'm still smiling! I'm still fighting!
It ain't over,
Bomani Shakur
New Film Sheds Light on Lucasville Prison Uprising Cases:
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Ohio: Walk to Stop Executions!
From the website: Walk Against the Death Penalty:
On Sunday October 4, 2015, abolitionists from Ohio and beyond will begin a 7 day 83 mile walk from the Lucasville prison where death row inmates are executed to the Statehouse in Columbus calling for an end to capital punishment as proposed in two bills pending in the House and Senate.
Those unable to participate in the full walk can join the final two hour leg in Columbus on Saturday, October 10, the World Day Against the Death Penalty, or attend the 12 noon rally at Trinity Episcopal Church, 125 E. Broad St. across from the Capitol.
Keynote speakers include OJPC director David Singleton and two murder victim family members Sam Reese Sheppard, and OTSE President Melinda Dawson.
Posted in 2015, abolish, abolishing the death penalty, abolition, abolition of the death penalty, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, death penalty, death penalty in Ohio, death row, death sentences, Lucasville, Ohio, Ohio State Murder	| Tagged 2015, abolishing the death penalty, abolishment, abolisihing the death penalty, abolition, abolition of the death penalty, activism, death penalty, death penalty in OH, death sentences, executions, halting executions, Ohio, Ohioans to Stop Executions (OTSE)
Ohio man Dennis McGuire is executed using new drug
Posted on January 16, 2014 by californiaprisonwatch
Please consider to protest the execution of Dennis McGuire
You may also send an email to the advisor of the Governor: kim.kutschbach@governor.ohio.gov
Reblogged from BBC
A man convicted of murder in the US state of Ohio has been executed using a new, never-before-tried lethal injection combination.
Dennis McGuire, 53, was killed on Thursday with a two-drug cocktail, after the maker of the previous execution drug refused to allow its use in capital punishment.
McGuire appeared to gasp and snort over the 15 minutes it took him to die.
He was sentenced to death for the 1989 rape and murder of Joy Stewart.
Stewart was pregnant.
In recent years, US states have had increasing difficulty obtaining drugs for use in lethal injections, as their manufacturers have grown unwilling to provide them for that use.
Ohio officials elected to use intravenous doses of the sedative midazolam and painkiller hydromorphone for McGuire's execution.
Lawyers for McGuire had said the drugs placed him at risk of air hunger, a phenomenon which causes terror as the patient struggles to catch his breath.
During the procedure, McGuire gasped several times and his mouth repeatedly opened and closed, according to an Associated Press news agency reporter who witnessed the execution.
An Ohio federal judge had rejected a last-minute appeal to delay the execution after McGuire's legal team argued a jury never heard details of his reportedly troubled childhood.
McGuire's lawyers alleged he was abused, leading to impaired brain function that made him prone to impulsive actions.
Ohio Governor John Kasich also rejected McGuire's efforts to become an organ donor, a legal manoeuvre that previously allowed another death row inmate an eight-month reprieve.
Posted in 2014, cruel and unusual punishment, death penalty, Dennis McGuire, executions, experimenting with humans, John Kasich, Ohio, Ohio State Murder	| Tagged 2014, cruel and unusual punishment, death penalty, Dennis McGuire, executions, experimenting with humans, John Kasich, Ohio, Ohio State Murder
State of Ohio Murders Prisoner
Posted on April 19, 2012 by californiaprisonwatch
People of Ohio and of the world: the death penalty does not bring "closure" or "justice", it is an uncivilized, cruel human rights violation that has to stop now. We can not be doing the same as the person who was imprisoned did. We can never know for sure. We have to stand above revenge.
From: Cleveland.com:
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2012/04/ohio_to_execute_man_in_1983_po.html
LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Ohio on Wednesday executed a man for fatally stabbing the 15-year-old son of his former employers during a 1985 farmhouse burglary, marking the state's first execution in six months.
Forty-nine-year-old Mark Wiles died by lethal injection at 10:42 a.m., ending an unofficial moratorium on the death penalty that occurred while the state and a federal judge wrangled over Ohio's lethal injection procedures. It was the 47th execution since Ohio resumed putting inmates to death in 1999.
Wiles, looking haggard with a sparse, cropped gray beard and shaven head, stared at witnesses for a few moments when he entered the death chamber. A few minutes later, strapped to the gurney and IV lines inserted into his arms, he raised his head and looked at witnesses again.
"Since this needs to be happening, truly I pray that my dying brings some solace and closure to the Klima family and their loved ones," he said.
He also thanked his family for their love and support.
"Finally, the state of Ohio should not be in the business of killing its citizens," Wiles concluded, reading a statement that the warden held over his head. "May God bless us all that fall short."
Wiles' stomach rose and fell several times and his head moved slightly, then his mouth fell open and he lay still for several minutes before he was pronounced dead.
John Craig, a cousin of Wiles' victim Mark Klima and a witness of the execution, appeared briefly before reporters to respond to Wiles' last words.
"It's my opinion that Mark Wiles gave up his citizenship to Ohio when he murdered my cousin and became an inmate, more or less a condemned man," Craig said.
View full sizeOhio Department of Rehababilitation and CorrectionMark Wiles
Wiles, who dropped his final appeal last week, told the Ohio Parole Board that he wasn't sure he deserved mercy but he was requesting clemency because he had to. Both the parole board and Gov. John Kasich denied Wiles' request.
Wiles' defense team had argued he should be spared because he confessed to the crime, showed remorse and had a good prison record.
Records show that Wiles surprised 15-year-old Mark Klima during a burglary at his family's farmhouse and stabbed him repeatedly with a kitchen knife until he stopped moving.
Wiles could easily have escaped the farmhouse after Klima surprised him but instead chose to stab the teen repeatedly, Portage County Prosecutor Victor Vigluicci told the parole board.
A report to the parole board said Wiles had suffered a head injury in a bar 12 days before the slaying in Rootstown in northeast Ohio, and a doctor testified that tests indicate he may have an injury to part of the brain that regulates impulse control. Another doctor agreed that Wiles has a brain injury and said he also has a substance-abuse problem and personality disorder.
The parole board earlier this month ruled unanimously that Wiles' execution should proceed because he exploited the kindness of the family, for whom Wiles had been a farmhand, and because his remorse doesn't outweigh the brutality of the crime.
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Wiles paced back and forth and was emotional and anxious in his last minutes in his cell a few steps from the death chamber, prisons spokeswoman JoEllen Smith said. The inmate spent the night on the phone, listening to the radio and writing letters, Smith said. He and two sisters and a brother-in-law cried during emotional visits Wednesday morning, and he also said the rosary with his spiritual adviser, a Roman Catholic priest who works at Ohio's death row in Chillicothe.
Wiles did not sleep since arriving at the death house Tuesday morning about 9:45 a.m., Smith said.
"He did have a few brief moments where he became emotional upon his arrival, but his overall demeanor has remained the same, which is respectful, cooperative and compliant with our staff," Smith said.
For his special meal Tuesday night, Wiles requested a large pizza with pepperoni and extra cheese, hot sauce, a garden salad with ranch dressing, a large bag of Cheetos, a whole cheesecake, fresh strawberries, vanilla wafers and Sprite, Smith said.
Ohio's most recent execution delays stem from inmates' lawsuits over how well executioners perform their duties.
U.S. District Court Judge Gregory Frost sided with inmates last summer and postponed executions while the state updated its procedures.
In November, Frost allowed Ohio to put Reginald Brooks to death for killing his three sons in 1982. In the process, executioners deviated slightly from their written execution plan.
The changes were minor but angered Frost, who had made his impatience with even slight changes clear. He once again put executions on hold.
Two weeks ago, after a weeklong trial over the latest procedures, Frost said the state had narrowly demonstrated it was serious about following its rules. He warned prison officials to get it right the next time.
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Data for Social Change | An Interview with Andrew Stott
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February 13, 2017 Daniel Marciniak
By Daniel Marciniak and Vivian Ng
February 13, 2017 In Blog, Technology, Big Data and Human Rights: Scope, Methods and Regulation
The open data initiative has gained traction and visibility in recent years, particularly with various governments releasing a wide range of public data. Andrew Stott, the former Director for Transparency and Digital Environment for the UK Government, is an expert in this area who has been deeply engaged with the British government's transformation towards data-driven governance. We interviewed Andrew when he came to speak at the Talk Big Data seminar on 'Big Data, Big Brother' at the University of Essex on 17 November 2016.
Could you tell us about the work you have done and your work at data.gov.uk advocating for open data?
I have had a multi-faceted career in government. My recent work has been about driving the open data revolution, fuelling research, improved services in government, and public participation in improving public services at local level.
To illustrate the impact open data can have on the delivery of services at the local level – two examples might be helpful. First, the publication of data on hospital infection rates in the UK drove down infection rates by 84%, without allocating more budget for this in the health service. It pushed hospital managers to ensure staff took basic hand washing hygiene seriously, and to spend money that was already allocated for deep cleans on actually doing the deep cleans. Second, in Uganda giving mothers in rural villages data on public health and data on the resources that the government was allocating for rural health led to a drop in infant mortality by a third, compared to control villages where this was not done. Mothers became more assertive about ensuring their children receive the inoculations they were entitled to, and about expecting healthcare workers to turn up when they were supposed to.
Much of my work in the British government involved service transformation, transformation of government, data-driven governance, the use of data for operational decisions, and the use of administrative data within government. My final job in the government was to lead the work on open data, much of which has surfaced through data.gov.uk. From my experience, the UK has been an international leader in the area of open data. Since my retirement from public service in 2010, I have continued to provide advice to the Cabinet Office, the Foreign Office, the Department of Transport, as well as other governments bilaterally and through international organisations. This has been focused on open data for transparency and accountability, and open data for business innovation and economic growth.
Open data does not include personal data. Even if personal data is made public, the use of such data is still governed by data protection principles. For example, even if the names of company directors are public information, there is no consent for their information to be used for junk mail. For information about people convicted in court, such data may be relevant only for a restricted amount of time. Sometimes it is possible to anonymise personal data so that it can be freely used; but that needs care: one of the things we did at the start of the data.gov.uk project was to commission academic work with some 'white hat' hackers to deepen our understanding about anonymization. We looked into the measures that needed to be taken to satisfy beyond reasonable doubt that the anonymization could not be reversed – not just within the data itself but also by using other available datasets.
What is your sense of public response to the open data initiative?
For a whole host of open data initiatives, there has generally been a positive response.
Take for example the publication of educational performance figures – knowing how your child's school is performing is important to parents and it gets them more involved in education. Some teachers and educationalists did object to the publication of educational performance figures because they perceived it as telling parents that their children are going to a poorly-performing school. But what is the justification of withholding that knowledge? The evidence has shown that publishing this information drove performance up. Interestingly, the data shows that some of the best school leaders are going to work at schools where they can make a difference. The publication of data also encourages improvement in the accuracy and relevance of the data: since the initial publication of exam results more factors have been explored to study how children perform and how much they advance in a particular school – social class, income, good parenting and so on. That data did not exist until the initial data got published.
So unless you get the data out there, there is not much incentive to improve. Having the data out there, with more people using it, empowers the people within the organisation who want better data to make the case for funding efforts to improve the upstream sources.
What is the relationship between open data and change?
An open government is not just about the government making information available; it is also about the government listening to and engaging with civil society. I have seen a variety in this regard – from governments that publish a lot of information but do not listen, to some other governments that publish information and actively stop civil society organising around that information.
There are relatively few "armchair auditors", since most people do not like to spend their evenings ploughing through large government datasets on expenditure – but it only takes a few to highlight questionable payments and so make officials look more closely at the justification for everything they spend.
What is interesting here, is how community groups have started using data to agitate for change. They do not look at data in the abstract and think about a cause; they have a cause and want to make an improvement. Having data allows them to lobby more effectively. For example, tools developed in a project about visualising transport data, a project I am involved in for the European Commission, have been used by community groups in Birmingham to visualise road accidents involving children in relation to the location of schools. This has helped to identify unsafe junctions that need to be improved, and safe walking routes.
In the UK the central government has a challenging task to ensure minimum standards and local responsiveness across huge national public service delivery networks. Hence, there has been a self-interest for central government to adopt an open data policy as it creates greater transparency in the performance of public services. This enables local communities to engage and press for local improvements where they are due, which improves performance and encourages greater accountability. For example, health service performance data for individual hospitals was made public on nhs.uk, which prompted patients to question the disparity in performance between hospitals. Similarly, crime data published on police.uk has led to more public engagement in setting local policing priorities. Drawing on another example in Uganda, at one time only 24% of the budget allocated to the schools actually reached the schools. The Government published the budget it was allocating for individual schools, and parents and head teachers could question where the rest of the money had gone if it had not reached the schools. Over five years, the portion of the money actually reaching the local school rose to 80%.
What role does transparency play in the successes that open data brings about?
We are facing a time where there is an erosion of trust in governments by citizens. Therefore, governments need to be more open about what they are doing, how they are performing, and engage citizens more. That is the way – the only way – that they can maintain public trust. Engaging local communities is also the way that services can be developed to meet local needs.
Key insights from the interview
Our interview with Andrew is evidence that information is powerful. An informed citizenry is an empowered citizenry, and informational transparency from the government is a critical driver of public trust. The many examples Andrew shared illustrated that open data can reveal the potential causes of problems, trigger action, and generate positive change.
Disclaimer: The views expressed herein are the author(s) alone.
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Home » Judge Dismisses 110 of the Felony Counts Against Southern California Attorney Accused of Loan Modification Scam
Judge Dismisses 110 of the Felony Counts Against Southern California Attorney Accused of Loan Modification Scam
It was a Friday afternoon not more than a couple of months ago when Christopher Lee Diener, a 42 year-old Orange County lawyer, was arrested and charged with 118 felonies in connection with an alleged loan modification scam that was taking advantage of distressed homeowners. Diener's two partners were arrested as well. They were each charged with 98 felony counts.
Diener was the first attorney in California to be arrested for running a loan modification scam. The very first one. Prosecutors said that Diener's loan modification scam had defrauded 400 victims out of $1.25 million; that he took their money and did no work for the clients. Finally, a real loan mod scammer in the flesh.
Clearly, Mr. Diener was the kind of threat to society that had to be immediately imprisoned and held on a seven-figure bail amount. That afternoon he found himself facing up to 70 years in state prison if convicted.
Or, perhaps not.
During the three week preliminary hearing, Orange County Superior Court Judge Salvador Sarmiento, in conjunction with the District Attorney, DISMISSED 110 of the charges. The judge said he simply heard no evidence on 60 counts, and Deputy District Attorney George McFetridge said he dismissed numerous other counts, and I suppose 50 qualifies as numerous, "in light of the evidentiary rulings," meaning that he did so because the judge said he heard no evidence on 60 counts. Diener spent the entire month in jail before his bail was finally reduced and he was released.
118 – 110 = 8
Diener now faces just eight counts… six counts of grand theft from individual complaining witnesses, one count of grand theft of a credit card processing company and one count of conspiracy to commit grand theft. Diener's two co-defendants, who were originally charged with 98 counts, now face only four counts each. Diener's attorney, Lisa Bethune, estimates the total dollars involved in the eight charges at less than $60,000, which compared with $1.25 million, looks something like this:
You mean to say that the District Attorney prosecuting the case, who presumably had reviewed the evidence, made the decision to file the charges, had Mr. Diener arrested and then argued for a seven-figure bail amount, suggesting that he was a threat to the public, then listened to the evidence that he himself presented at the preliminary hearing… and didn't hear any evidence of what he had charged? At a preliminary hearing, where he only had to show probable cause, a very low level of proof? And 94% of the charges disappeared? Seriously? I hate it when that happens.
I'm no lawyer, but which is it… prosecutorial abuse or prosecutorial incompetence? Is there a third possibility here?
Bethune stated: "This is so outrageous… I think the bottom line is, I don't believe he'll be found guilty of any crime. To have no sufficient evidence at the end of the preliminary hearing, where the standard of proof is the lowest there is — think about that."
So, at this point, it's not even clear whether the remaining eight counts will stand. Bethune said she would attempt to have the remaining charges against her client dropped at the April 20 arraignment.
Diener's is one of more than 400 lawyers under investigation by the state bar task force that has received more than 1,600 complaints made by distressed homeowners who paid the attorneys to help them obtain a loan modification, but they didn't get one. And since they weren't able to sue their bank for not wanting to modify their loan, or the federal government for the Making Home Affordable loan modification program being an abject failure, they became angry and found a blog where someone told them they should complain to the state bar… so they did.
Okay, I realize that's not what the distressed homeowners would say. They'd say that they paid the attorney in question and he or she failed to do any work towards getting their loan modified. But we all know that's probably not true, right? Because now we all know that it's the banks that aren't doing what they promised when they agreed to participate in President Obama's Home Affordable Modification Program, or HAMP. It's not lawyers who modify loans, it's banks that modify loans… or not… as in this example.
The state bar suspended Diener's license last October, but has abated Diener's case pending the outcome of the criminal matter.
Of course, none of that matters to I-can-tell-a-guilty-person-just-by-looking-at-him-Attorney General Jerry Brown, who has continued to use the issue to make himself sound like Elliott Ness, even if he looks more like a svelte Lou Grant from the Mary Tyler Moore television series of the 1970s. Attorney General Brown is suing Diener and his partners, seeking civil penalties, restitution, an injunction, and the governor's desk.
Bethune stated: "This is a lawyer with no previous record who really was setting out to help people with the best of intentions. He lost a month of his life in custody." She says he has lost his ability to make a living as a result of the irrational persecution by the state.
(Okay, I added that last part about "irrational persecution," but I'm guessing she would have liked adding it to her last sentence too. Just a guess though. Don't want to put words in her mouth.)
Okay guys, listen up: If you've read what I've written about the whole loan modification scam witch hunt in the past, and I've written plenty, then you know that I think it's a big Y2K kind of issue. I mean, if the118 felony counts against Diener were actually 8… then are the 1600 complaints against attorneys that the state bar keeps using to scare us out of hiring an attorney when at risk of foreclosure, actually 96 valid complaints?
Either way, in a state with 36 million people and more foreclosures and distressed homeowners than I would care to count, the relatively insignificant numbers involved here sound awfully Y2K-like to me.
You remember Y2K… like as in… it doesn't exist, or the numbers in which it does exist are so small relative to the country's size and the size and scope of the foreclosure crisis, that we don't need to fear that there's a loan modification scam on every corner in America… which, if you listen to anyone in the administration pontificate this past year, you could easily start to believe was the case.
I'm not saying it is, and I'm not saying it isn't… but if this case is any sort of representative example of what's to come… then I'm dressing up as Edward R. Murrow next year for Halloween. Until then…
Good night… and good luck.
Mandelman out.
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On the rights of women 25 years after the Beijing Declaration on Women
We still have a long way to go
By M. J. Andersen Globe Correspondent,Updated September 17, 2020, 6:23 p.m.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of "We Should All Be Feminists."Janette Pellegrini/Getty Images/file
Earlier this month, the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration on Women passed with little notice. Produced by the United Nations' Fourth World Conference on Women, the document marked what elated advocates saw as a turning point in the struggle for equal rights.
In a historic address, then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton called on all nations to acknowledge that women's rights are inseparable from human rights. Writing in the October issue of The Atlantic, Clinton notes that in the years since, women have realized gains across the globe. Yet a UN Population Fund report warns that the COVID-19 pandemic could prove "catastrophic" for women, with setbacks that include increased caregiving burdens, diminished access to contraceptives, and more intimate-partner violence.
Over the summer, Americans also marked the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which afforded women the right to vote. (In theory, that is: discriminatory state laws thwarted millions of Black women from casting ballots until the 1965 Voting Rights Act was passed.) Many now argue that the vote alone is not enough. To ensure that their voices are truly heard, more women must hold office.
In "The Right to Be Elected: 100 Years Since Women's Suffrage," the Boston Review Forum has called on several scholars to weigh this elusive goal. In her informative lead essay, Jennifer M. Piscopo notes that more than 70 nations have adopted quotas. Some require political parties to run certain percentages of women for office, others to reserve a certain number of legislative positions for them. (The push has been notably strong in Latin America, with Argentina leading the way.)
Hoping to spur such action, the Beijing conference had highlighted women's low representation. Yet today, as Clinton points out, only four countries in the world have gender parity in their legislative bodies.
Like many, she argues that augmenting women's power means increasing their representation in both the public and private sectors. In "Launching While Female: Smashing the System That Holds Women Entrepreneurs Back," Susanne Althoff focuses on women's efforts to establish their own businesses. Based on interviews with more than 100 women and nonbinary entrepreneurs, "Launching While Female" combines keen analysis with tales from the front lines.
Studies show that women-led startups perform better than companies launched by men. Yet investors commonly subject women's projects to higher standards, awarding them less than 3 percent of all US venture capital.
Arlan Hamilton, a Black woman who has gained a following in tech circles, launched her own venture capital fund in 2015. She aimed it at startups led by women, people of color, and those who identify as LGBTQ, after being told once too often that such groups were bad bets. In three years, she raised and doled out more than $4 million to 100 companies, showing on a small scale what was possible.
In Althoff's telling, the entrepreneurial world remains very much a boys' club. Women seeking the kind of support men enjoy are stymied by negative stereotypes and, often, sexual harassment. Not surprisingly, they cite a lack of confidence as one of the greatest hurdles to success. Yet for women, projecting too much self-assurance can alienate investors. To achieve influence, one study showed, they must (unlike men) also be perceived as caring.
One woman who has grown sick of this game is Jennifer Palmieri. The director of communications for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, Palmieri has followed up her best-selling book, "Dear Madam President," with a feminist manifesto. "She Proclaims: Our Declaration of Independence From a Man's World" calls on women to reject masculine definitions of success and to support each other's ambitions.
"No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History," by Gail Collins, offers a few centuries' worth of models. For years now, Collins has been serving up a wry indictment of the sexism pervading the American political system, through both her New York Times column and a growing number of books.
Beginning in the mid-1800s, she writes in her latest, women in their 50s and 60s led the first great push for equal rights. Since then, progress has often depended on breakthroughs by individuals such as Millicent Fenwick, a liberal Republican from New Jersey who was first elected to Congress at 64. Collins notes that when Fenwick took her seat, in 1975, she was one of just 19 women in the US House of Representatives. Those numbers have improved, yet today, women still make up less than a quarter of the lower chamber.
One frequently proposed answer, echoed by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, in "We Should All Be Feminists," is to raise our daughters, and sons, differently. (With Adichie's compact classic, and with thanks to indulgent editors, this column temporarily becomes 4½ Takes.)
Based on a TEDx talk delivered in 2012, "We Should All Be Feminists" is a rallying cry aimed foremost at African audiences. Adichie articulates familiar themes, but with such charm and clarity that her reach extends further, to the universal aspirations of Beijing. We should all read her.
M.J. Andersen is an author and journalist who writes frequently on the arts.