1. In August in Atlanta, televangelist Thomas Weeks was arrested for allegedly beating up and threatening to kill his estranged wife, televangelist Juanita Bynum, in a hotel parking lot before a bellman rescued her. (Weeks blamed Satan for the incident.) [Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 8-27-07]
2. Pastor Walter Steen pleaded guilty in Detroit in August to tax fraud and was sentenced to 15 months in prison. He had started the God Will Provide Tax Service in 2005, but prosecutors said 1,573 out of the 1,578 returns he prepared for clients claimed tax refunds. [Detroit News, 8-2-07]
3. Led by California, more than one dozen states are preparing to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for its dismal record on regulating greenhouse gas emissions. N.Y. Governor Eliot Spitzer has called for states to “step into a void created by a failure of federal action” and denial of the “scientific evidence” about global warming. States are hoping to remove EPA obstacles that limit the states’ ability to regulate emissions standards. (NY Times)
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What in the world?
1. Man Acquitted of Feeding Homeless People
Orlando: 22-year-old Eric Montanez was acquitted of charges brought against him for feeding the homeless through the volunteer organization Food Not Bombs (FNB). The city said he violated a city ordinance that bans feeding a large group of people.
The law, passed in 2006, requires a permit for feeding 25 or more people in downtown parks. Police sent in undercover officers to count the number of times he gave someone stew, and even took some of it in a vial as evidence after moving in on him.
Other cities have or are trying to pass similar laws as a way to drive out the homeless, but many are blasting the move, calling it inhumane. Taking soup lines to parks gives it more exposure to a thoughtless city, said FNB co-founder Keith McHenry.
2. The Tata Group, a Mumbai, India, company that handles customer-service calls for several U.S. firms, has outsourced some of its work to a firm in Ohio (according to an August Fortune magazine report), on behalf of a client that insists on operators knowledgeable about American geography. [CNN, 8-3-07]
3. A charity foundation's former accountant accused of embezzling heart disease research funds to pay a dominatrix to beat him pleaded guilty Tuesday to grand larceny and admitted he stole more than $US237,000 ($A336,576).
Abraham Alexander, 45, a native of India, admitted taking the money from the Cardiovascular Research Foundation by using company credit cards and writing cheques to himself.
At least $US11,000 went to pay Through the Looking Glass, an online company run by a Columbus, Ohio-based dominatrix, and other charges included flights between New York and Ohio and car rentals, according to District Attorney Robert Morgenthau's office.
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Orlando: 22-year-old Eric Montanez was acquitted of charges brought against him for feeding the homeless through the volunteer organization Food Not Bombs (FNB). The city said he violated a city ordinance that bans feeding a large group of people.
The law, passed in 2006, requires a permit for feeding 25 or more people in downtown parks. Police sent in undercover officers to count the number of times he gave someone stew, and even took some of it in a vial as evidence after moving in on him.
Other cities have or are trying to pass similar laws as a way to drive out the homeless, but many are blasting the move, calling it inhumane. Taking soup lines to parks gives it more exposure to a thoughtless city, said FNB co-founder Keith McHenry.
2. The Tata Group, a Mumbai, India, company that handles customer-service calls for several U.S. firms, has outsourced some of its work to a firm in Ohio (according to an August Fortune magazine report), on behalf of a client that insists on operators knowledgeable about American geography. [CNN, 8-3-07]
3. A charity foundation's former accountant accused of embezzling heart disease research funds to pay a dominatrix to beat him pleaded guilty Tuesday to grand larceny and admitted he stole more than $US237,000 ($A336,576).
Abraham Alexander, 45, a native of India, admitted taking the money from the Cardiovascular Research Foundation by using company credit cards and writing cheques to himself.
At least $US11,000 went to pay Through the Looking Glass, an online company run by a Columbus, Ohio-based dominatrix, and other charges included flights between New York and Ohio and car rentals, according to District Attorney Robert Morgenthau's office.
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