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Professor Elam
Accounting & Investing Info for San Antonio A & M
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Professor Elam
Friday 10/25/2024
Emerson on Transcendentalist
https://emersoncentral.com/texts/nature-addresses-lectures/lectures/the-transcendentalist/
Khan Academy on Transcendentalism
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Professor Elam
Monday 10/21/2024
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Professor Elam
Weekend 10/20/2024
Our own Erica Acosta was a member of a student panel at the 2024 Accounting Educator Conference here ni San Antonio.
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Professor Elam
Wed Ict 16, 2024
\As Ron White says, you cna't fix stupid. Here a former Police Chief committed a felony fraud for $14,.388. There is ethical failure and then ther is just plain stupid.
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A federal jury has convicted Christopher Filline, the former Castroville police chief, of conspiracy to commit wire fraud for participating in a scheme to destroy his own SUV in 2016.
He reported the vehicle was stolen and claimed an insurance settlement, but was indicted four years later and was found guilty Tuesday.
A Castroville animal control officer participated in the scheme, along with a third man who doused Filline’s 2007 Lincoln Navigator with gasoline and set it on fire, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas.
Filline then filed a false report with the Lytle Police Department and a false insurance claim with Farmers Insurance Group. The insurance company paid out $14,388 for the supposedly stolen vehicle, a U.S. Attorney’s Office statement said.
Filline, who’d been Castroville’s police chief since 2013, was fired soon after federal prosecutors announced the charge in January 2020 that accused him of hatching the insurance fraud plot.
Ambrose Rymers, the animal control officer — and himself a former police chief of the small city of Sabinal in Uvalde County — pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge within days of Filline’s arrest. He is set to be sentenced Wednesday and is facing up to five years in federal prison, according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesperson.
The man who set Filline’s SUV on fire was identified as Oscar Hernandez, according to the spokesperson. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and was sentenced to time served in in 2022 but this year was sentenced to four months in prison for violating the terms of his supervised release.
Filline, 58, whose sentencing hearing is set for Jan. 22, could face up to 20 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.
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Professor Elam
Wed Oct 16, 2024
Fraudsters often cloak themselves in resoectability. This is the case for Kenneth Ken FLores and his father Antonio Tony FLores. Tehy created a janitorial service at Military Hospitals. Both have served as Rey Freo during Fiesta in 1996 and 2018. The two sentenced took bribes to direct busines to former Fiesta Royalty.
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Two former Army civilian workers each have been sentenced to three years in federal prison for their roles in a scheme to defraud the government of $140 million that involved a San Antonio company with Fiesta royalty ties.
U.S. District Judge Fred Biery sentenced Karisa Waysepappy Kelley and John Jordan “Chip” Mathes to three years each in federal prison. Biery ordered them to report Jan. 13 to begin serving their terms.
Both defendants had admitted to taking kickbacks from members of a family that owned a janitorial services firms holding Army contracts.
“There are three things that get prosecuted in federal court: Greed, addiction or sex,” Biery told the pair as they stood before him their lawyers. “Which one got you here?”
“Greed, sir,” Mathes said.
“A little bit of everything,” Kelley told the judge.
The pair pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud conspiracy charges after they admitted steering Army contracts for housekeeping and janitorial services at military hospitals to two companies — Helpful Hands Inc. and Allegiance Environmental Services — run by Kenneth “Ken” Flores and his father, Antonio “Tony” Flores Jr.
The Flores men each have served as Rey Feo during San Antonio’s annual Fiesta celebration, becoming the ceremonial face of the local charitable foundation that raises money for scholarships.
Tony Flores held the title in 1996, and his son Ken wore the sash and crown in 2018.
The younger Flores was sentenced to four years in prison early in September. His older brother Christopher received a two-year term. Their mother, Irma Flores, was sentenced to five years of probation for lesser roles in the scheme.
Ken Flores began an affair with Kelley in 2015, according to court records in which prosecutors detailed he was “sexting” and giving gifts to another employee while seeing her.
When they pleaded guilty in February, Kelley and Mathes each acknowledged taking more than $54,000 in the bid-rigging scheme. Irma, Ken and Christopher Flores admitted the sums were considerably more — $216,719 to Mathes and $57,097 to Kelley. The money went to “consulting” businesses the workers formed as they left their government jobs, according to court documents.
Biery gave the defendants at Tuesday’s sentencing the opportunity to apologize to family and friends who accompanied them to court.
“I knew right away what I did, and I had to fix it,” Mathes said to his wife, daughter and a granddaughter who attended his sentencing.
“I can’t tell you how sorry I am,” Kelley said to the court.
Prosecutors had asked the judge to give Mathes and Kelley between 41 months and 51 months in prison. Biery set the penalty at 36 months for each, telling them they had squandered “a position of higher responsibility.”
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Professor Elam
10/15/20245
Play "Bad Moon Rising"on Amazon Music Unlimited (ad)"Bad Moon Rising"
I see the bad moon a-rising
I see trouble on the way
I see earthquakes and lightning
I see bad times todayDon't go around tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the riseI hear hurricanes a-blowing
I know the end is coming soon
I fear rivers overflowing
I hear the voice of rage and ruinDon't go around tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the riseAll right
Hope you got your things together
Hope you are quite prepared to die
Looks like we're in for nasty weather
One eye is taken for an eyeWell, don't go around tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the riseDon't come around tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the riseThanks to CatFog, Alex K. for correcting these lyrics.Play "Bad Moon Rising"on Amazon Music Unlimited (ad) -
Professor Elam
Monday 10/14/2024
One of my do not miss tv shows it the WSJ Editorial Board Report on Fox News Sat afternoon 2 00 PM CST.
Dan Heninger observing the 62% six year raise gratned the Longshoreman suggested this was the start of another 1970s wage price Spiral..
Once a union gets a large settlement like that, others want to cash in. Already the Machinists are striking Boeing. No doubt they think the Govt will not let Boeing fail, yeah well we all thought that about Lehman. Now Boeing is laying off 17,000. If its credit is fruther downgraded it will be lower than investment grade BAA and fall to junk. That eans a lot of funds who must maintain investment grade status will dump Boeing debt. And so the bond price falls and Boeing has to payu a higher interest rate. Ouch.
Dan is probably right.
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Professor Elam
Monday 10/7/2024
(9-2024) Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service http://www.irs.gov
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
The Pathways Student Intern Program is a paid internship
program with IRS Criminal Investigation (CI). The program
is intended for college students who are on track to
graduate in Spring 2026. Upon successful completion
of the program, participants may be considered
for conversion to a Special Agent position with CI.
Appointment is NOT guaranteed.
Ideal candidates will demonstrate a strong interest in
learning about CI and our mission, as well as a passion
for tax and accounting. Participants should thrive in a
dynamic, ever-evolving environment and possess the
ability to prepare detailed reports. Strong communication
skills are essential, as candidates will be responsible
for clearly explaining complex information to front-line
supervisors and external stakeholders.
This is a federal law enforcement position. Interested
applicants must be willing to carry/use a firearm AFTER
appointment AND graduation from the Federal Law
Enforcement Training Center.
QUALIFIED CANDIDATES MUST:
• Be a United States citizen.
• Possess a valid driver’s license.
• Be enrolled full/part-time in an accredited university.
• Work between 16-31 hours per week or 32-64 hours
per pay period.
• Complete the program requirements for conversion to
a Special Agent within 12-18 months.
• Pass all pre-screening requirements to include a
medical screening (prior to being onboarded).
QUALIFIED CANDIDATES RECEIVE:
• Federal pay.
• Accrued annual and sick leave.
• Federal health and dental insurance.
• Compensation as GS-1899, at a Grade 4, 5, or 7, based
on qualifications.
• Thrift Savings Plan participation (1% automatic with
additional matching).
• Years of service creditable for retirement and pension
calculation purposes.
FOR CONVERSION TO GL-1811, STUDENT INTERNS MUST:
• Be 21 years of age upon completion of the training
academy AND not exceed 37 years of age.
• Have earned a bachelor’s degree which included or
was supplemented with 15 semester hours (or 23
quarter hours) in accounting AND an additional 9
semester hours (or 14 quarter hours) from among the
following closely related fields: finance, economics,
money and banking, tax law, and business law.
• Have completed 480 hours of work experience.
Student interns who are rated outstanding and
maintain a 3.0 GPA may be eligible for conversion after
reaching the 320-hour mark.
• Be recommended by the Field Office Special Agent
in Charge.
• Convert to the Special Agent position within 120 days
of graduation.
3-YEAR PROBATIONARY PERIOD BEGINS UPON CONVERSION TO THE SPECIAL AGENT POSITIONPATHWAYS STUDENT
INTERN PROGRAM FY2024
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Professor Elam
Monday 10/7/2024
Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer known as the “Merchant of Death,” walked out of a U.S. jail almost two years ago in a trade with Moscow for U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner. Now he is back in business, trying to broker the sale of small arms to Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants.
The 57-year-old, whose life reportedly inspired the 2005 Hollywood movie, “Lord of War,” starring Nicolas Cage, spent decades selling Soviet-made weapons in Africa, South America and the Middle East before being arrested in 2008 in a U.S. law enforcement sting operation.
Since his release, Bout has joined a pro-Kremlin far-right party and won a seat in a local assembly in 2023, seemingly turning the page on his days as an arms broker. But when Houthi emissaries went to Moscow in August to negotiate the purchase of $10 million worth of automatic weapons, they encountered a familiar face: the mustachioed Bout, according to a European security official and other people familiar with the matter.
The potential arms transfers, which have yet to be delivered, stop well short of the sale of Russian antiship or anti-air missiles that could pose a significant threat to the U.S. military’s efforts to protect international shipping from the Houthis’ attacks.
The Biden administration has been worried that Russia might provide the Houthis with such advanced weapons to retaliate for Washington’s support of Ukraine, but there is no evidence that those missiles have been sent, or that Bout is involved in such a deal.
Still, even small arms shipments to the Houthis would be opposed by Washington, which has designated the Yemen militants as a terrorist group.
Arming a belligerent in the Middle East conflict would also mark an escalation for Russia, which has been strengthening security ties with Tehran but has generally stayed away from the confrontation between Israel and its Iran-backed foes.
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