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  • Oversight With Eyes Closed

    dollar bill washington's eyeThe Federal Housing Finance Agency states, “Our mission is to ensure the Housing Government-sponsored Enterprises operate in a safe and sound manner so they serve as a reliable source of liquidity and funding for housing finance and community investment. Together these institutions provide more than $5 trillion in funding for the U.S. mortgage markets and financial institutions.”

    Date Published:
    July 21, 2016
    News Type:
    News
    Program Area(s):
    Public and Indian Housing
    LINK TO ORIGINAL ARTICLE:
    Milford Daily News Staff (link is external)

    (Source: milforddailynews.com) FRAMINGHAM – A former Framingham Housing Authority accountant, who doctored tenants’ computer records and skimmed money from their rent payments, faces federal charges she stole more than $70,000 in cash over the course of a year and a half, authorities said Tuesday.

    Framingham Police arrested Rosa Famania, 33, at her 6 Dennis Road, Milford, home on Tuesday on behalf of federal authorities, who had obtained a warrant for her arrest. She is charged with theft from a program receiving federal funds. Famania resigned last Aug. 31 after she was suspended by the Housing Authority that month.
    According to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Boston, Famania began working as an accounting assistant in February 2010.

    The investigation began on Aug. 6, 2015, as a result of a mistake by one of Famania’s co-workers. Famania was out sick on Aug. 5, 2015, when several people paid their rent in cash. The money, with receipts, was put in a cash lock box – for which Famania was responsible – kept on Famania’s desk. The following day, Famania left work early. A co-worker, meaning to open a petty cash box, instead mistakenly opened the rent cash box and discovered two of the rent payments – $300 and $560 – were missing.

    “A subsequent search by the FHA accounting department employee revealed that the $560 and $300 duplicate copies of the receipts that were wrapped around the tenant’s cash payment when they were placed in the lock cash rental box the previous day were torn up and thrown away in Famania’s trash barrel,” according to the affidavit.

    The authority began an internal investigation…

  • Megyn Kelly – No One Should Be Harassed in the Workplace

    Megan Kelly and Roger Ailes

    Megyn Kelly claims (According to Cosmopolitan) she was sexually harassed over a decade ago by Roger Ailes the Chairman and CEO of FOX. She claims the harassment began when she was a new correspondent with the network.

    Kelly the “bucking anchor” according to Variety said in a post on June 22, 2015 , “Megyn Kelly is bucking the conventional wisdom of what it means to be a  Fox News anchor. The take-no-prisoners newswoman isn’t afraid to throw hardballs at Republicans. She recently lectured Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul over his penchant for arguing with female reporters. She poked Jeb Bush about whether he would have invaded Iraq in 2003….”

    Furthemore the story states, ” Kelly, 44, a former corporate litigator who continues to gain prominence

    at the country’s biggest news network,…”

    Corporate Litigation as defined by  Tobin O’Co nno r & Ewing

    Corporate litigation encompasses a lot more than one business suing another.  In fact, corporate litigation includes any type of legal proceeding having anything to do with a business or corporation, and can include steps taken to avoid litigation as well as actually litigating and managing business disputes.

    In general, corporate litigation involves a whole host of tort and contract issues. But with Sarbanes-Oxley and other recent regulations aimed at increasing public scrutiny of business and corporate practices, corporate litigation has come to include dealing with federal regulators and ensuring compliance with federal and state regulations, as well.

    Skilled business litigators are equipped to handle every legal problem a corporation may face over the course of its life, such as the following:

    • Ensuring compliance with wage and hour and anti-discrimination laws
    • Defending companies against wrongful termination suits
    • Securing compliance with new accounting and corporate governance regulations
    • Litigating or mediating shareholder-derivative lawsuits
    • Managing corporate tax compliance
    • Settling labor disputes with unionized workforces as well as with at-will employees and professionals
    • Breach of contract issues, usually with other businesses, whether defending or prosecuting
    • Tort issues, if a customer or client suffers injury from one of your products or services
    • Corporate real estate issues, from premises liability to disputes with landlords or regulators

    F a c t s A b o u t S e x u a l H a r a s s m e n t

    Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination that violates  Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VII applies to employers with 15 or more employees, including state and local governments. It also applies to employment agencies and to labor organizations, as well as to the federal government.

    Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitute sexual harassment when this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual’s employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual’s work performance, or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment.

    Sexual harassment can occur in a variety of circumstances, including but not limited to the following:

    • The victim as well as the harasser may be a woman or a man. The victim does not have to be of the opposite sex.
    • The harasser can be the victim’s supervisor, an agent of the employer, a supervisor in another area, a co-worker, or a non-employee.
    • The victim does not have to be the person harassed but could be anyone affected by the offensive conduct.
    • Unlawful sexual harassment may occur without economic injury to or discharge of the victim.
    • The harasser’s conduct must be unwelcome.

    It is helpful for the victim to inform the harasser directly that the conduct is unwelcome and must stop. The victim should use any employer complaint mechanism or grievance system available.

    When investigating allegations of sexual harassment, EEOC looks at the whole record: the circumstances, such as the nature of the sexual advances, and the context in which the alleged incidents occurred. A determination on the allegations is made from the facts on a case-by-case basis.

    Prevention is the best tool to eliminate sexual harassment in the workplace. Employers are encouraged to take steps necessary to prevent sexual harassment from occurring. They should clearly communicate to employees that sexual harassment will not be tolerated. They can do so by providing sexual harassment training to their employees and by establishing an effective complaint or grievance process and taking immediate and appropriate action when an employee complains.

    It is also unlawful to retaliate against an individual for opposing employment practices that discriminate based on sex or for filing a discrimination charge, testifying, or participating in any way in an investigation, proceeding, or litigation under Title VII.

    Note: The Supreme Court issued two major decisions in June of 1998 that explained when employers will be held legally responsible for unlawful harassment by supervisors. The EEOC’s Guidance on Employer Liability for Harassment by Supervisors examines those decisions and provides practical guidance regarding the duty of employers to prevent and correct  harassment  and the  duty of employees  to avoid harassment  by using their employers’ complaint procedures.

    Megan Kelly Sexual Harrassment Claim

     

     

     

    F i l i n g a C l a i m

    EEO Process – The Department’s Harassing Conduct Policy is not intended to replace an employee’s EEO rights. An employee may pursue claims of harassing conduct through both avenues simultaneously. To learn more about your EEO rights, please contact an EEO Counselor or visit CRC’s web page at http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/crc/index.htm. Contact the Civil Rights Center at 202-693-6500 within 45 days of the alleged discriminatory event in order to preserve your right to file an EEO complaint. Any questions on this guidance should also be addressed to the Department of Labor’s Civil Rights Center.

    Comments & Questions

    1. In this century with the accusations of Bill Cosby, Bill Clinton and Thomas Clarence why would Megyn Kelly present her claim a decade later?
    2. As a former corporate litigator did she not know the rules, the law regarding sexual harassment in the workplace?
    3. Did Megyn Kelly have ulterior prompted and tailored by the powers that be at Fox to create a scandal to have Roger resign?
    4. Did Fox Network refuse to provide and employee handbook to Megyn?
    5. Did she not read it?
    6. Does Fox “NOT” have a “Workplace Harassment Policy”?
    7. Fox’s culture in the workplace provide guidelines on, “How to Succeed at Fox” a few of the guidelines are:
    • Work Hard
    • Seek Opportunities
    • Be Proactive
    • The Golden Rule

    Perhaps Megyn Kelly did work very hard at seeking an opportunity and timed her proactive/reactiveness to “Do Unto Others as They Have Done Unto You.”

    MsConcerned

     

    References

    https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/publications/fs-sex.cfm

    Sexual Harassment Charges EEOC & FEPAs Combined: FY 1997 – 2011

    http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/megyn-kelly-fox-news-star-anchor-republicans-hillary-clinton-

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  • Nickelodeon Cartoon The Loud House to Feature Married Gay Couple — TIME

    The animated Nickelodeon series The Loud House will make history by featuring the channel’s first same-sex married couple in an episode this week. The interracial gay couple will appear in the July 20 episode of the series, which centers on a character named Lincoln Loud growing up as the only boy surrounded by 10 sisters…

    via Nickelodeon Cartoon The Loud House to Feature Married Gay Couple — TIME

  • Black Lives Matter Is Not a Hate Group — TIME

    Each year, the Southern Poverty Law Center, of which I am the president, compiles and publishes a census of domestic hate groups. Our list, which is cited extensively by journalists, academics and government officials alike, provides an important barometer—not the only one, of course—to help us understand the state of hate and extremism in America.…

    via Black Lives Matter Is Not a Hate Group — TIME

  • John Legend Had the Perfect Response to Melania Trump’s Alleged Plagiarism — TIME

    In the wake of accusations that Melania Trump’s Monday night speech at the Republican National Convention plagiarized Michelle Obama’s 2008 convention address, many in Donald Trump’s camp quickly came to the defense of the presidential candidate’s wife. One of these people was RNC Chief Strategist Sean Spicer, who claimed that Melania’s words were so common…

    via John Legend Had the Perfect Response to Melania Trump’s Alleged Plagiarism — TIME

  • GOVERNOR MIKE PENCE & DONALD TRUMP

     

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    Donald Trump tweeted Friday morning that he has offered Indiana #GovMikePence a place on his presidential ticket, choosing the hoosier to be his vice presidential running mate over former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and current New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

    SUMMARY OF THE LAWSUIT – BOWLING v. PENCE

    Michelle and Shannon were married in Polk County, Iowa on January 18, 2011. They currently reside in Marion County, Indiana, with Michelle’s children from a prior relationship. Shannon is employed by the Department of Corrections of the State of Indiana. Through this employment, Shannon is eligible to participate in the State’s benefit plans managed by Defendant, Anita Samuel, Executive Director of the Indiana Department of State Personnel; however, the state will not recognize Michelle as her spouse or Michelle’s children for such benefits because of Section 31-11-1-1(b). This causes both parties economic harms and stigmatic harms.

    Linda married her wife, Lori, on July 20, 2013, after nearly seven years of dating. Unfortunately, Linda’s and Lori’s marriage has reached a point where they have irreconcilable differences, and Linda has received a protective order against her wife. Linda filed a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage in the Marion Superior Court under Cause Number 49D05-1301-DR-3893. The Marion Superior Court dismissed the action, sua sponte, finding that it did not have subject matter jurisdiction because of Section 31-11-1-1. Linda filed a motion to correct errors, which the trial court denied. Linda plans to file her Notice of Appeal with the Indiana Court of Appeals.

    The Governor has repeatedly represented to this court that he does not have “any authority to enforce, or other role respecting, Indiana Code Section 31-11-11-1.” (Defendants’ Memorandum in Support of Their Motion for Summary Judgment, Filing No. 26, at ECF p. 17). Based on this representation and an absence of statutory authority allowing the governor to issue executive decrees telling other elected officials how to do their jobs, the court previously granted summary judgment in favor of the Governor. See Baskin, 12 F.Supp.3d at 1152-53, 2014 WL 2884868 at *4; see also Love v. Pence, 28 F.Supp.3d 793, No. 4:14-cv-15-RLY-TAB, 2014 WL 2881569 (S.D.Ind.2014).

    SUMMARY OF EXODUS REFUGEE IMMIGRATION, INC., Plaintiff, V. MIKE PENCE

    The Court incorporates by reference the background facts set forth in the Order Granting Plaintiff’s Motion for Preliminary Injunction (the “Preliminary Injunction Order”). (See Filing No. 70 at 3-8.) On February 29, 2016, the Court issued its Preliminary Injunction Order, which enjoined the State “from taking any actions to interfere with or attempt to deter the resettlement of Syrian refugees by Exodus in the State of Indiana, including by withholding from Exodus funds and services due Exodus and the refugees it serves.” (Filing No. 70 at 35). Shortly thereafter, the State filed a Notice of Appeal, notifying the Court that it is appealing the Preliminary Injunction Order. Contemporaneously, the State filed the instant motion for a stay pending appeal. Exodus has filed a response and the motion is now ripe for ruling.

    ORDER DENYING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR STAY PENDING APPEAL

    TANYA WALTON PRATT, District Judge.

    This matter is before the Court on a Motion for Stay Pending Appeal pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 62(c) by Defendants Governor Mike Pence and John Wernert, the Secretary of the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration (collectively, “the State”). (Filing No. 74.) On February 29, 2016, the Court granted Plaintiff Exodus Refugee Immigration, Inc. (“Exodus”) a preliminary injunction. The State has appealed that decision and seeks with its current motion a stay pending the resolution of its appeal. The legal standards governing whether a stay should be granted are the same as those governing whether a preliminary injunction should be granted in the first instance. Therefore, as explained in more detail below, essentially the same reasons justifying a preliminary injunction also justify declining to stay that injunction pending appeal. Accordingly, the State’s Motion for Stay Pending Appeal is DENIED.

    Wait for it, wait for it…

    Syrian Christian’s life living under Isis example, every Friday they execute people the first beheading of a man in public was traumatic the man suffered because they  couldn’t behead him with the first cut. The man suffered so much they finally killed him with a gunshot, according to an article published by Carey Lodge of Christian Today.

    EDWARD M. HAMPTON, Plaintiff, v. INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, MIKE PENCE, BRUCE LEMMON, Defendants.

    SUMMARY

    The complaint names three defendants: 1) the Indiana Department of Correction (“IDOC”); 2) Governor Mike Pence; and 3) IDOC Commissioner Bruce Lemmon. The plaintiff alleges that he was placed on the Restricted Movement Unit (“RMU”) at Wabash Valley Correctional Facility (“Wabash Valley”) on October 30, 2015. He alleges that he was denied the opportunity to go to the law library while he was in the RMU in violation of his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. He further alleges that “[t]he IDOC has allowed Wabash Valley to commit illegal acts regarding their RMU for years and the Governor’s duty is to oversee the Commissioner who is given his job by the Governor.” The plaintiff seeks injunctive relief in the form of closing the RMU, as well as punitive damages.

    Any claim for injunctive relief is dismissed as moot because the plaintiff is no longer incarcerated at Wabash Valley.

    Wait for it, wait for it…

    The plaintiff’s motion to proceed in forma pauperis [dkt. 2] is granted. The plaintiff is assessed an initial partial filing fee of Three Dollars and Ninety-Three Cents ($3.93). He shall have through January 19, 2016, in which to pay this sum to the clerk of the district court.

    Christian Today Link

    Michael Barbaro and Monica Davey stated, Mike Pence is a conservative who is proudly out of sync with his times…

    MsConcerned

  • Virtuous What It Isn’t

     

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    It reads her price is far above rubies that does not mean she’s not selling IT, and IT’S not for sale…

    Her worth, a woman’s worth, your worth should mean so much to you that you wouldn’t let anyone de-value you.

    You are worth more than a movie and dinner, or a Good Morning text on FB messenger, a once a month rendezvous, or the “privilege” of calling him your baby daddy on Facebook, or waiting for him to get a divorce, or believing God sent him because he’s fine, he goes to church and he asked can he call you sometime, or because the ring is enormous but rarely is he with you when you wear it.

    Are you virtuous, do you want to be virtuous, for those of you that are virtuous, that’s great for those of you that said, “It depends on how expensive the dinner was.” well that’s not so virtuous, that’s more “Lamp Post-ish.” Don’t sell yourself for a $250 dollar dinner, or a key to his house, or a 6 inch sandwich from #Subway. For those of you that accepted the 1:35 am call or the 6 inch sub, but the bat (The bat is when we say things like, “Dang I wish I had not slept with him, and we say it all the time and we repeat all the negative consequences and we tell our friends and we tell the next guy and the next and the next and we feel bad about it all the time.) back in the closet.  We ALL have fallen short at least a few thousand times in our lives in all areas of our life.

    So I’m on the Bus (in my younger days) traveling around just window shopping and I see something glittery from afar off.  As it moves towards me the shine increases, the sound coming from it is almost sensual and pleasurable.  I’ve seen this glow hundreds of times everywhere in my neighborhood from the window of my Bus, but every now and again there’s one of these things that just makes my eyes and thoughts go everywhere.  I think about who owns it, what does the owner look like, how much did that shine cost, would I like the shine, can I get the shine, and oh yes – what drama will come with that shine is NEVER addressed.  You see I wasn’t taught what NOT to do I was taught what TO do when it came to dating. When that car rolled up with those shiny rims, back in the late eighties, it meant someone driving had “cash flow” – For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

    Your shortcomings are no worse than mine and mine are no greater than yours in the grand scheme of things.  My understanding is that stealing a balloon is the same sin as murder!

    #doyoureadyourbibles

    Don’t give it away it was ALREADY bought and paid for by a man who loved you enough to get whooped/beaten/spit on/slashed/and hung to the bone….

    Does your man do any of this for you today, ask yourself what are you worth to YOU then you will find the answer of what you’re worth to him.

    Don’t be so hard on yourself if you find your worth is not as worthy as you once thought, rise to the occasion today and declare from this day forward, “I______________ will come to understand and value my worth.”

    MsConcerned

     

     

  • I Pray We’ll All Be Ready for His Return

    Chicago Mass Choir – I Pray We’ll All Be Ready for His Return

    This old world has changed by leaps in bounds. Where we once slaves we are now free…or are we? Here in the US we are free to have as many children as we desire – in some areas there is a limitation on the number of female children a family can conceive.  In other lands females are stripped of certain pleasurable organs to prevent premarital sex.  We have moved towards a world where anyone one in love can marry, both heterosexual and LBGT, yet we dispute which gender can use the lavatories.  The influx of police killings in the last few years has risen at an enormous rate; as a result, citizens have taken to killing the police and sending threats to Police Commissioner’s homes and families.  We have formed protest and marches and an organization #Blacklivesmatter a grass roots organization working for the validity of Black life. They are working to (re)build the Black liberation movement to end the violence against Black folk.  I still struggle to find meaning to the protest which are only a formal declaration of objection, if that be true then what possible change can it bring about?

    We have formed strong opinions of who the Messiah is – Jesus or Alah and others, we ridicule individuals who post the “white” portrait of Jesus and double dare folks to post the Black image of Jesus – that of itself is un-Christian like in this writer’s opinion.  We badger folks daily over which version of the Bible is the “real” Word of God; yet we believe without question that there are several kinds of mints, i.e. spearmint, double-mint, peppermint and cool mint.

    We find ourselves in a place in time where those who are deemed to protect and serve have lost their way, we have tolerated the outbursts and racial slurs of the Republican Nominee – Donald Trump, we still promote Thanksgiving as a perpetual moment in time when life was great between the Native Americans and strangers – yet millions of children and adults do not understand what the verse, “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” I have watched thousands of students recite this pledge before class yet prayer is unwelcome…

    There will come a time when we must decide…

    Joshua 24:15 (NKJV) And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve…

    The song pleads for the readiness of those who have not chosen, by providing examples of what the rapture will look like in a few scenarios. For example, she talks about two men walking one has a heart pure as gold but when the sky splits the one who waited to “get right” oh how he cried to Lord but it was too late.  Hey guys have you had a talk with your friend lately to encourage him to give his life?

    Then there’s the married couple, how many of us had a husband or wife who just would not surrender to the call of the Lord and chose to run the streets endlessly – image you wake up and find your spouse gone – Ohhh, what a way to lose the one you love!

    The family in mall – we have or know of that “momma” who is walking with the Lord – imagine you see her hear Him call and in the twinkling of an eye she’s gone, the singer begs you to learn how to pray for yourself… you know that line momma would always say, “You’re gonna miss me when I’m gone.”  We must chose this day whom we will serve, don’t wait for a change to come, don’t think your pastor can save you, don’t think you have one more day to get it right.

    Timothy said, “People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.”

    I pray that we’ll all, be ready
    I pray that we’ll all be
    For his return
    I pray that we’ll give our hearts a search
    So that we won’t be playing church
    I pray we’ll all be ready for His return

    No man knows the day, nor the hour

    You must be, you gotta be
    You gotta be ready, you gotta be ready


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  • Who is Alton Sterling

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    …was he just another Black man gunned down?  It is incomprehensibly unbelievable, the police shot him after they had subdued him, why;  If he was armed he did not have the weapon drawn – considering he was on the ground after be electrocuted.  This is the one incident that has this writer struggling to find solace.  Has police training been evicted from the precincts, have the propensity for fear caused police to act violently.  The number of killings is rising, is it because we are in the “Last Days” and Satan is gaining momentum?  Has the Lord given up on our young men.  Do you have any thoughts in during these turbulent times.

    My condolences to the Sterling family, I am so ashamed of behavior of those who pledged to protect and serve…

    Nakia Jones speaks out for those that wear “Blue”

    Watch here

    Tasers

    Watch the murder here

    MsConcerned

     

     

     

  • The Destruction of Donald Trump’s Facts

    What are you thoughts?

    References

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