Keith Fogg, The Room of Lies (Procedurally Taxing). No, it’s not about debate settings, Congress or the White House Press Briefing Room. It’s about the process the government uses in deciding whether to appeal tax cases.
Robert Wood, Charging $476K For Strippers On Company Card? No Tax Deduction, Jail Instead. That’s a lot of $1 bills.
Someone Must Be Lying Saltzburg, Stephen A., Someone Must Be Lying (2015).
28 Criminal Justice (2015); GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No.
2015-30; GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2015-30. Available for download
at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2641149
“There is no rule that governs all cases when determining
whether it’s permissible for prosecutors to argue in closing that the jury
would have to find that police officers lied in order to find a defendant not
guilty. This article examines the issue of the credibility of law enforcement
officers in United States v. Ruiz, 710 F.3d 1077 (9th Cir. 2013), United States
v. Wilkes, 662 F.3d 524 (9th Cir. 2011), and United States v. Tucker, 641 F.3d
1110 (9th Cir. 2011).”
Via Atlantic Council – New Twists in Russia’s Cyber Campaign Against NATO
and Its Members By Sam Jones, Financial Times: “Russia’s aggressive
actions in cyber space are all carefully designed to fall short of
warranting any kind of serious military or aggressive response. One of Moscow’s
new favoured tactics is to arm crime syndicates with
sophisticated hacking tools and malware and subcontract them to undertake
operations against adversaries or to mount so-called “false flag” attacks to
muddy the water around attribution, says a senior US military cyber command
officer.”
I have a confession to make: I died two years ago. Certainties in life
Sydney 75 years ago ...
“In
this bleak, relentlessly morbid talk, James Mickens will describe why making
computers secure is an intrinsically impossible task. He will explain why no
programming language makes it easy to write secure code. He
will then discuss why cloud computing is a black hole for privacy, and only
useful for people who want to fill your machine with ads, viruses, or viruses
that masquerade as ads. At this point in the talk, an audience member may
suggest that Bitcoins can make things better. Mickens will laugh at this
audience member and then explain why trusting the Bitcoin infrastructure is
like asking Dracula to become a vegan. Mickens will conclude by describing why
true love is a joke and why we are all destined to die alone and tormented. The
first ten attendees will get balloon animals, and/or an unconvincing
explanation about why Mickens intended to (but did not) bring balloon animals.
Mickens will then flee on horseback while shouting “The Prince of Lies escapes
again!”
The NSW Liberal Party is refusing to reveal when royal commissioner Dyson Heydon was invited to speak at a Liberal Party fundraiser that has been promoted as a party event and addressed by prominent LIberals since its inception in 2010. Dyson Heydon and the long liberal party history of the garfield barwick address ; Story about Panel members that awarded Tony Abbott his prized rhodes scholarship
Prior to World War II, the first defendant’s parents owned five substantial
properties in the centre of Prague: land in Kbely (a suburb of Prague);
horticultural land in Repy (on the outskirts of Prague); a forest in the North
East of what is now the Slovak Republic; and an apartment building and adjacent
land in Dresden, Germany.
In the aftermath of World War II these properties were seized by communist
regimes in Czechoslovakia and East Germany. About this time, the first
defendant’s parents, Alois and Anna Talacko, left Europe and settled in
Australia.
Herald Sun Story relating to Dreyfus award presentation
Robert Wood, Mo’
Indictments For Mo’ Money Taxes, 20 Years Prison Possible. “Indeed, the
fallout for innocent taxpayers patronizing a tax preparation shop that is in
trouble can be far-reaching.” Yes, that’s why taxpayers should be wary of a
shop that seems to always get bigger refunds than anyone else.
Tony Nitti, If
You Hired Mo’ Money Taxes To Prepare Your Return, You Continue To Have Mo’
Problems. “The most institutionally corrupt organization south of the New
England Patriots…”
News from the Profession. In the Future, Accountants Count Everything (Chris
Hooper, Going Concern).