The Tale Of The Electoral College: The Predictive Modeling Crappers Of Tyler Are Not Having A Very Good Lead Up To The Presidential Election - "Drats, Hacked Again"

Tyler Technologies is not in a happy place at the moment, but I am having a schadenfreude moment, so it does not matter.

Now, I want to know about these databases and if there are any land patents with fancy financial instruments associated, because this is what I call some serious gerrymandering, because you know you have to have your human asset management databases up to date before you run your magical plans for the outcome of an election, at least 30 days before the election, to make sure you got your psephological, resegregationary #coloredrevolution fairy talking points polished.

NOTE TO SELF: COME UP WITH A MODERN SOOTHESAYING AI TERM FOR GERRYMANDERING & ITS DIRTY DATA CENSUS OPS

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Suspicious logins reported after ransomware attack on US govt contractor

Ransomware attack on Tyler Technologies is looking worse by the day.

Customers of Tyler Technologies, one of the biggest software providers for the US state and federal government, are reporting finding suspicious logins and previously unseen remote access tools (RATs) on their networks and servers.

The reports come days after Tyler Technologies admitted last week to suffering a ransomware attack.

The Texas-based company said that an intruder gained access to its internal network on the morning of Wednesday, September 23.

The intruder installed ransomware that locked access to some of the company's internal documents.

Tyler initially played down the incident

Tyler played down the incident and said that only its internal corporate network and phone systems were impacted.

Its cloud infrastructure, where the company hosts its customer-facing applications, was not impacted, the company said in a statement published on its website and via emails sent to customers last week.

But over the weekend, the situation changed as Tyler made headway investigating the incident. The company changed its statement on Saturday.

"Because we have received reports of several suspicious logins to client systems, we believe precautionary password resets should be implemented," the company said.

"If clients haven't already done so, we strongly recommend that you reset passwords on your remote network access for Tyler staff and the credentials that Tyler personnel would use to access your applications, if applicable." [emphasis Tyler's]

Customers report remote access tools on their servers

At the same, some of Tyler's customers also reported seeing new software installed on their systems.

"If you're a Tyler customer check your servers for Bomgar that they installed," wrote one of many users on Reddit over the weekend.

A similar report followed on Monday from cyber-security training outfit SANS.

"One of our readers, a Tyler Technologies's customer, reported to us that he found this morning the Bomgar client (BeyondTrust) installed on one of his servers," said Xavier Mertens, one of the SANS ISC handlers.

According to users, Tyler uses the Bomgar client to manage its servers, but some reports claim the software was not installed prior to this weekend, prompting some to panic.

While Tyler insists in its updated statement that the attack was aimed at its internal system, customers now believe attackers might have gained access to passwords for Tyler's web-hosted infrastructure that were stored on the company's local network — and attackers are now escalating access to Tyler's client networks.

While the Tyler Technologies name might not say anything to the regular American, the ransomware attack on this company's network might quietly become one of the biggest cyber-attacks of the year, if indeed attackers gained access to passwords for customer networks and the Reddit and SANS reports aren't isolated cases.

According to its website, Tyler provides more than 50 types of web-based applications to the US public sector, such as student and school management software, public transport management solutions, jail management, courts and jury management systems, cyber-security solutions, tax and billing software, fire and EMS solutions, and entire city staff management systems, known as "Munis," just to name a few.

According to Reuters, which first broke the story about the ransomware attack, some of Tyler's software is also scheduled to be used in the upcoming US presidential election — for aggregating voting results from other sources into central dashboards."

The gang behind the Tyler attack was identified as the RansomExx group.

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Government software provider Tyler Technologies hit by ransomware

Leading government technology services provider Tyler Technologies has suffered a ransomware attack that has disrupted its operations.

Tyler Technologies is one of the largest U.S. software development and technology services companies dedicated to the public sector.

With a forecasted $1.2 billion in revenue for 2020 and 5,500 employees, Tyler Technologies provides technical services for local governments in many states in the USA.

Starting earlier today, Tyler Technologies' website began to display a maintenance message, and their Twitter account tweeted that they were having technical difficulties.

In an email seen by BleepingComputer, Tyler Technologies CIO Matt Bieri emailed clients stating that they are investigating a cyberattack and have notified law enforcement.

"I am writing to make you aware of a security incident involving unauthorized access to our internal phone and information technology systems by an unknown third party. We are treating this matter with the highest priority and working with independent IT experts to conduct a thorough investigation and response."

"Early this morning, we became aware that an unauthorized intruder had disrupted access to some of our internal systems. Upon discovery and out of an abundance of caution, we shut down points of access to external systems and immediately began investigating and remediating the problem. We have since engaged outside IT security and forensics experts to conduct a detailed review and help us securely restore affected equipment. We are implementing enhanced monitoring systems, and we have notified law enforcement," Bieri stated in an email to clients.

Bieri also stated that current investigations indicate that the attack was limited to Tyler Technologies' local network.

In posts to the Municipal Information Systems Association of California (MISAC) forum shared with BleepingComputer, local government employees were told that Tyler Technologies suffered a ransomware attack affecting their phone ticketing system and support systems.

"We were told this morning from one of the support techs that they got hit with ransomware early this morning on their corporate networks. Don't have any other details at this point other than support is down until they access their systems," one local municipality employee posted to the MISAC forum.

Another MISAC user stated that they heard the attack was limited to Tyler Technologies' internal network and did not affect clients.

If you have first-hand information about this or other unreported cyberattacks, you can confidentially contact us on Signal at +16469613731 or on Wire at @lawrenceabrams-bc.

Tyler technologies hit by RansomExx ransomware

Cybersecurity sources familiar with the attack told BleepingComputer that Tyler Technologies suffered an attack by the RansomExx ransomware.

 

RansomExx is a rebranded version of the Defray777 ransomware and has seen increased activity since June when they attacked the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), Konica Minolta, and most recently IPG Photonics.

While BleepingComputer has not obtained the ransom note, we found an encrypted file uploaded to VirusTotal today related to this attack.

This encrypted file has an extension of '.tylertech911-f1e1a2ac,' which includes Tyler Technologies' name and is the same format used in other RansomExx attacks.

RansomExx does not have a ransomware data leak site, but that does not mean they do not steal unencrypted files before deploying their ransomware.

BleepingComputer has contacted Tyler Technologies with further questions but has not received a response.

Thx to Fate112 for the tip!

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The Tale Of The Electoral College: Tyler Technologies Is Not Havin A Very Good Week With Its Crappy Predictive Modeling Electoral College Databases

Tyler Technologies is not having a very good week.

Wanna know why?

Because, "She was hoisted by her own petard, again."

IDIOTS!

Meet the Electoral College Corporate Parent of the vote, because in order to vote, one must live in the

National Governors Association

geopolitical district, which is administrated by SOCRATA, like all the municipal property taxes, and county registry of deeds, and court records, and school records, and Medicaid fraud in child welfare records, which are used through the certification process of the vote, to generate a finding on the Electoral College votes for a POTUS.

So, that would mean if there was a situation of fake ass property taxes, fake ass foreclosures, fake ass bankruptcy, fake ass Detroit Land Bank Authority, running some fake ass public and private mortgage fraud schemes in the name of the tax exempt lord, there would definitely not be found any corruption in the chain of command of the record when it comes to the chain of command of the certification of the election, in a situation of more illegitimate certifiers, covering up all the mean things they did to my Sweetie, because something like that would just jack the entire 2016 Presidential Election Algorithm, right?

National Conference of State Legislatures

 U.S. Presidential Elections are based on the Electoral College, not the popular vote, which is why the issue is election interference.

They negotiate who wins before the vote.

But, when those wily plans go awry, we have a serious question ask ourselves"

"When will Trump stop obstructing justice and pull that IG Report from his backpocket?"

#maytheheavensfall

Tyler Technologies: Ransomware Locked Our Network, But Election Info Not At Risk

In a late Friday afternoon update to the single page of attack information that now passes for Tyler Technologies’ website, the company admitted to being hit by ransomware, but insisted customers were safe.

Tyler Technologies has copped to the ransomware attack that still has the company’s phone lines and website off line.

In an update to its online statement, Plano, Texas-based Tyler confirmed that early Sept. 23 it was hit with ransomware. It did not specify which variant was used against its network.

The company -- No. 46 on the 2019 CRN Solution Provider 500 -- is sticking by its claims that the only portion of its system that was attacked was the internal network used by Tyler Technologies employees, as well as the telephone systems.

Tyler said addressing this with clients is the company’s “highest priority.”

“We are deploying every resource at our disposal, both internal and external, to take whatever steps are needed to return to business as usual,” the company said. “We are committed to doing that in a responsible, deliberate way, and we are laser-focused on those efforts.”

Tyler said it has been in contact with the FBI “and we are cooperating with them.”

The attack on Tyler Technologies is setting off alarm bells in the security community, not just because it is yet another ransomware attack this year against a massive solution provider, but because the company’s website and phone system remains down.

Kyle Hanslovan, CEO of Huntress Labs, said solution providers that are Tyler’s size typically have network redundancies built in, meaning the phone systems and website should be restorable quickly. The fact that the site has not yet come back online, likely means Tyler does not know the extent of the intrusion.

“It’s concerning. Redundancies are hard. Redundancies are expensive, but they should be part of any company’s resiliency plan,” he said. “They could be one of these companies that is very operationally mature when it comes to sales and products, but inside their network it is a house of cards.”

A call to Tyler’s spokeswoman could not be routed through the switchboard, an operator who picked up the phone yesterday said.

“We’re still having problems with the phones,” she said. In an email, a spokesperson directed CRN to an update on the website. Tyler’s website – which was offline following the attack – has been replaced by a single-page statement about the ransomware attack, a part of which insists that none of its clients’ systems were accessed.

“Based on all of the evidence gathered to date through our around-the-clock response efforts, all information available to us continues to indicate that this incident is limited to Tyler‘s internal corporate environment and does not impact the separate environment where we host client systems,” the statement reads. “ We have disconnected points of access between Tyler’s internal systems and our client systems to further protect our clients.”

The company also said its internal payroll systems are part of a separate system and were also not hit.

However, Hanslovan said it is very difficult for the best security forensics to determine how far-reaching an attack was, even weeks afterwards. At best, those reports will only indicate “high confidence” that an attack did not spread beyond the area that it impacted.

Tyler Technologies serves 15,000 customers around the world, but focuses primarily on state and local government customers. The company offers dozens of solutions for courts, police, EMS, fire department, probation, as well as resourced to pay parking tickets and water bills.

The company bought Socrata, an advanced AI platform in 2018, which extracts information from municipal systems giving decision makers actionable datasets used in urban planning. A part of that includes data from elections departments, raising the concern that ransomware actors could be attempting to tamper with elections.

The company said the Socrata system is housed on an AWS server and has not been touched.

“Based on all of the evidence gathered to date through our around-the-clock response efforts, all information available to us continues to indicate that this incident is limited to Tyler‘s internal corporate environment and does not impact the separate environment where we host client systems. In addition, our Socrata platform is hosted offsite on AWS (Amazon Web Services), and our Tyler Federal Entellitrak and Tyler Cybersecurity platforms are maintained in entirely separate environments. There is no evidence of any impact on those environments whatsoever.

The company also insisted that none of its products are used in voting. The Socrata system reads the information that is provided.

“None of our products is a system of record for voting or any other election- or voting-related activities. Users of our open data solution may use our platform to post aggregated information about election returns, or to provide information about polling stations and campaign finance, but Tyler does not store individual voting records. Our open data solution is hosted offsite on AWS, not on Tyler‘s internal network that was impacted.”

The company also disputed some online comments that its utility bill payment systems used by cities and towns was having trouble following the outage.

“Tyler‘s Online Services and Support teams have reviewed all the logs, monitoring, traffic reports, volume reports, and cases related to utility and court payments,” the company said. “There were no outages with any of our online payment systems and payment activity has functioned normally during this time.”

Brett Callows, a threat analyst at Emsisoft, said the looming U.S. election, and the danger posed by ransomware to municipal systems, regardless of vendor, is real.

“The threat ransomware groups present cannot be overstated,” he said. “They’re using APT-level tools and techniques to successfully attack - and extract data from - courts, government agencies, companies in the Defence Industrial Base sector, financial institutions and public and private entities in multiple other sectors. These incidents could potentially be a risk to national security, economic security and, of course, election security.”

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City Of Muncie Mayor Dennis Tyler Arrested By FBI But Not Mayor Of Detroit Mike Duggan

Wait for it...

Muncie Mayor Dennis Tyler arrested by FBI agents

Two locals were arrested, with four locations being raided by FBI Tuesday afternoon during a corruption investigation into the Muncie City government. Muncie Star Press

MUNCIE, Ind. – Muncie Mayor Dennis Tyler was arrested Monday by FBI agents at his northside home.

'I can confirm an arrest warrant was executed at the home of Mayor Dennis Tyler this morning and he is currently in custody," Christine Bavender, a spokesperson for the FBI, told The Star Press.

The doors to the mayor's wing at City Hall, normally open during business hours, were closed about 9 a.m. Monday. A sign that frequently hangs on that door when the offices are closed said, "Out to lunch. Will return shortly."

A federal investigation of allegations of corruption in and near the Tyler administration has been under way for nearly four years.

The probe apparently began in early 2016 with allegations against Craig Nichols, at that time Tyler's building commissioner.

Last January, Nichols pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering, and was sentenced to two years in federal prison.

Others charged in the federal corruption probe to date include Nikki Grigsby, the Muncie Sanitary District administrator arrested on bid-rigging allegations in July; Tracy Barton, another MSD official; and local businessmen Jeffrey Burke, Tony Franklin and Rodney Barber.

Bavender referred all other questions concerning Tyler's arrest to the U.S. Attorney's office in Indianapolis. Federal authorities reportedly made no other arrests in Muncie on Monday.

A memo filed by federal prosecutors prior to Craig Nichols' sentencing in January alleged that in the wake of allegations against the building commissioner in 2016, city officials – including Tyler – held meetings at Democratic Headquarters with, among others, the building commissioner's father, longtime party insider Phil Nichols.

That document alleged another Tyler department head, street commissioner Duke Campbell, at some point was recruited to arrange for fraudulent bids to be collected in a bid to spare the younger Nichols from prosecution.

Campbell has not been charged in the investigation.

Tyler's term in office ends Dec. 31.

Last January, he announced he would not seek a third term as mayor. Republican Dan Ridenour this month won the 2019 mayoral race over Democrat Terry Whitt Bailey, Tyler's Community Development director.

Tyler is believed to be the first Muncie mayor arrested while in office in a century. In 1919, Rollin H. Bunch, a Democrat and local physician, resigned from the city's highest office after he was charged – and later convicted – of a federal mail fraud charge.

Bunch, who served a brief prison term, later received a presidential pardon, and was elected to another term as mayor in the 1930s.


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The 2020 Election Is Definitely Going To Be Contested - Tyler Ignored FBI To Cover Up Electoral College Gerrymandering

Q: Why did Tyler Technologies pay the ransomware?

A: Because they and their co-conspirators did not want to be uncloaked for interfering in the 2020, 2018, 2016, 2014, 2012, 2010 Electoral College, but, hey, what do I know?

The Tale Of The Electoral College: The Predictive Modeling Crappers Of Tyler Are Not Having A Very Good Lead Up To The Presidential Election - "Drats, Hacked Again"

Always remember, the President is elected through the Electoral College, not the Popular Vote, so be a part of this historic investigation and go vote, we need the data.

#maytheheavensfall

Tyler Technologies finally paid the ransom to receive the decryption key

Tyler Technologies has finally decided to paid a ransom to obtain a decryption key and recover files encrypted in a recent ransomware attack.

Tyler Technologies, Inc. is the largest provider of software to the United States public sector. At the end of September, the company disclosed a ransomware attack and its customers reported finding suspicious logins and previously unseen remote access tools on their networks.

The ransomware attack took place on September 23, the threat actors breached the network of the company and deployed the malware.

Tyler notified law enforcement and hired a forensics firm to investigate the incident and determine the extent of the incident.

Immediately after the attack company representatives declared that the incident only impacted the internal network and phone systems.

Some reports circulating online speculate the company was infected with the RansomExx ransomware.

The RansomEXX is human-operated ransomware, this means that attackers manually infected the systems after gained access to the target network.

In June 2020, the same ransomware was employed in an attack on the Texas Department of Transportation, in September it infected the systems at the IPG Photonics high-performance laser developer.

According to BleepingComputer, which cited a source informed on the event, Tyler Technologies paid a ransom of an unspecified amount to receive the decryption key and recover encrypted files.

“When the ransomware encrypted Tyler Technologies’ files, they appended an extension similar to ‘.tylertech911-f1e1a2ac.'” reported BleepingComputer.

“To prove that the decryptor was valid, BleepingComputer was able to decrypt encrypted files [1, 2] uploaded to VirusTotal at the time of the ransomware attack.”

When decrypted, the Arin.txt file contained a list of IP ranges used by the company.

Experts pointed out that many school districts, court systems, and local and statement governments in the United States uses Tyler Technologies software, this means that the disclosure of data stolen during the ransomware attack could have serious consequences.

For this reason, the company decided to pay the ransom.

How to Respond and Report 

The FBI does not support paying a ransom in response to a ransomware attack. Paying a ransom doesn’t guarantee you or your organization will get any data back. It also encourages perpetrators to target more victims and offers an incentive for others to get involved in this type of illegal activity. 

If you are a victim of ransomware:

• Contact your local FBI field office to request assistance, or submit a tip online.
• File a report with the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). 

I wonder if this is in any shape or form related because I had a very difficult time figuring it out.

Illuminate Education Awarded Michigan REMC SAVE Contract for Data Warehouse Solution

https://wlcsd.org/our-district/

Walled Lake schools: The system is down, but class will go on Monday

http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4804:qlk9dm.3.2

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Janie's Got A Fund: Steven Tyler, Youth Villages, Backpacks, UCC Liens, HSBC & Medicaid Fraud In Child Welfare

Steve Tyler & John Conyers, Jr.

Steven Tyler did not come up with this and I think I know who did because they did not even trying to hide it.

And Janie's Fund has a backpack program.

Just like Mike Morse has a backpack program.

Just like Nowruz Foundation has a backpack program.

Just like Together We Rise has a backpack program.

Which all follow the same model of human trafficking.

Janie's Fund is another one of those trafficking of tiny humans enterprises constructed by Youth Villages, a foreign entity, because it has a foundation.

Name:	YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION, INC.
Status:	Active	Initial Filing Date:	07/18/1996
Formed in:	TENNESSEE	Delayed Effective Date:
Fiscal Year Close:	June	AR Due Date:	10/01/2019
Term of Duration:	Perpetual	Inactive Date:
Principal Office:	3320 BROTHER BLVD MEMPHIS, TN 38133-8950 USA
Mailing Address:	3320 BROTHER BLVD MEMPHIS, TN 38133-8950 USA
AR Exempt:	No	Obligated Member Entity:	No

And guess what else Youth Villages, what I enjoy referring to as tiny human plantations, it has UCC liens.

102002741	01/10/2002	YOUTH VILLAGES INC - ARLINGTON, TN	12/31/9999
208014075	03/24/2008	YOUTH VILLAGES INC - WOBURN, MA	03/24/2023
213109379	02/01/2013	YOUTH VILLAGES INC - MEMPHIS, TN	02/01/2018
213123043	03/21/2013	YOUTH VILLAGES INC - MEMPHIS, TN	03/21/2018
113031200	06/24/2013	YOUTH VILLAGES INC - ARLINGTON, VA	06/24/2018
420082930	07/15/2013	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC - MEMPHIS, TN	07/15/2018
420356899	08/29/2013	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MEMPHIS, TN	08/29/2018
420382766	09/05/2013	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MARSHALL, MN	09/05/2018
420421230	09/12/2013	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MEMPHIS, TN	09/12/2018
420440401	09/17/2013	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - COOKEVILLE, TN	09/17/2018
420451511	09/18/2013	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MEMPHIS, TN	09/18/2018
420660856	11/01/2013	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MEMPHIS, TN	11/01/2018
421549555	05/15/2014	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC - MEMPHIS, TN	05/15/2019
421873934	07/18/2014	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MEMPHIS, TN	07/18/2019
421873946	07/18/2014	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MEMPHIS, TN	07/18/2019
421941817	08/01/2014	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MEMPHIS, TN	08/01/2019
422022531	08/19/2014	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MEMPHIS, TN	08/19/2019
422740552	01/29/2015	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MEMPHIS, TN	01/29/2020
422815814	02/19/2015	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - OREGON CITY, OR	02/19/2020
422845447	02/25/2015	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MEMPHIS, TN	02/25/2020
422870789	03/04/2015	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - INDIANAPOLIS, IN	03/04/2020
423007094	04/02/2015	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MEMPHIS, TN	04/02/2020
423741523	08/24/2015	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MEMPHIS, TN	08/24/2020
424150019	11/23/2015	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MEMPHIS, TN	11/23/2020
424285307	12/21/2015	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MEMPHIS, TN	12/21/2020
425612528	09/07/2016	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MEMPHIS, TN	09/07/2021
425638368	09/13/2016	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MEMPHIS, TN	09/13/2021
426158526	12/30/2016	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MEMPHIS, TN	12/30/2021
426259828	01/24/2017	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MEMPHIS, TN	01/24/2022
426367667	02/14/2017	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MEMPHIS, TN	02/14/2022
426698917	04/19/2017	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MEMPHIS, TN	04/19/2022
426738998	04/26/2017	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MEMPHIS, TN	04/26/2022
426922130	05/30/2017	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MEMPHIS, TN	05/30/2022
426956295	06/05/2017	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - ARLINGTON, TN	06/05/2022
427410401	08/24/2017	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MEMPHIS, TN	08/24/2022
427635543	10/09/2017	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MEMPHIS, TN	10/09/2022
427854153	11/27/2017	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MEMPHIS, TN	11/27/2022
428032381	12/29/2017	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MEMPHIS, TN	12/29/2022
428484525	03/30/2018	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MEMPHIS, TN	03/30/2023
428531625	04/09/2018	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - WORTHINGTON, OH	04/09/2023
428641272	04/27/2018	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MEMPHIS, TN	04/27/2023
428903649	06/12/2018	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MEMPHIS, TN	06/12/2023
429280642	08/20/2018	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MEMPHIS, TN	08/20/2023
429644513	10/31/2018	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MEMPHIS, TN	10/31/2023
429752435	11/26/2018	YOUTH VILLAGES, INC. - MEMPHIS, TN	11/26/2023

And those UCC liens are held by....

GREATAMERICA LEASING CORPORATION

P.O. BOX 609

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA 52406-0609

https://www.greatamerica.com/

and...

U.S. BANK EQUIPMENT FINANCE, A DIVISION OF U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION1310 MADRID STREETMARSHALL, MN 56258

....which used to be called HSBC, and is a foreign bank....

....but the Finland branch is closed....

.....but Youth Villages Foundation has over $200,000,000 in its coffers so I do not believe Janie's Fund is really anything more than a front because Medicaid already pays for the services it is soliciting.

So why the heck does Youth Villages have UCC liens on banking equipment?

Dammit Janet!

We need to talk.

Steven Tyler's Janie's Fund donates more than a half-million dollars in Support of Foster Youth Across the U.S.

https://janiesfund.org/

Funds to support Youth Villages' programs in Boston, New York City, Nashville and North Carolina

MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec. 31, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Iconic music legend and humanitarian Steven Tyler, through his philanthropic initiative Janie's Fund, announced a year-end donation of $532,000 to support young women who have aged out of foster care in Boston, New York City, Nashville and the state of North Carolina.

Funds in all markets will be used to support public/private partnerships for YVLifeSet and will be matched directly with public funding and private donations.  In New York City, funds will support a new pilot program and in Nashville, help ensure that every girl that ages out of foster care has access to the program.

YVLifeSet is a comprehensive, evidence-informed program that helps young people age 17 to 22 overcome challenges and childhood trauma to become successful, independent adults through experiential learning and intensive support.

"Through Janie's Fund, I've met so many young women who have experienced the horrors and pain of childhood trauma. And the effects of this trauma don't stop at 18," said Tyler. "YVLifeSet is making an amazing impact on the lives of so many young people, and I'm thrilled to be part of helping this program expand across the country. There are 10,000 girls who age-out annually and desperately need this level of care. It's my hope that we can announce additional program expansions in new year to help even more girls."

Tyler established Janie's Fund in partnership with Youth Villages in 2015 to provide hope and healing for many of our country's most vulnerable girls who have survived the trauma of abuse and neglect.

Without help, studies show that young people who experienced foster care are more likely to struggle as adults. A randomized clinical trial of YVLifeSet conducted by MDRC, a social research group, found that the program reduced homelessness, increased earnings and economic security, decreased mental illness, and decreased partner and domestic violence for participants.

About Youth Villages Youth Villages is one of the largest providers of services to children in Tennessee and a national leader in children's mental and behavioral health. The organization serves tens of thousands of children, families and young people in 16 states each year. Youth Villages' continuum of programs in Tennessee includes intensive in-home services; foster care and adoption; residential and intensive residential treatment campuses; YVLifeSet for transition-age youth; mentoring; and crisis services. The organization has been recognized by the Harvard Business School and U.S. News & World Report, and was identified by The White House as one of the nation's most promising results-oriented nonprofit organizations. Learn more at www.youthvillages.org.

About Janie's Fund Janie's Fund is a philanthropic initiative created by Steven Tyler in partnership with one of America's most effective nonprofits, Youth Villages. Named after Aerosmith's 1989 hit, "Janie's Got a Gun," which tells the story of a young girl who was abused by her father, Janie's Fund provides hope and healing for many of our country's most vulnerable girls who have survived the trauma of abuse and neglect. Through Janie's Fund, Tyler is using his big voice to give a voice to thousands of victims who haven't had one. For more information, visit www.janiesfund.org.

Steven Tyler once adopted a teenager and got her pregnant

Aerosmith rock star Steven Tyler's relationship history is as tragic as it is complicated — particularly the "Dream On" singer's shocking three-and-a-half-year involvement with a teen named Julia Holcomb in the 1970s. 

According to a Lifesite piece written by the rocker's much younger ex-girlfriend back in 2011, she and Tyler reportedly first met backstage at an Aerosmith concert in Portland, Ore. in 1973. At the time, the frontman was in his late 20s, while she was just 16 years old.

As Holcomb claimed, Tyler was so taken with her that he asked her mother to sign over legal guardianship to him, which would allow the minor to join the "Walk This Way" band on the road. "I became lost in a rock and roll culture. In Steven's world it was sex, drugs, and rock and roll," she wrote, adding, "I didn't know it yet, but I would barely make it out alive."

Three years later, Holcomb became pregnant with Tyler's child, and while the former couple initially planned to marry, the rock star had a change of heart. Fueled by his reported doubts about impending fatherhood, he allegedly pressured Holcomb into getting an abortion. "His guardianship of me complicated things further," she wrote, explaining that she eventually agreed to having the procedure. "I was subordinate to him as in a parent relationship and felt I had little control over my life." 

"Steven sat beside me in the hospital until it was over," she continued, but noted, "When the nurse would leave the room he was snorting cocaine on the table beside my bed. He even offered some to me once, but I just turned away, sick inside." According to Holcomb, both felt deep regret over the decision, and she returned home in early 1977. Now an anti-abortion advocate, she added, "I was a broken spirit. I could not sleep at night without nightmares of the abortion and the fire. The world seemed like a dark place."

While Holcomb told her side of the story back in 2011, Tyler had already publicly disclosed the ordeal in Aerosmith's 1997 autobiography, Walk This Way. "It was a big crisis," the "Cryin'" hitmaker wrote at the time (via the National Review). "It's a major thing when you're growing something with a woman, but they convinced us that it would never work out and would ruin our lives. You go to the doctor and they put the needle in her belly and they squeeze the stuff in and you watch. And it comes out dead." He continued, "I was pretty devastated. In my mind, I'm going, Jesus, what have I done?" 

According to the band's co-founding member and former guitarist, Ray Tabano, the abortion "really messed Steven up."

Readers may already be aware that Tyler briefly had an affair with supermodel Bebe Buell, with whom he shares daughter and actress Liv Tyler, while he and Holcomb were still together. The former Playboy model later agreed with Tabano's assessment, telling the National Review that her ex began to spiral following the abortion while on tour in Europe. "He was crazy," she said of his drug and alcohol abuse at the time, adding, "Totally drunk, really out of it." 

Of course, when Buell became pregnant with daughter Liv in 1977, she broke things off with Tyler and famously kept his paternity a secret for years while music producer Todd Rundgren took on the role of dad. As the Lord of the Rings star later recalled on The Jonathan Ross Show in 2015, "My mother was very young when she had me and there was a little bit of confusion about where I came from." 

She went on to say, "I kind of figured it out because [Steven] looked exactly like me, and I have a sister named Mia who is a year younger than me, and I saw her standing at the side of the stage at a concert and I was literally like looking at my twin. She looked exactly like me." The actress, who was just eight years old at the time, added, "I looked at my mom and she had tears in her eyes, and I kind of put it all together."

For his part, Steven Tyler remained deeply affected by the abortion, particularly when he and his then-wife, the late model Cyrinda Foxe, welcomed daughter Mia in 1978. "I was afraid," he wrote in Walk This Way (via the National Review). "I thought we'd give birth to a six-headed cow because of what I'd done with other women. The real-life guilt was very traumatic for me. Still hurts."

More recently, Tyler opened up about his admittedly promiscuous rock 'n roll lifestyle throughout the '70s during an interview with Fox News' Objectified in July 2018. "I think rock stars … I felt like I had an obligation to keep that alive," he said of sleeping around (via TMZ). "I certainly had my way with women and women had their way with me."

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