Sojourner-Douglass College accreditation revoked; UAlbany "Chief" Wiley's degree from there

The college from which UAlbany “Police Chief” J. “Frank” Wiley allegedly received a bachelor of arts degree in Human and Social Resources (which has a concentration in Criminal Justice as an option) lost its accreditation this year.

Students at the Inner Harbor East Academy will relocate to a temporary facility next week because the school’s operator, Sojourner-Douglass College, hasn't paid the heating bill, according to city school officials.

Anderson, Jessica. "Charter school to move because of unpaid bills." Baltimore Sun. February 11, 2015. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/education/bs-md-ci-inner-harbor-east-academy-20150211-story.html

Sojourner-Douglass College is being sued by the owner of its Edgewater campus property for failure to pay rent, according to school officials and the plaintiff's attorney.

The lawsuit, filed last month in Anne Arundel County District Court, is the latest in a series of setbacks for the Baltimore-based school, which has satellite campuses in Maryland and in the Bahamas.

Burris, Joe. “Sojourner-Douglass sued for failing to pay rent on Arundel campus.” Baltimore Sun. January 15, 2015. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/education/bs-md-ci-sojourner-douglass-suit-20150115-story.html

the school faced financial difficulties — including a $5 million lien from the Internal Revenue Service. The Middle States Commission on Higher Education cited the financial woes when it moved last year to revoke accreditation and again this year when the college appealed.

The college sued the commission the day before the accreditation was revoked, claiming racial discrimination, breach of contract, violation of due process and negligence.

In addition to denying the request for an injunction, Hollander dismissed two counts in the lawsuit — racial discrimination and breach of contract. She gave the college 17 days to revise the lawsuit.

Wood, Pamela. "Sojourner-Douglass College loses bid to restore accreditation." Baltimore Sun. August 28, 2015. http:www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/education/bs-md-sojourner-ruling-20150828-story.html

The college’s website http://www.sdc.edu doesn’t appear to give any indication that its accreditation was revoked, or that they revised their lawsuit within the seventeen days they were provided.

The Human Services degree with a concentration in Criminal Justice in recent years may not be exactly the same as Wiley’s Human and Social Resources degree from 1989, but one would suppose it to be at least similar. There's only about eighteen credits' worth of courses that seem relevant to criminal justice:

Introduction to the Criminological Theory [sic]; The Criminal Justice System; The Judicial Process; Parole and Probation; Constitutional Law; Juvenile Delinquency

"Criminal Justice Concentration." Degree Programs, Concentrations, and Certificates. Sojourner Douglass College. http://www.sdc.edu/admissions/undergraduate/degree-programs-org.pdf

They did have a Criminal Justice degree also, but I'm not sure if that was available when Wiley was there.

The college was only nine years old at the time Wiley graduated, thus about five years old when Wiley presumably began around 1985 (if his BA took him four years): http://www.sdc.edu/about/history.asp An early advertisement in the Baltimore Afro-American, September 23, 1980 emphasizes "a flexible program which combines theory and practice within a structure that enables you to obtain the Bachelor of Arts Degree through a self-designed, individualized plan." http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=e64lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TfUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3464,1815720

Its curriculum in its early days sounds unusual: "the S-D administration builds its very curriculums around the experiences of the students. Dialogue between the professors and their students becomes critical. The students bring their experiences to the classroom, and blend books and theory to come up with a workable whole." For many things that might be ideal, but for police procedure or police administration, I'm not so sure. The enrollment was said to be 350 students at that time.

"Sojourner-Douglass College: fruition of a dream." Baltimore Afro-American. August 29, 1981. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FuZfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RQMGAAAAIBAJ&pg=1566,1410293

In 1990, a year after Wiley allegedly graduated, there were rumors the college would close (due to problems that had apparently existed while Wiley had been a student). The federal "Office of Education had threatened to terminate all of its federally backed student financial aid programs […] audits performed in 1987 and after, indicated that the Guaranteed Student Loans (GSL) and other programs were awarded before the college thoroughly investigated backgrounds of those applying for assistance and resulted in a high default rate for repayments. Further inquiries found that Sojourner-Douglass had not disseminated federal monies awarded to recipients by the mandated deadline and improperly filed student records needed to conduct required bi-annual audits. […] 'Sojourner-Douglass had a 40 percent default rate which is considered high'"

Tyler, Joy M. "Sojourner-Douglass college continues to survive." Baltimore Afro-American. March 7, 1992: A11. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Y4clAAAAIBAJ&sjid=X_UFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1228,1237179

In 1993 it had an enrollment of only about 200 students: "Sojourner-Douglass College lays bias to state agency." Baltimore Afro-American. September 11, 1993. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=k58lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7fQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2516,1781655

Questionable financials for about thirty years! Have people involved with the college been audited?

Supposedly Wiley graduated summa cum laude. I'd be curious to know if everybody who graduated there graduated summa cum laude....

With the NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services having written in response to a FOIL request that Mr. Wiley “has not completed any training, including basic training, reported to DCJS" and with the NYS Department of State Assistant Records Access Officer having written in response to a FOIL request that they could find no Oath of Office on file for Mr. Wiley for 1996 or 1999 when SUNY peace officers became full police officers, and his dodgy degree, one really has to wonder how he continues to be employed there - and to be one of the highest-paid chiefs in SUNY and in the Albany area for that matter. His love for football, his having been an athlete, his having been a coach, his creating a ride-along program for football players, his police getting paid extra to do security for the NY Giants' summer training camp at UAlbany when it was there, his decision not to report a gang rape by UAlbany football players to the Albany County DA's office ASAP, etc. all likely answer the question, though.

In 1996 when he was hired, SUNY Albany had a need for a police chief who would lead the department to solving the disappearance of SUNY Albany student Karen Wilson and who would be able to handle a campus shooting case like the then-recent one of Ralph Tortorici. Instead, not long after Wiley was hired Suzanne Lyall went missing under circumstances somewhat similar to Karen Wilson's - something that should not have happened if the Wilson case had been given proper attention. Had Wiley ever worked a missing persons case as an officer while in Maryland, much less led one as a chief? I doubt it!

Wiley's signed off on false Clery Act reports for years. He's willing to back threats made against a student who dares to report crimes. The man belongs in prison.

preventing campus shootings

Aran Mull, Deputy Chief of the UAlbany Police Department, said that campus shootings have a “profound impact on community and national psyche,” which is why prevention is key.

UPD is credited with creating the first New York State Division of Criminal Justice certified active shooter response training course.

"Navigating Through the Campus Shooting Crisis." Albany Student Press. October 20, 2015. http://www.albanystudentpress.net/navigating-through-the-campus-shooting-crisis/

When UAlbany Police have undermined the integrity of firearms audits, one has to wonder how effective UAlbany active shooter response training might be.

When UAlbany Police have testified for court that they're inadequately trained, once again one has to wonder.

"In a sworn statement given to State Police on May 19, a fellow SUNY investigator, Matthew A. Griffin, said that Knoebel had called him on May 17 and asked him to remove two pistols from her locker at the UAlbany police headquarters.

"He said Knoebel was comfortable storing her departmental weapon in a police armory safe but she asked him to take another gun, a .25-caliber Ravens Arms pistol, to his private residence for safekeeping.

"Griffin said he did not know at the time that Knoebel was facing imminent arrest on federal drug charges. He told State Police that he only learned of those charges the following day, May 18, after he had already returned Knoebel's unregistered handgun to the police station and logged it in as evidence. [...]

Griffin, 39, has been with SUNY police since March 1997 and was promoted to investigator in 2003. He said Knoebel told him in April that she was considering filing for divorce from her husband, Kenneth, who also was arrested on marijuana charges. Griffin said at that time he advised her to bring any guns she had at home to the police station for safekeeping because a divorce could trigger "emotional" reactions.

Lyons, Brendan J. "SUNY police officer also faces gun charge; Cop arrested on drug charge allegedly asked colleague to move gun." Albany Times Union. July 23, 2011: B1. http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=15255123

In that May 2011 incident, two UAlbany officers committed serious violations of firearms policies. Griffin, in particular, was grossly irresponsible in advising Knoebel - who he believed to be potentially emotionally unstable - to bring all of her personal firearms onto campus. And why did UAlbany Police apparently not notify the system administration office of university police about the incident (a FOIL request for the notification turned up nothing)?

Griffin, a man who clearly lacked the most basic common sense with respect to firearms, was UAlbany's "Chief Firearms Instructor"! Among other things I wonder: do UAlbany Police continue to illegally store unregistered junk guns in their lockers on campus?

"A University at Albany student was assaulted on campus by two men, one of whom appeared to have a handgun. [...] The victim knew the assailants, who are not UAlbany students. Police said no shots were fired and that the assailants fled in a red Honda Civic. [...] University police said there was no danger to UAlbany community and that police agencies have been notified to look out for the Honda."

Waldman, Scott. "UAlbany student assaulted on campus." Albany Times Union. December 13, 2012. http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/UAlbany-student-assaulted-on-campus-4116702.php

If the identity of the men was known, why not identify them; if the red Honda Civic was not a stolen one, why not list the year and license plate number; if they were presumed armed, why were they not considered a danger to the community? If it was that the men were presumed innocent until proven guilty, then why run the article at all; why note that the red Honda Civic was something people were trying to locate?

"No official word on why the law enforcement officer felt it necessary to wear a weapon while moving his child out of the dorm. Although it's apparently legal for an off-duty officer to carry a weapon, Luntta said he was not sure if the man's possession of the gun on campus was a violation of school policy"

Waldman, Scott. "Campus Notebook: Tense moments for UAlbany students." Albany Times Union. May 16, 2013. http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Campus-Notebook-Tense-moments-for-UAlbany-4523960.php

It's not hard to learn what the school policies are about weapons on campus. There's a multitude of rules, all saying more or less the same thing: it's not allowed.

"The rules of the State University Board of Trustees (8 NYCRR §535.3 (j)) prohibit the possession of air guns, firearms, rifles, shotguns or other weapons on a state-operated campus of the University without the written authorization of the campus president."

"No air gun, firearm, rifle, shotgun or weapon may be possessed, stored, discharged, loaded or used on property owned or leased by the University unless the person in possession of said device meets the requirements set forth in these administrative procedures. The president of each state-operated campus may, in accordance with the provisions of section 590.3 of the rules of the University Board of Trustees (8 NYCRR § 590.3), grant written authorization to students, faculty, staff or other persons to permit the possession and storage of air guns, firearms, rifles, shotguns and weapons on campus only where such possession is required or permitted for the purposes specified in said section. When authorized, they will be stored unloaded in an appropriately secured area within or under the control of the University police department of each state-operated campus."

"When authorization is given to University police officers to carry firearms on duty, the weapon to be carried shall be state-owned and approved by the campus president. Only an officially issued firearm will be carried at any time on duty."

"Firearms on State-operated Campuses" policy item http://www.suny.edu/sunypp/documents.cfm?doc_id=367

Evidently Mr. Luntta's paid over $100,000! http://new-york-employees.findthebest.com/l/323009/Karl-Luntta If only we were all so well paid for our own ill-advised or ignorant statements....

One of the best ways to make UAlbany safer might be to replace UAlbany Police and other officials and administrators with better men and women!

On the topic of preventing UAlbany shootings... fraternities at UAlbany are at least as dangerous as UAlbany Police and UAlbany athletics. The student who drank about 60 ounces of vodka in a hazing incident, died from approximately 40 shots to the head (supposing them 1.5 each, a fairly standard shot glass size). A healthy number of shots for someone who is of age, not an alcoholic, etc. is just two shots.

How many hazing deaths have there been at UAlbany? It's difficult to say. There was a particularly nasty case involving a wide receiver on the SUNY Albany football team stripping to his underwear and entering the cold, murky, polluted body of runoff water filled with metal debris called "Indian Pond" wherein he was ">electrocuted to death in front of twelve other pledges and ten fraternity brothers. Because it supposedly did not involve coercion, it wasn't held to be hazing. You know, because guys are always eager to strip to their underwear in front of a bunch of other guys in public and enter a cold, murky, polluted body of runoff water filled with metal debris....

Questions about how the pond had become electrified and why the university hadn't done anything about it being electrified after having been warned by a student about it seem to have gone unresolved, as questions about deaths at UAlbany often seem to do.

It doesn't help matters that the campus judicial administrator at UAlbany, Clarence McNeill, had been a member of a fraternity at UAlbany. Not necessarily damning in and of itself (there are good fraternities), but McNeill's a nasty piece of work as this blog has repeatedly indicated. Also, consider how some of the usual suspects at UAlbany have handled hazing and drinking in the past:

Photographs suggesting hazing and underage drinking by members of the University at Albany women’s lacrosse team have surfaced on the Internet, the second time in two weeks a local college team is facing questions about the off-the-field behavior of its athletes. […] However, all of the images had been removed by 3 p.m. Wednesday, after Times Union reporters started contacting team members for comment.

Singelais, Mark. "Web ensnares UAlbany team." Albany Times Union. June 1, 2006: C1.

Photographs documenting athletic team hazing at UAlbany disappeared (*poof*) after the Albany Times Union, which regularly covers UAlbany sports and which is published by the President of the Board of Directors of the UAlbany Foundation and which is (or historically has been) available free of charge on campus, started contacting team members… fancy that.

There is no evidence to support hazing allegations against the University at Albany women’s lacrosse team, the school announced Wednesday after a three-week investigation prompted by photographs posted on the Internet. […]

The investigation was run by university counsel John Reilly and associate vice president for student success John Murphy, who interviewed women's lacrosse head coach Lindsey Hart and assorted players. University police chief Frank Wiley assisted the inquiry.

Singelais, Mark. “School says no hazing at party; But UAlbany investigation did find alcohol use.” Albany Times Union. June 22, 2006: C1.

Three men employed by UAlbany interview a group of women students, and reportedly none of the women report hazing. Not exactly surprising.

Did the three men interview the women individually - which could be intimidating and inappropriate - or did the three men interview the team of women all at once, in which case there might be strong peer pressure not to say anything? And if any women did say anything, might not they have been threatened by Reilly, Murphy, and/or Wiley not to speak up about it again, considering the type of men Reilly, Murphy, and Wiley are?

With respect to last year's hazing death:

UAlbany sent NEWS10 ABC a list of hazing prevention tips but declined a request for an interview. The school said “We don’t want to get involved.”

Yonkunas, Rachel. "UAlbany students call for harsher penalties after hazing death." News10 ABC. October 23, 2015. http://news10.com/2015/10/23/ualbany-students-call-for-harsher-penalties-after-hazing-death/

That certainly sounds like something the school would say.

State Government "Accountability" & the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act

http://osc.state.ny.us/audits/allaudits/093014/13s70.pdf

http://osc.state.ny.us/audits/90day/13s70r.pdf

The above 2014 Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act compliance audit does not appear to have addressed the issues brought to the NYS Office of the State Comptroller’s attention in an e-mail which OSC acknowledged (see below October 2012 e-mails). One of the serious issues: the State University of New York at Albany had not been properly maintaining its sexual offender registry for years.

• Sexual Offender Registry #1 "© 2009 University at Albany"

"There are currently three (4) [sic] registered sex offenders enrolled or working at the University. The following Information has been released:" was followed by a list of six (6) offenders. Accessed: October 19, 2012 Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6BXAjbUOP Accessed: February 19, 2013 Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6EZ55k2vF (it still read © 2009 at that time)

• Sexual Offender Registry #2 No date (probably circa 2007-2008?)

"There are currently two (2) registered sex offenders enrolled at the University. The following Information has been released:" was followed by a list of three (3) offenders. Accessed: October 19, 2012 Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6BXAsiiOT http://police.albany.edu/2ColPage.asp?PageSName=SOR2 now redirects to UPD's homepage

Obviously two sexual offender registries should not have been online at the same time, listing different people, both of them with obvious basic mathematical issues (e.g. three does not equal 4 and does not equal six), and both obviously years out of date. On a campus where there are two unsolved disappearances of female students, Karen Wilson and Suzanne Lyall, that is appalling. Are such issues consistent with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act or the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act?

The registry I think now may have html code that automatically updates the year on bottom of the page http://police.albany.edu/SOR2.shtml “© 2015 University at Albany” regardless of whether the registry has actually been updated. The simple suggestion to various parties of an explicit statement on the registry regarding when it was last updated and by whom was not implemented.

It all does raise some concerns…

Unfortunately, it’s hard finding someone in a position to do something about it who also would see the need to do something about it. SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher and SUNY Police Commissioner Paul Berger (who had been a member of the command staff of the UAlbany Police while the UAlbany Police were failing to maintain their sexual offender registry) seem to prefer that campuses not be secure, that students, faculty, staff, and visitors to campuses not be safe. One hopes better people will be appointed someday!

From: MVEDDER@osc.state.ny.us

Date: October 22, 2012 at 10:23:19 AM EDT

Cc: ABROOKS@osc.state.ny.us

Subject: Addressing SUNY Sexual Offender Registry and Clery Act Issues

This is to thank you for your email of October 13, 2012, which raised certain concerns regarding compliance with Clery Act reporting requirements, and other matters, at the State University of New York. We have provided the information you supplied with your email to staff in our State Government Accountability for their consideration with respect to future audit planning.

We would also suggest that you contact officials of the SUNY Central Administration offices with respect to the concerns you have raised regarding the State University of New York at Albany. They can be reached at www.suny.edu, or at

SUNY System Administration

State University Plaza

353 Broadway

Albany, NY 12246

Phone: 518.320.1100

Mary Vedder

Secretary II

mvedder@osc.state.ny.us

OSC, Division of Legal Services

State Government Accountability

(518) 474-5748

From: [Me]

Date: October 13, 2012 at 5:26:00 PM EDT

To: contactus@osc.state.ny.us

Subject: addressing SUNY Sexual Offender Registry and Clery Act issues?

Albany County Comptroller Mike Conners wrote me on September 27, 2012 5:36:37 AM that he'd forwarded an e-mail of mine (it is included below) to the NYS Comptroller, but I have not heard back from the NYS Comptroller's Office at all. I had tried sending it to the Comptroller's Office myself originally, but perhaps the e-mail address is not one that is working.

I reported it to the Office of Sex Offender Management / Sex Offender Registry at infodcjs@dcjs.ny.gov but they did not respond. The Albany County Sheriff's Office indicated it's not their jurisdiction, if I understood them. The Albany County Comptroller wrote it's not within his purview. The City of Albany Police haven't responded.

I'm not quite sure where else to try. [...]

From: [me]

Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 1:04 AM

To: InfoDCJS@dcjs.ny.gov; investigations@osc.state.ny.us; Comptroller Investigations Web Mail; Conners, Michael

Subject: Sex Offender Registry and Clery Act issues?

I'm not quite sure of the relevant offices, so I'm e-mailing several offices that seem relevant. DCJS because of the sex offenders, NYS Comptroller because of past Clery Act violation investigations, Albany County Comptroller as seemingly relevant jurisdiction.

There's a couple of seemingly-Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act-related issues I wished to raise: (1) contradictory and possibly outdated information regarding sex offenders at the University at Albany and (2) contradictory information regarding who the Campus Security Authorities at the University at Albany are for the purposes of the Clery Act.

1) University at Albany Sexual Offender Registry

"There are currently three (4) registered sex offenders enrolled or working at the University. The following Information has been released:"

http://police.albany.edu/SOR2.shtml

Typically, when one types a number as a word and then follows it by a digit in parentheses, they'll match.

Following the colon on that page are not three (3), or four (4), but six (6) registered sex offenders.

[Other apparent specific issues regarding the above]

2) University at Albany Campus Security Authorities for the purposes of the Clery Act

The Annual Safety Report/Clery Act Report http://police.albany.edu/ASR.shtml on page 58 states "The DCJS Sex Offender Registry site may be found on the web (See the link to the right)". Since there's no link to the right within the PDF that I can see, it seems to be cut and paste from elsewhere, perhaps from the website. Possibly more care should be taken in writing the Clery Act Report, since the NYS Comptroller has after all found that UAlbany has had a number of Clery Act violations in the past.

Another issue regarding problems in relation to the Clery Act: page 21 of that report and also http://police.albany.edu/CSA.shtml (c) 2009 identify the Campus Security Authorities under the Clery Act as:

• Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education

• Professional staff in Student Success except Student Health Center and Counseling Center staff

• Senior staff in the Office of Human Resource Management

• Academic Advisors in Advisement Services Center Undergraduate Studies (ASC/US) and Educational Opportunity Program (EOP)

• Professional staff in Athletics, including coaches

The Coordinated Response for Sexual Assault on page 5 at http://www.albany.edu/counseling_center/sarc/docs/SA%20PROTOCOL%20ammended%2012-10-09.pdf (evidently dated October 9, 2012) identifies CSAs as staff in

• Residential Life

• Student Life

• University Police

• Conflict Resolution and Civic Responsibility

• Athletics

• Undergraduate Studies

• Affirmative Action

The Student Code of Conduct Appendix J at http://www.albany.edu/studentconduct/27173.php (c) 2012 and page 32 of http://www.albany.edu/studentconduct/assets/Community_Rights_FINAL_10-28-11.pdf (evidently dated October 28, 2011) identifies CSAs as staff in:

• Residential Life

• Student Involvement & Leadership

• University Police

• Conflict Resolution and Civic Responsibility

• Athletics

• Undergraduate Studies and Diversity and Inclusion

Residential Life, Student Involvement & Leadership, and Conflict Resolution and Civic Responsibility fall under Student Success http://www.albany.edu/studentsuccess/docs/OrgChart2010.pdf but Appendix J and the Coordinated Response for Sexual Assault identify other offices within Student Success. The Coordinated Response for Sexual Assault and the Student Code of Conduct Appendix J thus seemingly leave out the rest of the professional staff in Student Success that the annual Clery Act report includes. The annual Clery Act report leaves out Diversity and Inclusion http://www.albany.edu/diversityandinclusion/

Which of the three different lists of Campus Security Authorities is the correct one?

It's not clear to me why the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (who is also the Dean for Undergraduate Education) would be a CSA while the Dean for Graduate Studies does not appear to be a CSA.

It would be nice if the previous annual reports were available online as well?

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“Make you the world a bit better or more beautiful because you have lived in it.” - Edward W. Bok

Hearst's dirty cop Paul Berger appointed SUNY-wide Police Commissioner

A retirement ceremony for Bruce McBride, commissioner of the State University of New York Campus Police, was held Wednesday at the SUNY Plaza.

Paul Berger will replace McBride as head of campus police for SUNY.

"SUNY police commissioner McBride retires." Albany Times Union. July 2, 2015. http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/SUNY-police-commissioner-McBride-retires-6361432.php

Naturally, the Times Union did not mention that Paul Berger had been a SUNY Albany police officer, or that the SUNY Albany Police had been paid extra to do security for the NY Giants summer football training camp that the Times Union helped lure to and kept at SUNY Albany (while the Times Union published a defense of hazing by the NY Giants), or that the Times Union publisher George Randolph Hearst III is the President of the Board of Directors of the University at Albany Foundation. The Times Union isn't exactly known for being scrupulous about their potential (or actual) conflicts of interest.

Because the Times Union covers the University at Albany, its sports programs and the Giants summer camp, there's a possibility for conflict of interest […] "We simply talk about this a lot and do our darndest to prevent it"

Bryce, Jill. "Giants camp gets new backers." Daily Gazette [Schenectady, NY]. July 19, 1997: B6.

Sure you are.

Dirty SUNY Albany cop Paul Berger appointed as SUNY-wide Police Commissioner. Had he ever dreamed incompetence and corruption would take him so far? Whether it be fudging his resume or providing false court testimony, he's come a long way!

While at SUNY Albany, Berger failed to solve the disappearances of Karen Wilson and Suzanne Lyall. (Wilson disappeared in 1985; Berger joined the SUNY Albany Police in 1988.) With Berger now as SUNY Police Commissioner, imagine how many more disappearances there will be that he'll fail to solve! With the shining example of incompetence and corruption that is Paul Berger, think of how many more incompetent and corrupt SUNY Police officers the public has to look forward to for years to come!

It makes one quite ill. The public deserves better than this. Victims deserve better than this.

Casey Rapetorium

Oh, somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright,

The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light;

And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout,

But there is no joy in Minerva—education has struck out.

The man who established the charity that on Wednesday was revealed to have donated $25 million to Albany Medical Center, William Duker, was a high-flying Manhattan attorney before being convicted for defrauding the federal government in the late 1990s. Duker then resurfaced in the Capital Region about a decade ago as a successful venture capitalist. [...]

No information about William Duker's current professional activities was released by Albany Med Wednesday. Neither Albany Med nor Duker responded to requests for comment.

No financial information could be found for the Bernard and Millie Foundation. A filing for the Bernard and Millie Children's Foundation, which includes Duker, his wife, Sharon, and son, West, as directors, listed its assets as just under $31,000 at the end of 2012. [...]

Duker reportedly earned millions as a Manhattan attorney in the 1990s. He was part of the legal team hired by the federal government to seek damages from junk-bond king Michael Milken, according to previous Times Union reporting. Duker was later charged with defrauding the government by inflating his bills by $1.4 million. In 1997, he pleaded guilty and was disbarred. He served 16 months of a 33-month sentence that was handed down by then-federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor (now a U.S. Supreme Court justice).

Judge Sotomayor claimed to struggle with his sentence at the time, given the benefits of his work to the government, according to a story in the New York Times. But she was swayed by the gravity of his offense and Duker's attempts to cover up his crime, the newspaper reported.

Hughes, Claire. "Albany Med donor's wayward path." Albany Times Union. May 28, 2014. http://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Albany-Med-donor-s-wayward-path-5511202.php

Criminal: What do I have to do in order for the newspaper to downplay my known crimes and not to investigate further?

Newspaper: Well, our publisher is trying to undermine the safety and academic integrity of a certain university he's involved with while also fueling his desire (common among filthy rich white men) to feel like he owns several sports teams and their players, giving our sports section more to cover, and potentially driving more business to the arena we own downtown.

UAlbany announced its athletic program received a $10 million donation from The Bernard and Millie Children's Foundation, set up by 1975 graduate William Duker, his wife, Sharon (Casey) Duker, and their son William "West" Duker. [...]

"This is a great day for UAlbany athletics," said UAlbany Foundation president George R. Hearst III, who is also publisher of the Times Union. [...]

A Times Union story in May 2014 reported William Duker earned millions as a Manhattan attorney in the 1990s. Hired by the federal government to seek damages from junk-bond king Michael Milken, Duker was later charged with defrauding the government by inflating his bills by $1.4 million. He pleaded guilty and was disbarred in 1997. He served 16 months of a 33-month sentence.

The Dukers declined an interview request through a UAlbany spokesman after Thursday's ceremony.

Singelais, Mark. "After $10 million gift, UAlbany names facility 'Tom and Mary Casey Stadium'; Athletic department receives $10 million gift from Bernard and Millie Childrens Foundation." Albany Times Union. October 8, 2015. http://www.timesunion.com/sports/article/UAlbany-names-athletic-facility-Tom-and-Mary-6559019.php

Five paragraphs by the Times Union on Duker's crimes and the lack of financial info for the Bernard and Millie Foundation following a major donation to Albany Medical Center. One paragraph by the Times Union on Duker's crimes and no mention of the lack of financial information for the Bernard and Millie Foundation following a major donation to the university for which Times Union publisher George Randolph Hearst III is the president of the Foundation. Funny thing that. No potential conflicts of interest involved at all there, nope.

Also, as mentioned here previously, UAlbany football coach Greg Gattuso (mentioned in the above article) is a former Penn State football player for Coach Joe Paterno and Assistant Coach Jerry Sandusky, a former assistant coach for Joe Paterno alongside fellow assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, and someone who continues to carry water for Joe Paterno even after his death. Former UAlbany football coach Bob Ford after whom UAlbany's football field is named (also mentioned in the above article), had been an acolyte of Joe Paterno and continued to worship Joe Paterno even after Paterno's support of sexual assault and pedophila became more publicly recognized.

Summers, Nick. "Joe Paterno’s Troubling Attitude Toward Sex Charges." The Daily Beast. November 12, 2011. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/11/12/joe-paterno-s-troubling-attitude-toward-sex-charges.html

How does a $10,000,000 donation to the University at Albany's athletic department benefit education at the university - education being the very reason for its existence? It doesn't.

This, at a university which is notorious for cutting academic departments and losing a whole college.

This, at a university where there's been numerous issues with the athletic department? Issues from NCAA violations...

McGuire, Mark. "UAlbany suspends longtime softball coach; Self-reports NCAA Level III violations." Daily Gazette. September 16, 2015. http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2015/sep/16/ualbany-suspends-longtime-softball-coach/

... to at least one gang-rape by UAlbany football players which UAlbany "Police Chief" J. "Frank" Wiley (an ex-athlete, ex-coach, football fan) chose not to report to the Albany County District Attorney until the media forced him to report it and about which he gloated "there is no protocol." It is revolting.

A Moment of Silence for the Umpqua Community College Victims - and the victims of SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher

“College campuses are meant to provide students, faculty, and staff with a safe haven where they can teach, learn, and grow,” said SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher in a news release. “It is unbearably saddening when a peaceful campus community like Umpqua Community College is disrupted by violence. As those affected by this devastating tragedy continue to heal, the entire State University of New York family will keep them in our thoughts.”

Bump, Bethany. "SUNY to observe national moment of silence Thursday for UCC victims." Albany Times Union. October 8, 2015. http://blog.timesunion.com/schools/suny-to-observe-national-moment-of-silence-thursday-for-ucc-victims/3291/

Nancy Zimpher, hypocrite, has done much to ensure that SUNY campuses are not a safe haven. How about a moment of silence also for those at SUNY for whose deaths she is more or less responsible?

"SUNY police chiefs serve at the pleasure of the campus president, thus are motivated to keep crime stats down by any means […] SUNY can no longer afford to staff, or overstaff, a body, or overstaff, a body which is subject to inefficiencies, manipulation, cronyism, ill motivation and mismanagement."

Peter Barry, VP & Legislative Director of NYS University Police Officers Union Local 1792 of the American Federation of State County & Municipal Employees AFSCME, Council 82 & AFL-CIO. (127-128). http://webcitation.org/6Sz9DNrcH

How much has Nancy Zimpher done to eliminate the known corruption and incompetence among SUNY Police that endanger students, faculty, staff, and visitors to SUNY campuses? Nothing, AFAIK. The problems have grown worse under her, as she pockets more and more of the salary and perks she never earns.

In this small upstate college town, there were many who tried to comprehend how a popular 77-year-old professor who championed antiwar philosophies would have come to such a violent end: stabbed to death in his office on Friday, by, the police said, a graduate student whom he knew.

Then there were those who said they had noticed signs of erratic behavior by the suspect, a graduate student at Binghamton University, who, they said, was becoming increasingly fearful — so much so that his roommate said he had warned university officials of his concerns.

Schmidt, Michael S. and Michael D. Regan." "Binghamton Student Says He Warned Officials." N. Y. Times. December 6, 2009. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/nyregion/07binghamton.html

The family of Alexandra Kogut is considering whether to sue New York state and The College at Brockport for failing to provide enough security that might have prevented the freshman’s death, according to court records.

A notice of claim filed two months after 18-year-old Kogut was beaten to death on Sept. 29, 2012, inside her dorm room by her boyfriend, Clayton Whittemore, alleges that “campus police/security fell below the standard of ordinary care” expected of an entity that legally takes on some of the responsibilities of a parent.

"Koguts consider legal action against SUNY Brockport; The family of Alexandra Kogut is considering whether to sue New York state and The College at Brockport for failing to provide enough security that might have prevented the freshman’s death, according to court records."

LaDuca, Rocco. Utica Observer-Dispatch. June 3, 2014. http://www.uticaod.com/article/20140603/News/140609762

How many students, faculty, staff, and visitors to SUNY campuses might still be alive if there were a Chancellor who genuinely cared about and who actually did something about making those campuses "a safe haven where they can teach, learn, and grow"? How many murders, overdoses, suicides, accidents, etc. might have been prevented?

Clarence L. McNeil & USED on cease and desist orders issued to victims and witnesses

Witness Interview Statement

State University at Albany Case Number: 02-12-2157

[Leading question from USED:]

"The Code of Conduct grants you 'express authority' to enforce decisions, which would include the ability to issue cease and desist notification/orders. Is that correct?

"The witness [Clarence McNeill] stated, 'Yes.' [...]

[USED:] "Have you issued other cease and desist orders to other students?

"The witness [Clarence McNeill] said, 'Yes, of course.'"

Actual definition of a cease and desist order suggests it is something that cannot be issued by a single individual, or outside of a trial of some kind. USED knew no trial to have occurred when they posed their leading question, and did not (could not?) point to any part of the Code of Conduct that grants Clarence McNeill to issue cease and desist orders at all - much less to victims or witnesses.

cease-and-de·sist order

[sēs-ənd-di-zist-, -sist-]

: an order from a court or quasi-judicial tribunal to stop engaging in a particular activity or practice (as an unfair labor practice) compare injunction , mandamus , stay

http://dictionary.findlaw.com/definition/order.html

A below-the-belt punch to victims at SUNY

Assistant District Attorneys Chantelle Cleary and Carmen Warner were working out at a local gym when they pretended, as a joke, to punch each other in sensitive areas of their bodies, according to people with knowledge of the situation.

A photo was taken. It went on Facebook.

Gavin, Robert. "Albany County prosecutors suspended over Facebook picture." Albany Times Union. March 12, 2014. http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Albany-County-prosecutors-suspended-over-Facebook-5308663.php

Chantelle Cleary is a self-proclaimed woman of many hats. As the University at Albany’s Title IX Coordinator, Cleary acts as an investigator, an educator, and a preventer.

She is responsible for investigating any possible cases of sexual assault, ensuring that investigations are fair and prompt, teaching others about their obligations and rights, assisting in various prevention methods, hosting educational programs for both students and faculty members, and assisting victims to get them any help they may need.

Frank, Janie. "New Title IX Coordinator comes to UAlbany." Albany Student Press. March 10, 2015. http://www.albanystudentpress.net/new-title-ix-coordinator-comes-to-ualbany/

Not exactly a promising hire!

One wonders whether at the DA's office she handled any cases involving UAlbany, and if so how they were handled.

Her predecessor Tamra Minor at UAlbany was content not to respond to victims and to let victims be threatened. Will Ms. Cleary be any better?

"Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops"

"Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops." September 8, 2000. http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=95836&page=1#.Tv-OZSNWplw

Old news, but worth reviving. Stupid judges back stupid (or shrewd?) politicians who want stupid cops. If the dubious Wunderlic test is used by SUNY (as it has been by the National Football League, whose judgment is less than impeccable) then SUNY cops, presumably, are required to test even lower than real police? I wonder if "Chief" Wiley could have ever managed to score higher than 3 out of 50 without cheating?

Apparently if any smart person wants to become a police officer, he or she would have to intentionally get a certain number of questions wrong. A test so easily gamed is that much more dubious for that reason.

Psychology and Torture

Ackerman, Spencer. "Anti-torture reforms opposed within psychology group after damning report; Tempers rise within American Psychological Association, which independent review recently found was complicit in brutal military and CIA interrogation." The Guardian. August 2, 2015. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/02/psychological-association-anti-torture-reforms

Here's hoping the unethical and criminal elements in the APA finally get purged... and prosecuted and convicted!

I'd reported sociopath Michael W. Barberich to Jeanette Altarriba for his academic dishonesty, faculty ethics violations, and sexual harassment. Altarriba enabled Barberich's perversions and crimes and she likewise forced me to remain in Barberich's class continuing to be subjected to his offensive behavior as a condition of receiving my degree and graduating - quid pro quo sexual harassment from the woman who has this on her resume:

2011 Interviewer - Search Committee - Coordinator for Sexual Assault Prevention/Staff Psychologist - University Counseling Center

2010-present Chair - Presidential Advisory Committee on Sexual Assault

http://www.albany.edu/psychology/files/CV_Altarriba_vita_1013.doc

Altarriba, among other things, permitted the middle-aged white male American Barberich to joke about torturing a young female Asian foreign national teaching assistant. Psychologist Altarriba's down with joking about torture - as apparently is the APA (who after all were complicit in torture). The APA announced Altarriba would be getting an award "for her outstanding contributions to teaching and training ethnic minority psychologists." "One of the most rewarding parts of my career has been to stimulate and motivate students of color to achieve their goals, to overcome any obstacles that they have experienced or are currently experiencing, and to move forward towards a life that is meaningful and fulfilling, both personally and professionally," Altarriba lied. Apparently that "stimulation" of students of color by Altarriba also involved letting the white Barberich joke about hooking up a student of color to electrodes and shocking her until she screams... but how is that meaningful or fulfilling?

Barberich noted to Altarriba that I'd also reported her unethical behavior, after which she falsely accused me of inappropriate use of technology, and she libeled me to members of the department, claiming I'd been sent a cease and desist order and that I'd violated it twice when in fact I'd never been sent a cease and desist order at all. Her unethical and criminal behavior in the service of Barberich's perversions and crimes might be what earned her the promotion to Vice Provost and Dean for Undergraduate Education, so she could help UAlbany become even better for sociopathic employees and much, much worse for anyone actually seeking an education or hoping to avoid being sexually assaulted on campus by sociopathic employees. If that's not deserving of an award, what is? O.o

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(See also "Do not consider that you have become any kind of 'target' [for retaliation] as some have suggested" etc.)

Photo of Ms. Altarriba adapted from http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.albany.edu/lacs/Altarriba2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.albany.edu/lacs/altarriba.shtml&h=200&w=266&tbnid=nAp-nU7C7hlDTM:&docid=SG88e2B56ob_6M&ei=Su2-VeSnN8yggwSuhIv4Ag&tbm=isch&client=safari&ved=0CB8QMygCMAJqFQoTCOT0sIKJjMcCFUzQgAodLsICLw That ridiculous citation to Google Image search results is a type of citation Barberich taught was perfectly fine - one doesn't need to know who authored a text or image, just where it was found - not that he or his TAs always even knew that much themselves when they were plagiarizing others' material!

UAlbany's Police "Chief" J. "Frank" Wiley tells the truth for once!

“The way we do policing is fundamentally ineffective,” [J. "Frank" Wiley] said.

St. Amour, Madeline. "UAlbany-sponsored police forum sparks discussion about community-police relations." Albany Student Press. January 27, 2015. http://www.albanystudentpress.net/ualbany-sponsored-police-forum-sparks-discussion-about-community-police-relations/

Given Wiley's lack of education, lack of training, lack of experience, lack of intelligence, lack of ethics, etc. it's pretty much a given the way he and his underlings do policing is fundamentally ineffective. Kudos to Wiley for the admission. Wiley, being Wiley, then went on to lie his ass off, naturally.

[Wiley's] suggestions were to create a concrete code of “officer behavior” and a policy to enforce this code, to allow for system complaints, to increase transparency, to conduct climate surveys, and to incorporate direct observations through the use of body cameras. He also talked about involving the community through advisory groups that specifically target the youth, as well as academics (so that research can be put to practical use). Finally, Wiley proposed a new way of looking at policing: he said that the focus should be on “advocacy and support” rather than enforcement.

Wiley supports a kind of policing known as “community policing” and he referred to the “Peelian Principles,” which are a set of nine principles created by Sir Robert Peel, meant to be guidelines for what an ethical police unit should do and be. Wiley said that at UPD, officers must use at least one principle in every decision they make. He suggested to the crowd that they learn the principles and ask that their police force use them.

There are some concrete codes of officer behavior and a policy to enforce it: the SUNY Police Manual and the UAlbany Police Manual. Both are poor, but they are in writing - yet they're not enforced in part due to Wiley's idiocy and corruption. Wiley doesn't believe in transparency, and if they were to use body cameras they would inevitably in some cases "lose" the video they take. It certainly figures that Wiley thinks that law enforcement officers should cease focusing on law enforcement: he's a lawless man.

The "Peelian Principles" are a bit of BS the UAlbany Police regularly use to pad out their annual reports, accompanied by false statements about how the UAlbany Police allegedly abide by those principles. In reality, the UAlbany Police do not use those principles.

Our philosophy, strategies and tactics are, and have always been informed by Sir Robert Peel, the father of policing. Among his standards for effective policing are:

1. THE ABSENCE OF DISORDER ‐

Emphasis on prevention through high presence and robust educational programming;

Restrained use of force with no personnel complaints for 2012 alleging the improper use of force.

2. RESPONSIVENESS TO COMMUNITY CONCERNS ‐

100% of all crimes are followed up;

99% of calls for service were responded to within four minutes or less.

3. POLICE ACTIVITY ‐

University at Albany Police Department cleared 50.3% of its crime cases; the national average is 20%.

4. IMPARTIAL SERVICE OF THE LAW ‐

There were no allegations of biased policing;

Three personnel complaints were filed. They were investigated and determined to be unfounded;

All gender, racial, and ethnic demographics are published, as we believe impartial service is best demonstrated through absolute transparency.

http://police.albany.edu/UPDAnnualReport2012.pdf

UAlbany Police do not have a "high presence" on campus (what they do all day other than attend athletic events for their own enjoyment, I don't know) nor do they engage in "robust educational programming." "100% of all crimes are followed up": BS. The only way that's true is by virtue of "followed up" being so vague; throwing a report of a crime into a trashcan could constitute "following up." "No personnel complaints": BS. Many people don't feel it would be safe to make them; when they are made the UAlbany Police will ignore them, or they'll be "investigated and determined unfounded." The UAlbany Police and the SUNY Police do not have internal affairs bureaus, so one can imagine how often complaints are actually taken and genuinely investigated.

UAlbany's clearing of its crime cases is one of the more outrageous lies. There's no way in hell they really clear 50% of crime cases: they might get there by refusing to take reports about crimes, by declaring cases to be unfounded without properly investigating them, and other methods that amount to facilitation of crime.

Yellow Journalist Hearst's Times Useless reports on Heart's own dirty cops

There's a nice above-the-fold cover story by the Albany Times Union about the dirty cops George Randolph Hearst III bought, the UAlbany Police. Dirty cop Aran Mull in particular gets a lot of press, and a couple photos. Naturally no mention is made of the Times Useless' publisher Hearst also being the President of the Board of Directors of the University at Albany Foundation. Naturally no mention is made of the Times Useless having paid UAlbany cops extra to do security for the NY Giants' summer training camp at UAlbany that the TU helped lure there, work that took them away from protecting students, faculty, and staff - i.e. work that took them away from their actual jobs.

These are the same cops who supposedly didn't know their own decorated co-worker Investigator Wendy Knoebel had a major area drug operation at her own home. For all the public knows, Knoebel was growing drugs for her coworkers - the TU never reported where marijuana from her 200 or so plants was going that I ever saw. This is at a campus where deaths by overdose are disturbingly commonplace.

Mention is made of the discretion police supposedly have not to make arrests when crimes have been committed. Is that alleged discretion genuinely written into law? When referrals are made of drug users, drug dealers, or drug manufacturers, is the law really being followed? Who gets referred (athletes and donors' kids, maybe?) and who gets arrested? If referrals are made to "judicial administrator" Clarence Loser McNeill, a skinhead with a vicious love of sexual assault and other crimes, what purpose does that serve?

Cuomo continues to lie brazenly about campus sexual assaults

"This is a call to action for everyone who believes students should be protected by their college or university, and New York should be a leader in the fight against sexual violence on college campuses."

http://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-launches-enough-enough-campaign-combat-sexual-assault-college-and-university

"Power corrupts" - Andrew "Corruption" Cuomo

        While looking at the long array of portraits, Cuomo noted that there are no plans for a picture of Eliot Spitzer, who served as governor for 14 months before resigning in a prostitution scandal.

        Cuomo also spoke about the corruption investigations and arrests that are shaking the Capitol, most recently with the arrest of former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

        "You've always had, and you probably always will, have some level of corruption," Cuomo said.

        "Power corrupts, and government is a source of power. You have it in the City Council, you have it in the state legislature, you have it in the Congress in the United States. So that continues. I've passed very strong ethics. I hope to get done this year. Because it really to me, casts a shadow on everything we've done."

http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/inside-city-hall/2015/02/16/ny1-exclusive--governor-gives-ny1-s-errol-louis-a-tour-of-state-capitol-building-s-restored-second-floor.html

If Governors can be denied portraits on the basis of corruption, not only should Cuomo not be given a portrait there's probably more than a few that should be removed! However, that sort of censorship would seem inappropriate.

As long as Cuomo (and many of the members of the Legislature, regardless of party) remain in Albany, we indeed probably "always will have some level of corruption."

SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher, the Pedophile Queen

If you cover for another motherfucker

Who's a kiddie fucker

Fuck you, you're no better

Than the motherfucking rapist

And if you don't like the swearing

That this motherfucker forced from me

And reckon it shows moral

Or intellectual paucity

Then fuck you, motherfucker

This is language one employs

When one is fucking cross

About fuckers fucking boys

        —Tim Minchin

There's a LOT of such motherfuckers working in higher education and government. One would think there should not be any?

Subject: Clery Act Geography with respect to SUNY Albany not being respected?

From: Christopher Philippo [...]

Date: December 3, 2013 at 2:35:33 PM EST

To: "Anderson, Richard" , "Kiang, Gary" , William Howard , Nancy Zimpher , John King , Patricia Fahy , Neil Breslin , "Comments (MAC)" , [SUNY Binghamton President] president@binghamton.edu, [SUNY Buffalo President] president@buffalo.edu, [SUNY Stony Brook President] Samuel.Stanley@stonybrook.edu, [NYS Comptroller Investigations] investigations@osc.state.ny.us

SUNY Albany might not be complying with the Clery Act with respect to “Clery Geography” in its reports. I’ve contacted the Clery Center for Security on Campus separately with substantially the same as much of what follows.

I suspect what Clarence L. McNeill wrote below might be in part technically true if the University at Albany Foundation owns the East Campus property rather than the University at Albany itself owning it. However, when it’s been repeatedly claimed, for example, that SUNY or SUNY campus Foundations aren’t subject to FOIL, they’ve been repeatedly informed by the NYS Department of State Committee on Open Government that they’re wrong about that (see e.g. http://docs.dos.ny.gov/coog/otext/3398.htm http://docs.dos.ny.gov/coog/otext/o4130.htm http://docs.dos.ny.gov/coog/ftext/f17411.html etc.). If the claim that the properties are not owned by the state is being used to justify the lack of a law enforcement agreement or Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) regarding those properties or to justify the lack of SUNY Police presence at those properties, that might be similarly problematic:

"Under the Clery Act campuses are required to report campus crime statistics for certain offenses, hate crimes, arrests and disciplinary referrals to the campus judicial process. In all cases this data must be broken down according to the geographic location of the occurrence of the offense. These locations are defined as the campus 'Clery Geography’ under the Act.

“Clery Geography

“Any building or property owned or controlled by an institution within the same reasonably contiguous geographic area and used by the institution in direct support of, or in a manner related to, the institution’s educational purposes, including residence halls;

“Any building or property that is within or reasonably contiguous to paragraph (1) of this definition, that is owned by the institution but controlled by another person, is frequently used by students, and supports institutional purposes (such as a food or other retail vendor). […]

"Any building or property owned or controlled by a student organization that is officially recognized by the institution; or

“Any building or property owned or controlled by an institution that is used in direct support of, or in relation to, the institution’s educational purposes, is frequently used by students, and is not within the same reasonably contiguous geographic area of the institution” (bold emphasis added).

http://police.albany.edu/ASR.pdf (page 8 of 120)

Page 11 of 120 includes the East Campus as part of the Clery Geography, though it is a campus Clarence L. McNeill claims “State of New York, on behalf of SUNY and the University at Albany, does not own” and is a place where Clarence L. McNeill claims “the University at Albany does not have University Police stationed”. One wonders why it is included in the Clery Act report while several other properties don’t appear to be included.

If the University at Albany Foundation owns the main and downtown campuses in Albany, then by Clarence L. McNeill’s reasoning (if that’s his reasoning) there should not be University Police on the main and downtown campuses either. I don’t know who owns those campuses.

So-called judicial administrators with no degrees in law really shouldn’t be allowed to respond to FOIL requests, particularly when the law does not appear to provide any provision for them to do so. Not that I have such a degree, and I could be mistaken on some of the points herein; I’ve only made an amateur study of some narrow points of law - which appears to be one iota more than Clarence L. McNeill has ever done.

One wonders, regardless, whether any police patrol the East Campus, Smart System Technology & Commercialization Center, Dippikill Wilderness Retreat, etc. and if the local police in those areas realize that UAlbany doesn’t. That’s part of why agreements or Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) would be desirable if not mandatory, I think! If the UAlbany Police can form a MOU with the UAlbany Football team:

"An MOU for a new mentorship program (ATLAS) with UPD and the UA Football team was established."

"Student Success Celebrations." Student Success 2011-2012 Briefing Book. 43. http://www.albany.edu/studentsuccess/assessment/BriefingBook/UAlbany%20Briefing%20Book%2011-12.pdf

… then surely UAlbany can give at least as much attention (ideally: far more) to forming agreements with other law enforcement agencies in places where UAlbany has students, faculty, and or staff:

"the safety of our students and the security of our campuses is our top priority."

"Statement from Governor Andrew M. Cuomo. September 14, 2012. http://www.governor.ny.gov/press/091412stmtsunythreats

The Clery Act report does claim that UAlbany Police may assist with investigations of law enforcement agencies “off-campus” at the East Campus, at Dippikill, etc.:

"Policy on Off-Campus Crimes

"When a University student is involved in an off-campus offense, UPD officers may assist with the investigation in cooperation with local, state or federal law enforcement. The uptown campus sits in part in the Town of Guilderland, but mainly in the City of Albany. The downtown campus is in the City of Albany. The East Campus is in the Town of East Greenbush. The University does not recognize or permit any off-campus student groups, such as fraternal groups or sporting groups, to have official off-campus property with the exception of the Student Association’s Dippikill camp area located in Warrensburg, New York”

http://police.albany.edu/ASR.pdf

Why aren’t the Smart System Technology & Commercialization Center and other properties controlled by UAlbany mentioned? How is the safety of the East Campus and those other properties prioritized - or isn’t it?

"the State is not an insurer or guarantor of the safety of SUNYA students"

McEnaney v. State of New York, 267 AD 2d 748 - NY: Appellate Div., 3rd Dept. 1999. http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=14949034404515783354

"DiNapoli: SUNY Colleges Inconsistently Reporting Crime Statistics" http://www.osc.state.ny.us/press/releases/oct08/102208.htm

"U.S. Department of Education Reaches Agreement with the State University of New York to Address and Prevent Sexual Assault and Harassment of Students” http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-education-reaches-agreement-state-university-new-york-address-and-

If the East Campus and other properties can do without SUNY Police, couldn’t the main campus potentially save a lot of money by making use of City of Albany, Albany County, and State police instead?

"there are police chiefs in SUNY who are not mandating policer [sic] officers, certified, whatever. We have police chiefs that refuse to voluntarily give up their fingerprints"

James Lyman, Executive Director of Council 82 for the New York State Law Enforcement Officers Union. (108). http://www.nysenate.gov/files/SUNY%20testimony%20pt.%202.PDF

"SUNY police chiefs serve at the pleasure of the campus president, thus are motivated to keep crime stats down by any means […] SUNY can no longer afford to staff, or overstaff, a body, or overstaff, a body which is subject to inefficiencies, manipulation, cronyism, ill motivation and mismanagement."

Peter Barry, VP & Legislative Director of NYS University Police Officers Union Local 1792 of the American Federation of State County & Municipal Employees AFSCME, Council 82 & AFL-CIO. (127-128). http://www.nysenate.gov/files/SUNY%20Testimony%20pt.%203.PDF

UAlbany’s Clery Act Compliance Officer is John Murphy. He’d been signing off on the Clery Act reports despite UAlbany’s sexual offender registry having been obviously erroneous and out-of-date for years - so badly mismanaged, in fact, that UAlbany had two separate ones: one dated 2009 and one with no date, but circa 2007-2008. It’s hard to see how UAlbany will ever be compliant with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act as well as the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act as long as the people responsible for such outrageous failures remain employed there.

• Sexual Offender Registry #1 "© 2009 University at Albany"

“There are currently three (4) [sic!] registered sex offenders enrolled or working at the University. The following Information has been released:” was followed by a list of six (6) offenders. Accessed: October 19, 2012 Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6BXAjbUOP Accessed: February 19, 2013 Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6EZ55k2vF (it still read © 2009 at that time)

• Sexual Offender Registry #2 No date (probably circa 2007-2008)

"There are currently two (2) registered sex offenders enrolled at the University. The following Information has been released:” was followed by a list of three (3) offenders. Accessed: October 19, 2012 Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6BXAsiiOT http://police.albany.edu/2ColPage.asp?PageSName=SOR2 now redirects to UPD’s homepage

For anyone who can count to two without making an error, those are some pretty glaringly obvious problems on each individual registry - aside from the glaringly obvious problem that there shouldn’t have been two different ones online at the same time.

There was an audit by the NYS Comptroller’s Office in 2007 with a follow-up in 2009 http://osc.state.ny.us/audits/allaudits/093009/07s121.htm which found a number of problems, but it evidently failed to take note of the mismanagement of the sexual offender registry. The Registry gets referenced in the Clery Act Report https://web.archive.org/web/20130217082407/http://police.albany.edu/ASR.pdf on page 53 of the 2011 report, the claim being there that it was being maintained - when clearly (the above archives) it was not being maintained properly. At least part of page 53 was not written for the report but was instead copied and pasted from the website: "The DCJS Sex Offender Registry site may be found on the web (See the link to the right)" (there's no link to the right in the PDF). The obvious error has been retained in the 2012 report on page 58 https://web.archive.org/web/20130930073317/http://police.albany.edu/ASR.pdf

If any of you believe that SUNY Albany should continue to employ people who submit false information in reports, who send threats to students or their families, etc. I’d be most curious to know your reasoning.

I remain terribly sorry I didn’t finish a degree at some one of the other SUNY campuses where I’d been accepted years ago. In fairness to SUNY Albany: there are many good students, faculty, and staff there. For that matter, many members of my family have had strong ties to SUNY. It is in part due to such facts that I care so much about the horrible problems that are being permitted to persist at SUNY. If you care not about the threats SUNY Albany sent to me and my family and are content to let those stand without retraction or restitution, at least do something for the sake of other victims and witnesses there.

Sincerely,

Christopher K. Philippo

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“Make you the world a bit better or more beautiful because you have lived in it.” - Edward W. Bok

"Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act" 20 U.S.C. § 1092(f) (17)

"Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to permit an institution, or an officer, employee, or agent of an institution, participating in any program under this subchapter and part C of subchapter I of chapter 34 of title 42 to retaliate, intimidate, threaten, coerce, or otherwise discriminate against any individual with respect to the implementation of any provision of this subsection."

From: "McNeill, Clarence L"

Subject: FOIL Request

Date: December 3, 2013 at 11:06:29 AM EST

To: [Christopher K. Philippo]

Cc: "McNeill, Clarence L"

Mr. Philippo,

Your FOIL request of November 27, 2013, a copy of which is below, has been forwarded to me for response. As you may recall, you are to contact me for any issues or requests that you have with the University at Albany.

Regarding your requests for local police agency cooperation agreements between the University at Albany and the Ontario County Sheriff, the Rensselaer County Sheriff, the Rensselaer City Policy, and the Warren County Sheriff, the University has no documents that are responsive to your request.

The State of New York, on behalf of SUNY and the University at Albany, does not own the East Campus property or the property that the Smart System Technology & Commercialization Center is located on or the Dippikill property. As such, In addition, the University at Albany does not have University Police stationed at any of the said properties.

Thank you.

ALL of the people I contacted evidently believe that SUNY Albany should continue to employ people who submit false information in reports, who send threats to students or their families, etc., though NOT ONE cared to supply their reasoning. Presumably it's because they're all motherfuckers?

Being charitably inclined, I gave Nancy "Motherfucker" Zimpher more than one opportunity to prove herself to be something other than what she obviously is, e.g.:

Subject: SUNY correcting handling of sexual harassment/violence complaints w/victims & witnesses?

Date: January 14, 2014 at 4:33:42 PM EST

To: Chancellor Nancy Zimpher [and others]

[...]

Under your leadership, the University at Albany Police weren’t even maintaining their sexual offender registry:

• Sexual Offender Registry #1 "© 2009 University at Albany"

"There are currently three (4) [sic] registered sex offenders enrolled or working at the University. The following Information has been released:" was followed by a list of six (6) offenders. Accessed: October 19, 2012 Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6BXAjbUOP Accessed: February 19, 2013 Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6EZ55k2vF (it still read © 2009 at that time)

• Sexual Offender Registry #2 No date (probably circa 2007-2008)

"There are currently two (2) registered sex offenders enrolled at the University. The following Information has been released:" was followed by a list of three (3) offenders. Accessed: October 19, 2012 Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6BXAsiiOT http://police.albany.edu/2ColPage.asp?PageSName=SOR2 now redirects to UPD's homepage

There was an audit by the NYS Comptroller's Office in 2007 with a follow-up in 2009 http://osc.state.ny.us/audits/allaudits/093009/07s121.htm which found a number of problems, but it evidently failed to take note of the mismanagement of the sexual offender registry. The Registry gets referenced in the Clery Act Report http://police.albany.edu/ASR.pdf on page 53 of the 2011 report, the claim being there that it was being maintained - when clearly (the above archives) it was not being maintained properly. At least part of page 53 was not written for the report but was instead copied and pasted from the website: "The DCJS Sex Offender Registry site may be found on the web (See the link to the right)" (there's no link to the right in the PDF). The obvious error has been retained in the 2012 report on page 58

The inexcusable, obvious problems with the sexual offender registry seem to have been addressed in large part, if not solely, due to my repeatedly reporting them at the local, county, state, and federal level over a course of several months. The salaries of the sixty or so members of the SUNY Albany Police along with the department’s budget evidently don’t cover such basic responsibilities as properly maintaining a sexual offender registry? Wasteful spending seems to abound at SUNY: “Citing a report by the SUNY Police Officers Union, [NYS Senator] Klein’s investigation last year estimated that centralizing the SUNY police force could potentially save New York State at least $3 million in the next year, while also making the SUNY police force more effective.” http://www.nysenate.gov/press-release/government-efficiency-task-force-probes-suny-wasteful-spending-practices

[...]

When will students be given the education they paid for, not an education in how highly-paid administrators have little or no concern for students’ safety and rights?

Christopher K. Philippo

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"Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act" 20 U.S.C. § 1092(f) (17)

"Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to permit an institution, or an officer, employee, or agent of an institution, participating in any program under this subchapter and part C of subchapter I of chapter 34 of title 42 to retaliate, intimidate, threaten, coerce, or otherwise discriminate against any individual with respect to the implementation of any provision of this subsection."

---

“Make you the world a bit better or more beautiful because you have lived in it.” - Edward W. Bok

No reply. Crown her Zimpher, Queen of Pedophiles.

Pedophile Fluffer Joe Paterno honored

Pedophile enabler ("fluffer" seems as good a word for that as any) Joe Paterno "has been restored as the winningest coach in major college football history." http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/12179571/joe-paterno-111-wins-were-vacated-restored

Yay... :-(

Chief Pirate J. "Frank" Wiley X's deranged vision of "unprecedented racial violence throughout this country"

UAlbany Police “Chief” J. “Frank” Wiley in an Oakland Raiders shirt on UPD’s Facebook page, cropped and annotated here:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfa1/t31.0-8/286894_426995154003734_245054570_o.jpg

There’s a tan Raiders item, possibly signed (I can only make out what might be S M on it), on the piece of furniture behind him. Maybe one of these tacky straw cowboy hats: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/817sj1d%2B0cL._UX385_.jpg

He lives and breathes football, and has for decades.

I'm an aging former high level athlete. [...] More recently, arthritis caused by years of high impact sports was winning the battle. My back, knees, shoulders, and achiles tendon limited my motion and were painful.

Wiley, J. Frank. "Testimonials." Berkshire Massage Therapy. http://www.bmt.massagetherapy.com/testimonials

Frank Wiley, a Baltimore policeman who plans to attend as many practices as he can, said, "It is outstanding. Seeing the players close up, talking to them and getting to known them is just great. All the players I talked to thought the fans made them practice with more intensity.”

Snyder, Cameran C. "Open practice scores with Colts and fans." The Sun [Baltimore, MD]. July 21, 1981: C7. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/baltsun/access/1850835422.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jul+21%2C+1981&author=&pub=The+Sun+(1837-1985)

The University at Albany Department of Public Safety was the primary law enforcement agency for the New York Giants' professional football training camp held at Albany in July and August of 1996. […] The hiring of temporary security officers assisted the University in providing 24 hour/day security for the Giants' work and living areas […] University Public Safety Officers staffed all Giants practices and meals. They worked with the Giants Organization in providing reasonable access to fans, while at the same time maintaining the security and safety of the players. The University and the Capital District community have described the Giants training camp as having been a great success.

"New York Giants Football." Dept. of Public Safety. SUNY Albany. Ca. 1996. http://web.archive.org/web/19970802165356/http://www.albany.edu/public_safety/whtsnew.html

In an effort to broaden the scope of the University Police Department’s (UPD) community policing initiatives, the Great Dane Ride Along Program has been created. The concept was put into action by UPD Chief J. Frank Wiley and head football coach Bob Ford. The Program will bring together officers of UPD and members of the University’s football team. The players will ride on regular patrol with the officers in two hour shifts.

“The program will expose the students to some of the problems University Police Officers face every day and at the same time will expose the officers to some of our student-athletes,” Ford said. “This is one of those things that only good can come from.”

According to Wiley, both the players and the officers are excited about this opportunity and so far, approximately 60 players have volunteered to participate in the program. He added that special planning will be used to ensure that the program will not interfere with the players’ academic schedules. University Police officers assigned to Quad Liaison duties will coordinate the department’s efforts. The program took effect after spring break.

"Great Dane Ride Along Program." highLIGHTS. University Update 20(13). April 2, 1997. http://www.albany.edu/updates/1997/4-2/highlights.html

While six sexual assaults have been reported on the UAlbany campus since September, university police contacted Albany County District Attorney David Soares' office for only one - the alleged rape of a freshman woman by the three football players. In the five other cases, the victims declined to press charges. In the case involving the football players, the district attorney's office was called by a television station before receiving a call from the UAlbany police. […] After the forum, Wiley declined interview requests, saying he only conducts interview by e-mail. "I've been misquoted in my time here. I have been the object of irresponsible, gotcha journalism,” he said. Wiley steered questions to his officers.

Crowley, Cathleen F. "Handling of rape case defended; UAlbany police chief says officers followed protocol in dealing with alleged assault." Albany Times Union. October 26, 2006: A1. http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=6365244

"Establish an MOU [Memorandum of Understanding] with the UA Football program to create a leadership development opportunity for football players. MOU was established and signed and pilot program has begun" (38)

"An MOU for a new mentorship program (ATLAS) with UPD and the UA Football team was established."

"Student Success Celebrations." Student Success 2011-2012 Briefing Book. 43. http://www.albany.edu/studentsuccess/assessment/BriefingBook/UAlbany%20Briefing%20Book%2011-12.pdf

"Pay no attention to the media criticism," J. Frank Wiley of Albany, N.Y., wrote.

White, David. "Oakland fans react with shock, anger." San Francisco Chronicle. April 28, 2009. http://www.sfgate.com/raiders/article/Oakland-fans-react-with-shock-anger-3243783.php

On the wall behind Wiley is a framed picture of Malcolm X.

The same picture of Malcolm X:

http://a5.files.biography.com/image/upload/c_fill,dpr_1.0,g_face,h_300,q_80,w_300/MTE5NDg0MDU1MDU1ODYxMjYz.jpg

On Wiley's shelves are some CDs and a bunch of VHS tapes. I can't make out the titles of any but part of one having to do with Malcolm X, looking most like a two-VHS tape collection, but possibly a clamshell collection of audiocassettes, or maybe even a book?

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfa1/t31.0-8/286894_426995154003734_245054570_o.jpg

Malcolm X’s Autobiography as told to Alex Haley (the author of Roots) is fascinating and I think his assassination was particularly unfortunate given that Malcolm X had by then left the racist Nation of Islam (thought by many to be the people who shot him) and was beginning to reach out to people of all races, but even still: a picture of him is a very odd thing to see in a police station! Malcolm X didn’t generally have much good to say about the police.

From an article written about five years before UAlbany foolishly hired Wiley:

LOUDONVILLE — As colleges continue to strive for greater numbers of student and teachers from racial and ethnic minorities, administrators and campus police also must face the unfortunate side effects of that diversity: prejudice, hate and violence.

In many cases, the pressure-filled college atmosphere serves to instigate hostilities that might normally simmer below the surface. More and more, experts say, those hostilities are being directed against students solely because of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or religion.

More than 80 people involved in campus law enforcement or student affairs attended a seminar at Siena College yesterday to hear from two experts on their experiences in dealing with hate crime.

"The prediction is, that within five to seven years, if we don’t do something now, there will be unprecedented racial violence throughout this country," said James F. Wiley, an officer with the University of Maryland Baltimore County Police Department. “It’s time for us to take preventative action.”

Wiley and his department's police chief, Robert C. Nielsen, have travelled throughout the country to share their strategies in dealing with racial violence and other acts of intolerance on college campuses."

Roach, Karen. "Changing campus demographics increase chance of hate crimes." Schenectady Daily Gazette. May 21, 1991: B 5. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=j3QhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5ogFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4814,5370913

Wiley’s prediction of (wish for?) “unprecedented racial violence” was of course happily never to come true. He was talking out of his ass and those foul emanations weren't worth a toot (that's the closest he'll ever come to astuteness). Wiley is contributing to the increase of the problem of intolerance on campus (further enabling Michael W. Barberich to harass minority students to his diseased heart's content by backing threats against those who would report his harassment, for instance). Malcolm X would have despised J. "Frank" Wiley.

SUNY Albany student evidently graduated from steroid trafficking to conspiracy to commit insider trading?

ALBANY — A 20-year-old University at Albany student who police said had devised an elaborate scheme to get steroids shipped to him was arrested Friday.

The Albany County Sheriff’s Department Drug Interdiction unit, which made the arrest with U.S. postal inspectors, said Matthew J. Musante might have been distributing steroids to several area fitness centers.

They said the investigation is continuing and would not say which fitness centers might have been involved. […]

With each search warrant, large quantities of steroids were seized, including 130 bottles of steroids containing 2,684 pills, 53 vials of liquid steroids and two tubes of cream. Authorities did not have an estimated street value for the steroids.

Approximately $2,870 in cash was also seized with the steroids discovered in Musante’s vehicle and several hundred syringes were seized with steroids at his residence. […]

Bryce, Jill. "UAlbany student arrested, charged with steroid possession." Daily Gazette. March 13, 2001: B1, B5. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1957&dat=20010313&id=HHIhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=a4gFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6045,2564262

The TU’s unfortunately put many of its articles behind a paywall and one can only see the first few short paragraphs of them.

ALBANY -- A UAlbany business major who police say made thousands of dollars selling steroids to students and health club users pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance. Matthew Musante of Hamilton Street, Albany, faces six months in jail when sentenced. He was arrested at the Fort Orange post office in March when he went to pick up two packages of steroids, according to the county Sheriff's Department. Musante, a junior [...]

"UAlbany student pleads guilty to selling steroids." Albany Times Union. May 10, 2001: B9.

Authorities say a 20-year-old business major at the University at Albany made thousands of dollars selling steroids to fellow students and health club users.

Matthew J. Musante of Hamilton Street in Albany was arrested by the Albany County Sheriff's Department Drug Interdiction Unit and members of the U.S. Postal Inspectors when he allegedly went to pick up two packages of steroids at the Fort Orange post office Friday, the sheriff's department said.

Musante, a junior at [...]

Fricano, Mike. “UAlbany junior charged with steroid sales.” Albany Times Union. March 13, 2001: B1.

It actually gets worse from there (as spoiled in my subject line).

Matthew Musante […]

Previous [employment] Kaufman, Rossin & Co., V12 Group - Direct Marketing Associates, United State of Fitness […]

Stony Brook University [i.e. SUNY Stony Brook]

Bachelor’s degree, Business Management

2002-2003

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/matthew-musante/8/ba1/b9a

Since a BA can’t be obtained in two years generally, I’d bet he was a transfer from SUNY Albany after being busted for drug trafficking. SUNY Stony Brook must be so glad they overlooked his criminal history at SUNY Albany and let him finish his Business Management degree...

In December 2012, a separate criminal indictment charged John W. Femenia, Sawn C. Hegedus, Danielle C. Laurenti, Matthew J. Musante, Aaron W. Wens, Roger A. Williams, Kenneth M. Raby, Frank M. Burgess, Jr., and James A. Hayes for their involvement in the insider trading conspiracy. Femenia, Hegedus, Laurenti, and Musante have pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing.

“Maryland Man Charged in Insider Trading Conspiracy; Defendant Netted More Than $650,000 in Illegal Profits from College Friend’s Insider Tips.” April 3, 2014. http://www.fbi.gov/charlotte/press-releases/2014/maryland-man-charged-in-insider-trading-conspiracy

http://www.justice.gov/usao/ncw/pressreleases/2014/Charlotte-2014-04-03-wagner.html

In breach of his duty of confidentiality to Wells Fargo Securities, LLC (“WellsFargo Securities”) and its clients, Femenia misappropriated “inside" information about the Business Combinations and supplied or "tipped" it to three personal friends who traded on the inside information themselves: (a) Defendant Shawn C. Hegedus (“Hegedus"), who traded on the information with his girlfriend Defendant Danielle C. Laurenti (“Laurenti") through two entities they own and control, Defendant Coram Real Estate Holdings, Inc. ("Coram RealEstate") and Defendant GoldStar P.S. Inc. (“GoldStar P.S."); (b) Defendant Matthew J. Musante ("Matthew Musante"); and (c) Defendant Aaron M. Wens (“Wens”) […] Shortly after receiving the inside information, Matthew Musante also tipped the information further to his father, Defendant Anthony C. Musante (“Anthony Musante”) who himself also traded on the inside information in a TD Ameritrade brokerage account jointly held with his wife, Relief Defendant Christine E. Musante ("Christine Musante") (the"Femenia!Hegedus-Musante Chain”).

[etc. - there’s more references to the Musantes in the linked PDF]

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION,Plaintiff, V. JOHN W. FEMENIA, SHAWN C. HEGEDUS, DANIELLE C. LAURENTI, CORAM REAL ESTATE HOLDING, INC., GOLDSTAR P.S. INC.,ROGER A. WILLIAMS, KENNETH M. RABY, FRANK M. BURGESS, JAMES A. HAYES, MAITHEW [sic] J. MUSANTE, ANTHONY C. MUSANTE and AARON M. WENS, Defendants, and KRISTINE LACK and CHRISTINE E. MUSANTE, Relief Defendants

http://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2012/comp-pr2012-255.pdf