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What is it like to be in prison? Part 7, "I don't want to die in prison."

Posted on April 30, 2009
Today I'm pondering what life would be like while in prison. The who, what, where, when and how of a prisoner's life behind bars. LIFE INSIDE PRISON - PART 2 - As intelligent, industrous and successful professionals we strive to make the end as comfortable as possible...

Can you get run over by your own car or truck?

Posted on April 30, 2009
Run over by her own truck alcohol is thought to have had contributed in some way. The incident occurred in Omaha, Nebraska at the HyVee supermarket parking lot at 51st and Center Street around 1:30 A.M. A man saw it occur and telephoned the police. Emergency surgery apparently was not enough to save her...

Media On Trial: Did the Media Fail us with reporting Madoff? Part 10

Posted on April 29, 2009
Today we continue to analyze and ask why the media missed this softball and how over a ten year period there were no questions being asked in the print and electronic media. The questions I have about media coverage begins with why weren't the doubts about Madoff's investment scheme aired in the news until after he admitted his investment group was nothing more than a Ponzi scheme? It isn't as if there weren't people and evidence to support a news story...

Media On Trial: Did the Media Fail us with reporting Madoff? Part 9

Posted on April 29, 2009
Today we continue to analyse and ask why the media missed this softball and how over a ten year period there were no questions being asked in the print and electronic media. The questions I have about media coverage begins with why weren't the doubts about Madoff's investment scheme aired in the news until after he admitted his investment group was nothing more than a Ponzi scheme? It isn't as if there weren't people and evidence to support a news story...

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Media On Trial: Did the Media Fail us with reporting Madoff? Part 8

Media On Trial: Did the Media Fail us with reporting Madoff? Part 7

Media On Trial: Did the Media Fail us with reporting Madoff? Part 6

Nebraska wrester dies in accident on road from meet in Iowa

Posted on April 29, 2009
A wrestler who died in a van crash while in Iowa has suit filed by his mother. The student was a wrestler for York College and was in a van with ten wrestlers from a Nebraska college. He was from Kansas and was not wearing his seat belt. The wrester is Brock Pigorsch from Herington, Kansas...

Pacemaker cut from chest with pocketknife

Posted on April 29, 2009
Some stories need a further explanation and without additional facts a story can lack perspective. This is one of those stories. Attempted murder charges filed against son who attempted to cut a pacemaker from his father's chest using a pocketknife...

Media On Trial: Did the Media Fail us with reporting Madoff? Part 5

Posted on April 28, 2009
Today we continue to analyse and ask why the media missed this softball and how over a ten year period there were no questions being asked in the print and electronic media. January 14, 2009 - Bernard Madoff Free: in the belly of the paparazzi - Media wait for a decision by Federal Court in Manhattan on the appeal of the Magistrate Judge ruling to continue bail for Bernard Madoff, which was affirmed...

Media On Trial: Did the Media Fail us with reporting Madoff? Part 4

Media On Trial: Did the Media Fail us with reporting Madoff? Part 3

Posted on April 28, 2009
Today we continue to analyse and ask why the media missed this softball and how over a ten year period there were no questions being asked in the print and electronic media. Early 2007 - Inside Look: Madoff Charged with Securities Fraud – Since early 2007 - A "Giant Ponzi Scheme" - Interview with Aksia CEO Jim Vos: Advised Clients Not to Invest with Madoff http://www...

Media On Trial: Did the Media Fail us with reporting Madoff? Part 2

Posted on April 28, 2009
Today we continue to analyse and ask why the media missed this softball and how over a ten year period there were no questions being asked in the print and electronic media. SEC staff at Fenway Park "WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO FIND 1ST BASE" Markopolos If you sat the SEC officials in Fenway Park for an afternoon they would not be able to find first base...

The Media On Trial: Did the Media Fail us with reporting Madoff? Part 1

Posted on April 28, 2009
Media Malpractice Where was the media during the near decade that Madoff was scamming $50 Billion? Why weren't any questions being raised in the print and electronic media for the ten years Madoff was running his Ponzi scheme? Could it be that no one knew about Madoff? Is this scheme, like the subprime scam just something that no one knew was occurring? Was this scheme, like the Y2K scam just too far above the average journalist's intelligence? Or has the media in general become complacent, after book deals and jobs where hairspray is deemed more worthy of their time than exposing the truth? Today and tomorrow we will examine the media clips on YouTube that covered the Madoff breaking news...

Following the prison career of Bernie Lawrence Madoff, Prisoner No. 61727-054

Posted on April 28, 2009
From time-to-time many people may wonder where Bernie Madoff is. Well Bernard Lawrence Madoff, otherwise known as number 61727-054 a 70 year-old white male is currently residing at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York City. The MCC is an administrative facility housing male and female pre-trial and holdover inmates...

Cyberspace safe-crackers needed; no hacksaw necessary, just a mafia nickname,

Posted on April 27, 2009
Today's lesson is how to profit from your past criminal activity. Coming from an Italian this should come as no great surprise. Like Capone, and others we Italians strive to create enterprise where none previously existed. Who says crime doesn't pay? In this case it does pay along with health, dental, disability, life and a 401K plan...

Update about deadly Iowa ATV accident and the heroics of an 11-year-old girl.

Posted on April 27, 2009
There is a very interesting update in the World-Herald by staff writer Katie Fretland, about the Des Moines Register article I blogged about a few days ago concerning the ATV accident that caused the death of an 11-year-old girl, Courtney Leming. Morgan McFarland was not the driver, was knocked unconscious and when she came too she realized Courtney was seriously injured...

Clear Lake company issued a fine for the death of a worker who fell into an open hopper

Posted on April 26, 2009
Clear Lake company issued a fine for the death of a worker who fell into an open hopper IOSH, or OSHA as it's most commonly called fined a Clear Lake company $357,000 for an accident that killed an employee. The Des Moines Register article indicates this is the second time an open hopper unprotected by guardrails has been the issue of a citation...

Iowa pedestrian struck and killed by moving train in Tama

Posted on April 25, 2009
An Iowa woman killed by a train has been identified as Kristi Brown of Tama, Iowa. She was struck and killed by a Union Pacific train late Wednesday near a crossing. The train was heading to Illinois from Wyoming with coal. There were 136 cars on the train...

Combination trucks lead to increased fatalities in auto accidents

Posted on April 25, 2009
In 2007, there were 37, 248 fatal automobile accidents in the U.S; of those, large trucks were responsible for eight percent of the reported fatalities (74 percent of the 4584 large trucks involved were combination trucks, 21.5 percent of which rolled over in the accident)...

Is the Iowa Lottery being corrupted by retailers involved with inside trading and the outright deception of its customers?

Posted on April 24, 2009
The Iowa Ombudsman released an investigative report of the Iowa Lottery. The reports should shock every Iowan. The shock won't be because of questionable behavior and practices by the retailers that sell the tickets, no that should be expected. But because no one in the government or the Attorney General's Office seems to care or have anticipated it could happen...

ATV Accidents in Iowa Kill Two, one of which is a young girl

Posted on April 24, 2009
Iowa and ATVs have been in the news. Recently ATV's were recalled. The Iowa Attorney General got involved with the manufacturers of ATV's obtaining from them restrictions on how they were being sold. Safety and the number of child deaths was the issue...

MLB Advertising Revenues: Is the revenue stream more important than the truth to the minors?

Posted on April 23, 2009
It's a problem for the MLB, the MiLB and they have exported it to high schools. A Mason City, Iowa father was arrested for supplying his son steroids. The father and mother are divorced and child visitation was being exercised. The AP reports the son was given the drugs when he was on a visitation weekend...

FINANCIAL MISCONDUCT, is a major league problem.

Posted on April 22, 2009
Here is a quote from one of my blogs written in August 2008. 'Let's all give Johnnie a round of applause for just showing up today. Even though he didn't practice as he should have, didn't practice with the team or on his own, didn't work hard, didn't learn to juggle the ball, was late for games, forgot his jersey, didn't bring his water bottle and had a poor team attitude; I his parent, want him (me) to feel good about himself (myself) so we've (I) have arranged to have this participation (loser) trophy all shiny and nice, made with his name on it, the year (he acted like a loser) and the team (that accepted and trophied) his (loser) participation...

Trial Law: Some questions never get answered.

Posted on April 22, 2009
Joe Mccloud was southbound on 180th St. in Appanoose County when he lost control of his vehicle striking a tree in the West ditch. All though Mr. Mccloud was wearing his seatbelt he died from the injuries sustained in the crash. So what happened to allow his Chevrolet Tracker to lose control? Questions we lawyers ask all the time...

FINANCIAL MISCONDUCT: Is the answer to frivolous Wall Street bonuses, The Participation Trophy Syndrome

Posted on April 21, 2009
The Participation Trophy Syndrome Wall Street executives who take frivolous bonuses have to have learned some where in life that their showing up is somehow all they have to do. Bernard Madoff had to have learned somewhere in his lifetime that he was entitled just because he showed up for the investment game...

Worker Safety: Power saw kick back cuts workers throat causing his demise.

Posted on April 21, 2009
In a freak accident WEAU 13 News reports on a terrible accident involving a trench worker. In this incident being investigated by OSHA, 33-year-old Eugene Hakes, Jr., of Cadott was working for A-1 Excavating on a job site using a saw, it kicked back cutting his throat and causing his death...

FINANCIAL MISCONDUCT: Y2K, a bigger fraud than Madoff ever thought to be.

Posted on April 20, 2009
How smart are you? Smart enough to make politicians and Wall Street along with the AMA and other professional organizations prove a crisis exists? Well let's see how smart you really are. Remember Y2K? Do you recall the fear of the Internet collapsing and you losing all of your data? Did you run out and buy a new computer along with new software? Did you only then feel safe? They, meaning Wall Street, the White House, Congress and Silicon Valley were laughing at you the entire time...

NEGLIGENCE: Assumptions about the most obvious fact can kill your case.

Posted on April 20, 2009
WARNING: What's staring you in the face may not be the negligent act. In this Iowa accident a toddler-passenger in a car the mother was driving was killed as the car was t-boned by another vehicle. Now before you get upset with the other driver know the driver of the car in which the toddler was a passenger was its 19-year-old mother and the report is that she failed to stop and yield the right of way...

Political Malpractice, A novel idea

Posted on April 17, 2009
Here is a blog post about being able to sue politicians for malpractice in the same manner as are other professions. I've got an idea of how it could be done, but I'd better develop it first. That said posting this idea couldn't wait. Political Ads – The Top Ten http://www...

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