[Fish in a barrel] Or snakes on a plane?
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Eubulides <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Charles Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Brat is also the director of the school's BB&T Moral Foundations of > > Capitalism Program, a bank-branded program intended to give > > "free-market principles" -- and Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism > > in particular -- a leg up in the classroom. > > > > > > The program was started by the Branch Banking and Trust Company > > (BB&T), a North Carolina-based financial services company which > > currently boasts $184.7 billion in assets. The ideas behind the > > program were laid out in 2012 in an essay written by former BB&T CEO > > John Allison. > > ================= > > [Fish in a barrel] > > > > http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/bbt-whistle-blower-ordered-rehired-in-ponzi-case/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 > > > BB&T Whistle-Blower Ordered Rehired > > By DEALBOOK APRIL 4, 2010 2:35 PM 1 Comments > > The BB&T Corporation must rehire a former company investigator who > said she was fired after exposing a $100 million North Carolina > development scam, a federal administrative law judge said in a ruling > released Friday, according to The Associated Press. > > The decision, made by Judge Jeffrey Tureck, said the investigator, Amy > Stroupe, should be reinstated to her position with back pay because of > protection afforded by whistle-blower laws. > > Cynthia Williams, a BB&T spokeswoman, said the company, a provider of > financial services operating primarily in the Southeast, believed the > ruling was erroneous and planned to appeal. > > Investigators say the development, known as the Village of Penland, > was a Ponzi scheme, and Judge Tureck said in his ruling that the bank > was assisting the fraud by making loans to investors in the community. > > Five people have pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges in > connection with the case. > > Ms. Stroupe claimed that the company ignored her warnings that the > development was fraudulent and that she was subsequently fired. > > > [The new old GOP; libertarian on the outside; public choice > rent-seekers on the inside. "Not even five terms in in the Illinois > State Legislature - the last vestige of democracy in the 'raw' - nor > my terms in the US Congress, prepared me for the villainy of the > public choice literature." Judge Abner Mikva. Quoted in "Economics and > the Law, Second Edition, by Nicholas Mercuro & Steven Medema, page > 182] > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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