Everyone is into clicks & likes, but my stats just surpassed 30K a day, and I stopped sharing.
HA!
Hate me.
And I did not make even a single pence. <====(a pun to Emperor Pence).
One of my Cyber Goddesses said the following to me: "Ironically people digging on you was what made me think you must be telling the truth😂"
"Hate me, because there is no such thing as bad publicity."
See, no one understands that I really do not care if no one "likes, shares" or comments. Seriously. I do not care if you call me crazy and I most certainly do not care if I make a penny or come up in search results.
I do not care if you share your opinions because I am the original source, rendering all "opinions" moot.
From 2011 https://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2011/04/official-site-for-i-hate-bevelrytrancom.html
I do not care if you do not understand the subject matter.
I do not care if you find me cryptic.
I do not do therapy.
I have a very select, loyal audience and my blog is DOJ jurisdiction.
Ooooo....this sounds like a new picture book. Thanks, Dr. Seuss!
Why do I do it? Because I need to hone in on my theurgy mastery, I like to scrape datacrap, and #igotahotboyfriend. On a mission...
I am doing more than telling the truth, I am bearing witness in the public square because I unlocked the gates of heaven through the extraordinary writs.
Fixing decades of mistakes by politicians of both parties, who put special interests ahead of our people....policies that devastated millions hard working families....China and other nations loot our nation....of course, I am paraphrasing.
Ok, boys and girls, for those of you who are fighting hard in refusing to grasp this, all you have to do is go to the Mueller report index, look for a name or a term, and you can search for the entire video interviews and background on his channel.
That, my dearies, is called a chain of evidence for his SCOTUS case.
I was the first to do it.
My blog is evidence.
I am the original source.
You are watching ground floor building of a blockchain, or what I prefer to call the Quantum Renaissance.
No more secrets.
This is our history and we are all connected in the residuals of the peculiar institution.
With this new focus, you can dive for even more precious pearls of wisdom from your own knowledge.
They are doing live color commentary like a sporting event and I absolutely love it.
They are even doing live commercials for the corporations involved in the launch, claimed as the largest Arab satellite network in the world.
The tech companies are now the new NFL in technology promoting corporate team spirit in open sourced advancement.
I can see the armoralities in colorful heraldry where individuals rally, through their votes, not limited to a thumbs up or down marginalized decision-making process.
No more war because stock market is nothing but a rigged gambling theifdom that is to be dismantled and rebuilt and we can do it blockchain and stop the stealin'.
The following pulled snippet from the CIGIE report pretty much sums it up.
Israel was all up in our U.S. Treasury.
The U.S. Agency for International
Development OIG reported that missions in Egypt, Jordan, and the West Bank and Gaza did not adequately develop or use internal controls to ensure quality data, monitoring, or evaluation.
When such tools were in place, they were not consistently used or they failed to ensure adequate
program management and oversight.
The overall theme I felt was that the entire United States operational system is about to be reconstructed, from IT to persons of ethical integrity who possess passion and intelligence to take of the task of rebuilding the human dominion.
The following is a list of agencies that have been compromised. Links to the individual reports are contained within the report on page 22.
Amtrak
Appalachian Regional Commission
Architect of the Capitol
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Broadcasting Board of Governors
Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled (AbilityOne
Program)
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Corporation for National and Community Service
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
Denali Commission
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Department of Defense
Department of Education
Department of Energy Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of Justice
Department of Labor
Department of State
Department of the Interior
Department of the Treasury
Department of Transportation
Department of Veterans Affairs
Election Assistance Commission
Environmental Protection Agency
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Export-Import Bank of the United States
Farm Credit Administration
Federal Election Commission
Federal Housing Finance Agency
Federal Labor Relations Authority
Federal Maritime Commission Federal Trade Commission
General Services Administration
Government Publishing Office
Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council
Internal Revenue Service (Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration)
Library of Congress National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Archives and Records Administration
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Labor Relations Board
National Science Foundation
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Office of Personnel Management
Peace Corps
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Railroad Retirement Board
Securities and Exchange Commission
Small Business Administration
Social Security Administration
Special Inspector General for Troubled Asset Relief Program
U.S. Agency for International Development
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
U.S. International Trade Commission
U.S. Postal Service
Our entire institutional belief systems have been manipulated, from how we are instructed at birth on how to treat humans all the way to how we continue to treat humans throughout history. Welcome to the realities of child welfare.
The sentence by U.S. District Judge Matthew Leitman for stealing more than $23,000 from taxpayers by adding a ghost employee to his Senate payroll was a fraction of the maximum 12 months in prison sought by federal prosecutors.
The conviction scuttled the redemption story of a Highland Park Democrat who overcame a teenage conviction for armed robbery and rose to statewide public office.
A stoic Johnson apologized to constituents and relatives for breaching the public's trust by hiring friend Glynis Thornton for a no-show job. He also apologized for adding his name to the list of dozens of Metro Detroit public officials and businessmen convicted of corruption in recent years.
"I should have never hired Glynis Thornton. That is my failure, and it's on me," Johnson told the judge.
The judge called the crime a serious offense but was impressed by Johnson mentoring strangers and colleagues and how he educated himself and became a state senator despite a teenage felony conviction.
"I personally believe you have learned your lesson," the judge said.
Johnson also must serve 90 days home confinement, spend two years on supervised release and pay at least $23,134 restitution to the state. He also must serve 480 hours of community service in his former Senate district, which encompasses northeast Detroit, Highland Park, Hamtramck, Harper Woods and all five Grosse Pointe communities.
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"That's my way of trying to make the world right," the judge told Johnson.
Prosecutors wanted Johnson to spend up to one year in federal prison, saying he cheated taxpayers and stole money to pay off debts, while his defense lawyer pushed for probation and home confinement.
“Public officials, especially those elected by the people, cannot treat the people’s money as their own,” U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider said in a statement. “The defendant in this case treated taxpayer money as his own, to repay his personal debt. Such an egregious abuse of power will not be tolerated.”
Johnson was elected despite a teenage conviction for armed robbery, then amassed the worst attendance record in the state Legislature. From 2010 to 2017, no state legislator had skipped more votes than Johnson, who missed 712 of 5,115 roll calls, according to data compiled by MichiganVotes.org.
Johnson's public service was commendable and outweighed his rap sheet and crime, his lawyer said. The former state senator was instrumental in helping Highland Park out of insolvency and spared six Detroit public schools from closure while pushing 31 bills through the state Legislature, an enviable record, his lawyer argued.
Johnson is the highest-ranking public official in Michigan convicted of a corruption crime since ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced to 28 years in prison in the City Hall corruption scandal in 2013.
“Senator Johnson made a conscious decision to violate the trust and confidence of the constituents that he was elected to represent,” IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Manny Muriel said in a statement.
State law bars anyone from serving in a state or local office for 20 years after being convicted of a felony involving “dishonesty, deceit, fraud or a breach of the public trust.” Voters agreed to toughen the state constitutional language in the wake of Kilpatrick’s case.
In March, Johnson struck a plea deal, admitting he conspired to steal money from a federally funded program, a five-year felony.
In exchange, prosecutors dropped a second, 10-year theft charge.
Johnson stole more than $23,000 from taxpayers between March 2014 and January 2015, according to prosecutors.
He was accused of putting the ghost employee on his payroll so he could repay loans. By 2013, he faced mounting debts, including his son’s private-school tuition at University of Detroit Jesuit High School, his own tuition at the University of Detroit-Mercy and a debt to a political consulting firm, prosecutors said.
Thornton, the ghost employee, was ensnared in an earlier corruption scandal involving the state-run Education Achievement Authority in Detroit.
Johnson will pay at least half of the amount of stolen money Thursday, his lawyer said.
Always remember, they take a village, then plunder its most precious treasures.
Department of Justice Begins Third Distribution of Funds Recovered Through Asset Forfeiture to Compensate Victims of Bernard Madoff Fraud Scheme
The Department of Justice today announced that on Nov. 29, the Madoff Victim Fund (MVF) began its third distribution of $695.4 million in funds forfeited to the U.S. Government in connection with the Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (BLMIS) fraud scheme, bringing the total distributed to nearly $2 billion. These funds will be sent to over 27,000 victims across the globe, bringing their total recovery to 56.65 percent. This distribution represents the third in a series of payments that will eventually return over $4 billion to victims as compensation for losses they suffered from the collapse of the BLMIS. The MVF has received over 65,000 petitions from victims in 136 countries.
Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman for the Southern District of New York made the announcement.
“Bernie Madoff’s scheme devastated retirement and pension funds, charitable organizations, and thousands of individual investors spread across 49 States, the District of Columbia, and 121 other countries,” said Assistant Attorney General Benczkowski. “The payments announced today could not have happened without the prosecutors’ relentless pursuit of proceeds of Madoff’s fraud through civil forfeiture—and, as a result of their efforts and those of the Criminal Division’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section, victims who would not have seen a dime in other compensation programs will now recover more than half of their losses.”
“Bernie Madoff committed history’s largest Ponzi scheme,” said U.S. Attorney Berman. “This Office prosecuted Madoff and others who helped perpetrate his fraud, and we assisted in recovering billions of dollars in proceeds from the fraud. Today’s payment of more than $690 million is this Office’s third installment in a series of distributions that represent our ongoing commitment to find relief for victims of Madoff’s heinous crimes.”
“While today’s distribution of funds is indeed significant in scope, we understand no amount of money could ever restore the damage done by Madoff as a result of his selfish behavior and unforgivable financial crimes,” said FBI Assistant Director William F. Sweeney, Jr. “To all of his many victims and their families, we realize this gesture may not provide the consolation necessary to remove the pain and suffering you have been brought to bear, but we are hopeful it provides some sense of relief, and we remain committed to achieve justice for all victims of inexcusable financial crimes.”
For decades, Bernard L. Madoff used his position as Chairman of BLMIS, the investment advisory business he founded in 1960, to steal billions from his clients. On March 12, 2009, Madoff pleaded guilty to 11 federal felonies, admitting that he had turned his wealth management business into the world’s largest Ponzi scheme, benefitting himself, his family and select members of his inner circle. On June 29, 2009, U.S. District Judge Denny Chin sentenced Madoff to 150 years in prison for running the largest fraudulent scheme in history. Of the approximately $4.05 billion that will be made available to victims, approximately $2.2 billion was collected as part of the historic civil forfeiture recovery from the estate of deceased Madoff investor Jeffry Picower. An additional $1.7 billion was collected as part of a Deferred Prosecution Agreement with JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. and civilly forfeited in a parallel action. The remaining funds were collected through a civil forfeiture action against investor Carl Shapiro and his family, and from civil and criminal forfeiture actions against Bernard L. Madoff, Peter B. Madoff and their co-conspirators.
The MVF’s payouts would not have been possible without the extraordinary efforts of the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, and the FBI in the prosecution of these crimes and the recovery of assets supporting the forfeiture in this case. The MVF is overseen by Richard Breeden, former Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, in his capacity as Special Master appointed by the Department of Justice to assist in connection with the victim remission proceedings.
More information about MVF and its compensation to victims of BLMIS is available on the MVF website at www.madoffvictimfund.com, such as eligibility criteria, process updates, and frequently asked questions. Further questions may be directed to the MVF at 866-624-3670 or info@madoffvictimfund.com.
Much love the Michigan Eastern District U.S. Attorney's Office and the Detroit Federal Bureau of Investigation to stop the stealin' of children, land & votes.
Thanks to a newly approved ordinance, it may be easier for low-income Detroit residents to apply for poverty tax exemption — and avoid foreclosure — starting next year. But before that kicks in, take note: There's still time to apply for an exemption on 2018 taxes before the Dec. 10 deadline.
In July, the American Civil Liberties Union and Detroit settled a lawsuit that claimed the city's poverty exemption program was tough to apply for and wasn't well-publicized. Detroit will have to "streamline" its application process and provide more notice to low-income residents. The new ordinance solidifies those requirements into law and expands upon them.
Here's what you need to know about applying before Dec. 10 and beyond:
What is a poverty tax exemption?
Homeowners pay property taxes. But some low-income homeowners may struggle to pay their property taxes, leading to foreclosure.
Poverty tax exemption allows low-income homeowners to get some or all of their taxes exempted to help lift that burden. In Detroit, the exemptions come through the Homeowners Property Tax Assistance Program.
Do I qualify?
If you live alone in your home, you must make $16,660 a year or less to receive a 100 percent exemption. You must make $19,160 a year or less for a 50 percent, or partial, exemption.
If you think you might be eligible, you're strongly encouraged to go to a workshop led by a nonprofit agency, which will help fill out the application, said Alexa Eisenberg, a member of the coalition that helped draft the ordinance. Workshop leaders will help you square away the application, get it notarized and turn it in for you.
Workshops are available at the following dates and locations:
District 1 and 2: Monday, Dec. 3, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. at Focus Hope, 1400 Oakman Blvd.
District 3 and 4: Wednesday, Dec. 5, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. at Alkebulan Village, 7701 Harper Ave.
District 5: Tuesday, Dec. 4t, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. at Central Detroit Christian, 1550 Taylor St.
District 6: Friday, Dec. 7, 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. at Patton Recreation Center, 2301 Woodmere St.
District 7: Thursday, Dec. 6, 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. at Suzanne Cody Rouge Community Resource Center, 19321 W Chicago St.
Otherwise, see the 2018 application here. You will need to print it, fill it out, get it notarized and turn it in to the address on the first page of the form: OCFO – Office of the Assessor, Coleman A. Young Municipal Center, 2 Woodward Ave., Room 804, Detroit, Michigan 48226. You might consider mailing it with a return receipt requested.
To ask the City of Detroit questions about the application, call 313-224-6214 or 313-628-0723.
What do I need for the application?
You will need ALL of the following items and should bring them to the workshop, according to the Quicken Loans Community Fund:
Deed for the home in your name
Current ID for all adults over 18
Proof of income for everyone over 18 (Ex.: W2’s, paystubs, SSI/SSD, food stamps, etc.)
Proof of expenses (Ex.: current utility bills,tax payment plan, medical bills, credit card bills, etc.)
Financial Assets (Ex.: Bank statement, 401k, insurance settlement, etc.)
Report cards for school age children
Notarized letter of help from anyone who is assisting you financially
2017 Federal & State income tax return
Do I have to get it notarized?
Yes. But starting in fiscal year 2019, when the new ordinance takes effect, you may be exempt if you're of advanced age, provide caretaker services to a dependent or have limited physical mobility.
Is there an application fee?
No.
When will I know the status of my application?
Sometime before or at the beginning of the new year, you'll get notice via mail of the status of your exemption.
To be clear, the Dec. 10 application round is to exempt your 2018 property taxes. If you already paid, you will get a refund for your exemption.
Will I have to apply again next year?
Yes. Exemptions only cover one tax year at a time. However, the new ordinance will allow some people who have received the exemption in past years to do an abridged version of the application. Ask about that next year.
Poor Wilbur Ross had a grueling time in hearings today House Oversight Committee on the U.S. Census.
Focus was on the question of citizenship on the census, which is currently in SCOTUS.
The members asked interesting questions like why does it budget $100 for each U.S. citizen to collect data in the age of technology.
Some asked about the reliability of the survey when people are not willing to respond to such invasive questions.
Census data are used for redistricting, so, when you have a situation of gerrymandering due to fraudulent property tax and mortgage foreclosures, you have corrupt data, based upon an exogenous variable called forced migration.
Then, you have the issue of homelessnesss.
"The Poors" are not willing to provide information on who is laying up on their sofas, for fear of losing their benefits, due to manufactured poverty.
Then, you have that one issue no one wants to talk about, children.
What happens with the identities of children whose parents rights were terminated?
What happens to former identities of children who have been adopted?
Do the corporate parents report on children in their care, in their facilities?
What about immigrants under student VISAs?
What about college students?
What about DACA?
What about the children's trusts?
Oh, wait, that is on the litigation menu.
Well, all I can say is that it was a really good thing none of the members in the hearing dared speak into the record those dreadful words when it come the maintaining their secret registries of tiny humans they like to traffic.
See, there are lots of databases which are supposed to track the kids, but, they are so jacked up, being private and all, designed specifically to do predictive modeling crap, that they no longer function as heraldry of the legacies of the children because they like to strip the civil assets through civil forfeiture, as a private, corporate parent, that no one knows what is going on with the children of "The Poors", (always said with clinched teeth).
You have SACWIS, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Central Registries and you have CODIS.
Then you have public school educational records and medical records, which, by design, cannot be accesses because these are privatized databases.
I could continue, but I believe I have made my point that this entire system of keeping track of legacies is horrific.
It is time for the Quantum Renaissance and blockchain everything.
We have the technology, you know.
Wilbur is a proverbial representation of the entire Department of Commerce, which is over the selling of chattel, including patents and tiny humans, modern day slavery and human trafficking.
That budget is for the private contractors who are going to be doing data scraping for redistricting, surveying real property for gerrymandering.
Cummings pulled it out of Wilbur that Jeff Sessions was concerned about the preservation of voting rights.
(January 2007) The U.S. Census Bureau plans to eliminate the “foster child” relationship category on its questionnaires for the 2010 Census and the American Community Survey. They will be counted with other children, but foster children’s characteristics as a group will not be available.
Census Bureau officials had set a January deadline to approve the content of questions on the 2010 Census short form that goes to every U.S. household. Decisions about the 2010 Census form also affect the American Community Survey (ACS). The census survey is intended to replace the census long form, so the two data sets must be comparable.
Bureau officials said they had to eliminate one of the 15 relationship-to-householder categories because they had adopted a new questionnaire design in hopes of improving response rates and accuracy.1 In the census data collection process, the form designates one person in each household, usually the one who fills out the questionnaire, as the householder. Everyone else must be listed in a category that describes his or her relationship to the householder, such as spouse or boarder. “Foster child,” which had been included with roomers and boarders in the 1990 Census, became its own category in the 2000 Census.
The elimination of the foster-child category was among a number of proposals for census-form revisions on the agenda in November at the Bureau’s Joint Advisory Committee meeting. The Census Bureau is required to give Congress a list of topics it plans to ask about by April 1, which gives legislators a chance to voice their opinions.
Census officials said they decided to drop the foster child category because it had the fewest responses of any relationship option in the 2000 Census, and because census numbers do not match figures provided by state governments to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Census Bureau figures count about 50 percent to 60 percent of the number of foster children included in the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS).
The 2000 Census 100 percent file shows 334,974 children in the foster child category,2 compared with 544,000 in AFCARS in September 2000.3 The 2005 ACS shows 307,000 children in foster care compared with 513,000 in the 2005 AFCARS report.
The figures provided by states include about 24,000 foster children aged 18 to 20, and census numbers only include foster children under age 18, but that explains only a small part of the difference between the two data sets. In addition, about 100,000 foster children in 2005 lived in group homes and institutions, which the Census Bureau classifies as group quarters.4 The Census Bureau does not identify foster children as such if they live in group quarters and not in households.
The rest of the gap between the two sets of data, experts believe, comes about because census counts miss and misclassify many foster children. Householders may not list foster children on their questionnaires: They often are in foster homes for only a short time, and the census respondent may not feel the foster child is part of the household. Or householders may list foster children in a different category. Because many are in “kinship care” with grandparents, aunts and uncles, or other family members, foster children may be listed as relatives on the census form. In 2005, according to state records, about a quarter of children in foster care (roughly 125,000 children) were in kinship care.5
Census Bureau surveys and the decennial headcount seem to capture a consistent proportion of children in foster care each year. But whether those numbers are representative of the foster child population is less clear. Analysis shows that data captured by the Census Bureau adequately reflects some characteristics of children in foster care, but not others.
In terms of age and gender distribution, 2005 American Community Survey estimates look very similar to state administrative data from AFCARS, especially considering the sampling errors in the census survey that are associated with these small categories. The proportions of foster children aged 15 through 18 in the ACS are slightly lower than the proportions in AFCARS, probably because the census survey does not account for the many teens in foster care who live in group homes.
There is a bigger gap between the two data sources for some racial and ethnic groups. About a third of the foster children counted by states are non-Hispanic black, compared with about a quarter of those in the 2005 American Community Survey. The opposite is true for Hispanics: State figures indicate that less than a fifth of foster children are Hispanic, but the Census Bureau reported that nearly one in four is Hispanic. Some of the discrepancy could be due to the fact that questions about race and Hispanic origin are not worded the same from state to state, in contrast to the uniform wording of census questions.
As the table (PDF: 34KB) shows, in general, the distribution of foster children by state in the American Community Survey looks similar to that in the AFCARS database, despite differing estimates of population size. For 42 states and the District of Columbia, the difference in proportions was less than one percentage point. The eight states with larger differences are California, Indiana, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Georgia, and Virginia. Of course, the ACS estimates have large sampling errors, and the difference between the two datasets in part reflects the small proportion of foster children in many states.
Foster children are a population of special concern because they often have been abused or neglected, then placed under government care. Many fall behind in school, and often have a host of other socio-emotional problems. State records on children in foster care focus heavily on their experience in the child welfare system. They have little information on the characteristics that census numbers are supposed to shed light upon, such as foster children’s soci/>
In addition, access to the AFCARS data is not now readily available, aside from a series of key tables that are available on the federal Health and Human Services Department website, because it requires sophisticated programming capability. If the data on foster children are eliminated from the Census and the ACS as the Census Bureau plans, it suggests that we need to do more to make the data from other sources such as AFCARS more accessible.
It is with the greatest joy that I announce the next self-extraction from society, the one, the only, Alan Krueger, the creator of predictive modeling crap of modern human trafficking, the father of privatization public policy in those crappy socioeconomic transposable models, my archnemisis.
He is the one who came up with maximization of revenues in child welfare, for which all his crap is used in all the universities because he wrote the foreign textbooks and foreign theories being taught throughout the United States as some really great crap.
He promulgated the same crap to destroy the lives of the people of Russia.
Harris and Krueger will give their takes on “An Equitable and Sustainable Future of Work” at Lehigh on April 11 after the university and South Bethlehem were selected to be the primary host in the United States .
This man is the progenitor of the theoretical base of the privatization of Michigan because it started in child welfare.
Michigan was the state that transposed the his predictive modeling crap from child welfare privatization to the cities, starting with Detroit, which is why he was pushing TARP.
He is Public Private Partnerships.
He is the Michigan Emergency Manager Law.
He is Detroit Bankruptcy.
He is the Grand Bargain.
He is the Detroit Land Bank Authority.
He is forced migration.
He is the stripper of voting rights.
He is the destructor, not instructor, of the legacies for a civil society.
I want his true legacy of stealin' the children, the land and the votes to be heralded through out the ages.
Welcome to the Quantum Renaissance for the Celestial Goddess cometh, but only after her Errant Knight releases her from the Woodshed.
Alan Krueger, a Princeton University economics professor who advised U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, died over the weekend at the age of 58, the university said on Monday.
“It is with tremendous sadness we share that Professor Alan B. Krueger, beloved husband, father, son, brother, and Princeton professor of economics took his own life over the weekend. The family requests the time and space to grieve and remember him. In lieu of flowers, we encourage those wishing to honor Alan to make a contribution to the charity of their choice,” the Krueger family said in a statement.
“Alan was recognized as a true leader in his field, known and admired for both his research and teaching,” Princeton University said in a statement.
Krueger served as chief economist for the U.S. Department of Labor during the Clinton administration and chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers during Obama’s time in office.
He had taught economics at Princeton since 1987. Last week, Krueger gave a lecture at Stanford University on income distribution and labor market regulation called “Why is Basic Universal Income So Controversial?”
An avid music fan, Krueger posted about rock legends including Bruce Springsteen on Twitter and wove David Bowie into his lectures. He made this passion the subject of his latest research in his forthcoming book on economics and the music industry, due for release in June.
Krueger received numerous awards, including the Kershaw Prize by the Association for Public Policy and Management in 1997 for distinguished contributions to public policy analysis by someone under the age of 40.
He is survived by his wife, Lisa, and two children.
Day 2: How to save "The Poors" in bloodless warzones with Public Private Partnerships.
Day 3: How to maximize revenues through child welfare trust funds, Social Impact Bonds.
You people thought I spoke in jest when I said these people use predictive modeling crap to come up with revenue maximization schemes after they complete stealin' the children, land and votes. These are your new, Public Private Partnerships that are privately taking over our U.S. government because we are really, really dumb and greedy by allowing children to grow up in poverty. These are the people who come up with the fantastic innovations to help "The Poors" that they intentionally made poor by stealin'. Thank you for allow me to vent
John Paul Manuel, Chief of Staff for Michael F.Q. San Nicolas, Guam, was the one who accepted the unreported cash, which he then, turned around and used to book the hotel for the Member and his lover, who more than likely is a consensual woman over the age of 21 years.
Considering the fact that we are dealing with campaign funds, I am just going to go out there on a limb and say that the Guam Delegate to Congress, more than likely had no idea that the hotel room was booked with undocumented cash as a campaign contribution, because he probably assumed it was his personal credit card or, in the purpose of business, his congressional office credit card, because he did end up hiring as a new staffer.
I will even go so far as to allege, just because I know how these people think, that the hotel room was set up with cameras, and there is probably a secret romantic tape, ready to be dropped, in hopes of distracting the masses with the thought of more congressional porn, so as not to be indicted for blackmail and other nefarious charges, when it comes to money laundering through the Member's congressional campaign, gifts of lucrative fake ass contracts, and, more than likely, the Congressional Credit Union.
The only problem in this absolutely ingenious, transposable model is that there exists a significant distinction between a congressional tryst and an epic romance, whereby that difference is that the latter involves a Quantum Renaissance.
Pursuant to Committee Rule 7, the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Committee on Ethics (Committee) determined to release the following statement:
In accordance with House Rule XI, clause 3, and Committee Rules 10(a)(2) and 18, the Committee unanimously voted on March 11, 2020, to establish an Investigative Subcommittee. Pursuant to the Committee’s action, the Investigative Subcommittee shall have jurisdiction to determine whether Delegate Michael F.Q. San Nicolas may have: engaged in a sexual relationship with an individual on his congressional staff; converted campaign funds to personal use; accepted improper and/or excessive campaign contributions; reported campaign disbursements that may not be legitimate and verifiable campaign expenditures attributable to bona fide campaign or political purposes; omitted required information from or disclosed false information in reports filed with the Federal Election Commission; made false statements to government investigators or agencies; and/or improperly interfered or attempted to interfere in a government investigation of related allegations in violation of House Rules, law, regulations, or other standards of conduct.
The Honorable Grace Meng will serve as Chairwoman of the Investigative Subcommittee, and the Honorable Jackie Walorski will serve as the Ranking Member. The other two members of the Investigative Subcommittee are the Honorable Darren Soto and the Honorable Vicky Hartzler.
The Committee has determined to take this action following receipt of a referral from the Office of Congressional Ethics regarding this matter. The Committee notes that the mere fact of establishing an Investigative Subcommittee does not itself indicate that any violation has occurred.
No other public comment will be made on this matter except in accordance with Committee rules. Pursuant to House Rule XI, clause 3(b)(8)(B)(iii), and Committee Rule 17A(f)(1), no documents will be released at this time.
WASHINGTON – The House Committee on Ethics announced Friday it was moving forward with an investigation into Guam's lone member of Congress over allegations he had sexual relations with a staff member and accepted improper political contributions.
The member, Del. Michael F.Q. San Nicolas, said he was ready to "disprove the allegations."
The bipartisan panel had been looking at the allegations against San Nicolas since last fall and decided in March to launch a full investigation. News of that unanimous vote to move forward was announced Friday by the committee in a news release.
The release said the panel would probe the freshman Democrat for engaging in a sexual relationship with a member of his congressional staff; converting campaign funds to personal use; accepting improper and/or excessive campaign contributions; and reporting campaign disbursements that may not be legitimate and verifiable campaign expenditures.
U.S. Capitol Building
The panel will also probe whether San Nicolas omitted required information from – or disclosed false information in – reports filed with the Federal Election Commission; made false statements to government investigators or agencies; and/or improperly interfered or attempted to interfere in a government investigation of related allegations, according to the release.
The issue was referred to the committee by the Office of Congressional Ethics, a separate, non-partisan body of the House.
The release does not list the specific circumstances of the allegations.
'Baseless' claim:Complaint filed on alleged illegal use of campaign funds, San Nicolas says it's baseless
But in September, San Nicolas' former manager of his 2018 congressional campaign, John Paul L. Manuel, filed a compliant with the Guam Election Commission alleging the delegate received a $10,000 contribution from a Guam businessman – an amount above the legal campaign limit, according to the Pacific Daily News in Guam.
Manuel also alleged San Nicolas reimbursed himself from federal campaign funds after using money to carry on an extra-marital affair with a woman he later hired as a member of his congressional staff. He also alleged San Nicolas forged his own father's signature on campaign checks, the newspaper reported.
"This is just a part of the process that we are required to go through in order to disprove the allegations made against us," San Nicolas said in a statement released Friday to USA TODAY through his office. "We will continue to cooperate and thank the people for their patience and support during this time."
The House banned members from having sexual relations with their staff members in 2018 as part of sweeping ethics rules adopted after several lawmakers resigned over accusation of sexual harassment.
The probe will be led by two Democrats – Grace Meng of New York and Darren Soto of Florida – and two Republicans - Jackie Walorski of Indiana and Vicky Hartzler of Missouri.
Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development Assistance and Training (OPDAT)
Washington, District of Columbia
Announcement #: 19-CRM-OPD-015
Application Deadline: February 25, 2019
The Attorney Advisor (Program Manager) will perform the following duties: serve as a legal expert in developing and revising curriculum for the Judicial Studies Institute (JSI) responsive to judges’ needs, to include course development, course materials, and identifying, hiring and, supervising teaching resources; develop and maintain relationships with JSI graduates to ensure follow-up and build additional capacity as multipliers; prepare and oversee budgets; represent JSI at informational meetings with foreign delegations; lead in the formulation and preparation of OPDAT regional or country-specific program funding proposals and implementation plans; develop program measures and oversees program execution to ensure compliance with department and partner agency policy requirements; identify and select instructors and technical advisers to support program objectives; work with program personnel in compiling regional and country specific briefing materials and data call requests covering OPDAT development assistance and training programs; facilitate and/or assist in the preparation of official correspondence for OPDAT, DOJ, and partner agencies, as well as foreign government officials dealing with development assistance and training programs and matters.
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to ensure that the United States achieves the most beneficial economic use of its resources, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1.Definitions.
For purposes of this order:
(a)
"Privatization" means the disposition or transfer of an infrastructure asset, such as by sale or by long-term lease, from a State or local government to a private party.
(b)
"Infrastructure asset" means any asset financed in whole or in part by the Federal Government and needed for the functioning of the economy. Examples of such assets include, but are not limited to: roads, tunnels, bridges, electricity supply facilities, mass transit, rail transportation, airports, ports, waterways, water supply facilities, recycling and wastewater treatment facilities, solid waste disposal facilities, housing, schools, prisons, and hospitals.
(c)
"Originally authorized purposes" means the general objectives of the original grant program; however, the term is not intended to include every condition required for a grantee to have obtained the original grant.
(d)
"Transfer price" means:
(i)
the amount paid or to be paid by a private party for an infrastructure asset, if the asset is transferred as a result of competitive bidding; or
(ii)
the appraised value of an infrastructure asset, as determined by the head of the executive department or agency and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, if the asset is not transferred as a result of competitive bidding.
(e)
"State and local governments" means the government of any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States, and any county, municipality, city, town, township, local public authority, school district, special district, intrastate district, regional or interstate governmental entity, council of governments, and any agency or instrumentality of a local government, and any federally recognized Indian Tribe.
Sec. 2.Fundamental Principles.
Executive departments and agencies shall be guided by the following objectives and principles:
(a)
Adequate and well maintained infrastructure is critical to economic growth. Consistent with the principles of federalism enumerated in Executive Order No. 12612, and in order to allow the private sector to provide for infrastructure modernization and expansion, State and local governments should have greater freedom to privatize infrastructure assets.
(b)
Private enterprise and competitively driven improvements are the foundation of our Nation's economy and economic growth. Federal financing of infrastructure assets should not act as a barrier to the achievement of economic efficiencies through additional private market financing or competitive practices, or both.
(c)
State and local governments are in the best position to assess and respond to local needs. State and local governments should, subject to assuring continued compliance with Federal requirements that public use be on reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms, have maximum possible freedom to make decisions concerning the maintenance and disposition of their federally financed infrastructure assets.
(d)
User fees are generally more efficient than general taxes as a means to support infrastructure assets. Privatization transactions should be structured so as not to result in unreasonable increases in charges to users.
Sec. 3.Privatization Initiative.
To the extent permitted by law, the head of each executive department and agency shall undertake the following actions:
(a)
Review those procedures affecting the management and disposition of federally financed infrastructure assets owned by State and local governments and modify those procedures to encourage appropriate privatization of such assets consistent with this order;
(b)
Assist State and local governments in their efforts to advance the objectives of this order; and
(c)
Approve State and local governments' requests to privatize infrastructure assets, consistent with the criteria in section 4 of this order and, where necessary, grant exceptions to the disposition requirements of the "Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants and Cooperative Agreements to State and Local Governments" common rule, or other relevant rules or regulations, for infrastructure assets; provided that the transfer price shall be distributed, as paid, in the following manner:
(i)
State and local governments shall first recoup in full the unadjusted dollar amount of their portion of total project costs (including any transaction and fix-up costs they incur) associated with the infrastructure asset involved;
(ii)
if proceeds remain, then the Federal Government shall recoup in full the amount of Federal grant awards associated with the infrastructure asset, less the applicable share of accumulated depreciation on such asset (calculated using the Internal Revenue Service accelerated depreciation schedule for the categories of assets in question); and
(iii)
finally, the State and local governments shall keep any remaining proceeds.
Sec. 4.Criteria.
To the extent permitted by law, the head of an executive department or agency shall approve a request in accordance with section 3(c) of this order only if the grantee:
(a)
Agrees to use the proceeds described in section 3(c)(iii) of this order only for investment in additional infrastructure assets (after public notice of the proposed investment), or for debt or tax reduction; and
(b)
Demonstrates that a market mechanism, legally enforceable agreement, or regulatory mechanism will ensure that:
(i)
the infrastructure asset or assets will continue to be used for their originally authorized purposes, as long as needed for those purposes, even if the purchaser becomes insolvent or is otherwise hindered from fulfilling the originally authorized purposes; and
(ii)
user charges will be consistent with any current Federal conditions that protect users and the public by limiting the charges.
Sec. 5.Government-wide, Coordination and Review.
In implementing Executive Order Nos. 12291 and 12498 and OMB Circular No. A-19, the Office of Management and Budget, to the extent permitted by law and consistent with the provisions of those authorities, shall take action to ensure that the policies of the executive departments and agencies are consistent with the principles, criteria, and requirements of this order. The Office of Management and Budget shall review the results of implementing this order and report thereon to the President 1 year after the date of this order.
Sec. 6.Preservation of Existing Authority.
Nothing in this order is in any way intended to limit any existing authority of the heads of executive departments and agencies to approve privatization proposals that are otherwise consistent with law.
Sec. 7.Judicial Review.
This order is intended only to improve the internal management of the executive-branch, and is not intended to create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable by a party against the United States, its agencies or instrumentalities, its officers or employees, or any other persons.
