#Trustees

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[Call it anything you want, just don't call me late for it. We are only the trustees for those who come after us. That is just fine just by itself.]

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The Vendors and Purchasers Act (1888) Basic Guide

The Vendors and Purchasers Act (1888) This law is about buying and selling land, making the process simpler and fairer for everyone involved. Shorter History Needed: When someone buys land, they don’t need to check as far back as 60 years to see who owned it. Now, they only need to look back 40 years to prove ownership. Rules for Selling and Buying Land: No Freehold Demand: If someone is…

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Trustees System Service Building - Part 1

201 North Wells Street, Chicago

Built 1929-1930

Thielbard & Fugard, Edgar Miller, Eugene & Gwen Lux

by Roger Jones

These are my photos of the Trustees System Service Building on 7-16-2024:

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Discretionary Trusts: Between Flexibility and Beneficiary Entitlements

A discretionary trust, in the law of trust law of England, Australia, Canada and other common law jurisdictions, is a trust where the beneficiaries and their entitlements to the trust fund are not fixed but rather are determined by certain criteria set out in the trust instrument by the settlor. Discretionary trusts can be discretionary in two respects: 1. The trustees usually have the power to…

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Shakti Krupa Trust | Trustees Guiding Compassion & Vision

Shakti Krupa Trust's Trustees comprised of experienced individuals with core values of compassion, integrity, empowering communities and positive change

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"BURWASH ESCAPEES BOTH RECAPTURED," North Bay Nugget. October 14, 1943. Page 17. --- Sudbury, Oct. 14 - Discovered by Burwash Industrial Farm guards walking along the C.N.R. right-of-way near McVittie last night two inmates of the farm who had escaped yesterday morning were recaptured at 9.30 o'clock last night. The two men, Vernon Dumphy, age 27, of Toronto, and Thomas Middleton, age 36, of Ottawa, gave up without a struggle.

The pair were working in the laundry when they made their escape at 10.20 a.m. yesterday. They hid in the surrounding bush during the afternoon and early evening and then made for the C.N.R. tracks hoping to "hop a freight."

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Term limits for elected officials have been a hot topic lately and the Santa Clara Unified School District Board of Trustees debated it at their Thursday, Oct. 12 meeting. Board Member Dr. Michele Ryan asked for term limits to be added to the agenda so the Board could explore the topic. The Board of Trustees doesn’t currently have term limits but the seven members can serve unlimited four-year terms. Read more at svvoice.com

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Bathukamma and Dussehra festival celebrations under the patronage of KCTCA

17th Anniversary Bathukamma and Dussehra Festival under the auspices of KCTCA on 14th October (Bathukamma festival is unique in that it is held beside six outdoor pools in nature) KCTCA Executive and Trustees decided. So pray you can save your calendar for this date. We wish you a successful Bathukamma and Dussehra festival this year like every year.

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Carolyn’s Nonprofit Blog and a Top Read

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Industrial scale abuse

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Mr WILLIAM GOODWIN In the year 1828 bequeathed by Will to the Trustees of Mr RALPH FINCH’s Almshouses £262.10.1 newfour Pr.Cent. also £1000.3 Pr.Cent Consols, for making additional room on the same premises for four other female Inhabitants and towards their support. Mr.L WILBEE bequeathed by Will £18.19.2 in the year 1835.

These Four Houses were built & Endow’d by Mr RALPH FINCH in the year 1552. Mr. DOBBY, bequeath’d by Will £100 in the Year 1786. Mr.Charles Great bequeathed by Will £200 in the Year 1798. Mr. John Lyon bequeathed by Will £5 for ever in the year 1803. Mr.Moor bequeathed by Will £36 in the Year 1810.

THESE FOVR HOVSES WERE BVILT & ENDOWED BY Mr RALPH FINCH IN THE YEAR 1552

REBUILT BY THE TRUSTEES IN 1970

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One of America’s most corporate-crime-friendly bankruptcy judges forced to recuse himself

Today (Oct 16) I'm in Minneapolis, keynoting the 26th ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Thursday (Oct 19), I'm in Charleston, WV to give the 41st annual McCreight Lecture in the Humanities. Friday (Oct 20), I'm at Charleston's Taylor Books from 12h-14h.

"I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one." The now-famous quip from Robert Reich cuts to the bone of corporate personhood. Corporations are people with speech rights. They are heat-shields that absorb liability on behalf of their owners and managers.

But the membrane separating corporations from people is selectively permeable. A corporation is separate from its owners, who are not liable for its deeds – but it can also be "closely held," and so inseparable from those owners that their religious beliefs can excuse their companies from obeying laws they don't like:

https://clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/2014/10/13/hobby-lobby-and-closely-held-corporations/

Corporations – not their owners – are liable for their misdeeds (that's the "limited liability" in "limited liablity corporation"). But owners of a murderous company can hold their victims' families hostage and secure bankruptcies for their companies that wipe out their owners' culpability – without any requirement for the owners to surrender their billions to the people they killed and maimed:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/11/justice-delayed/#justice-redeemed

Corporations are, in other words, a kind of Schroedinger's Cat for impunity: when it helps the ruling class, corporations are inseparable from their owners; when that would hinder the rich and powerful, corporations are wholly distinct entities. They exist in a state of convenient superposition that collapses only when a plutocrat opens the box and decides what is inside it. Heads they win, tails we lose.

Key to corporate impunity is the rigged bankruptcy system. "Debts that can't be paid, won't be paid," so every successful civilization has some system for discharging debt, or it risks collapse:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/09/bankruptcy-protects-fake-people-brutalizes-real-ones/

When you or I declare bankruptcy, we have to give up virtually everything and endure years (or a lifetime) of punitive retaliation based on our stained credit records, and even then, our student debts continue to haunt us, as do lawless scumbag debt-collectors:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/12/do-not-pay/#fair-debt-collection-practices-act

When a giant corporation declares bankruptcy, by contrast, it emerges shorn of its union pension obligations and liabilities owed to workers and customers it abused or killed, and continues merrily on its way, re-offending at will. Big companies have mastered the Texas Two-Step, whereby a company creates a subsidiary that inherits all its liabilities, but not its assets. The liability-burdened company is declared bankrupt, and the company's sins are shriven at the bang of a judge's gavel:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/01/j-and-j-jk/#risible-gambit

Three US judges oversee the majority of large corporate bankruptcies, and they are so reliable in their deference to this scheme that an entire industry of high-priced lawyers exists solely to game the system to ensure that their clients end up before one of these judges. When the Sacklers were seeking to abscond with their billions in opioid blood-money and stiff their victims' families, they set their sights on Judge Robert Drain in the Southern District of New York:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/23/a-bankrupt-process/#sacklers

To get in front of Drain, the Sacklers opened an office in White Plains, NY, then waited 192 days to file bankruptcy papers there (it takes six months to establish jurisdiction). Their papers including invisible metadata that identified the case as destined for Judge Drain's court, in a bid to trick the court's Case Management/Electronic Case Files system to assign the case to him.

The case was even pre-captioned "RDD" ("Robert D Drain"), to nudge clerks into getting their case into a friendly forum.

If the Sacklers hadn't opted for Judge Drain, they might have set their sights on the Houston courthouse presided over by Judge David Jones, the second of of the three most corporate-friendly large bankruptcy judges. Judge Jones is a Texas judge – as in "Texas Two-Step" – and he has a long history of allowing corporate murderers and thieves to escape with their fortunes intact and their victims penniless:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/07/hr-4193/#shoppers-choice

But David Jones's reign of error is now in limbo. It turns out that he was secretly romantically involved with Elizabeth Freeman, a leading Texas corporate bankruptcy lawyer who argues Texas Two-Step cases in front of her boyfriend, Judge David Jones.

Judge Jones doesn't deny that he and Freeman are romantically involved, but said that he didn't think this fact warranted disclosure – let alone recusal – because they aren't married and "he didn't benefit economically from her legal work." He said that he'd only have to disclose if the two owned communal property, but the deed for their house lists them as co-owners:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24032507-general-warranty-deed

(Jones claims they don't live together – rather, he owns the house and pays the utility bills but lets Freeman live there.)

Even if they didn't own communal property, judges should not hear cases where one of the parties is represented by their long term romantic partner. I mean, that is a weird sentence to have to type, but I stand by it.

The case that led to the revelation and Jones's stepping away from his cases while the Fifth Circuit investigates is a ghastly – but typical – corporate murder trial. Corizon is a prison healthcare provider that killed prisoners with neglect, in the most cruel and awful ways imaginable. Their families sued, so Corizon budded off two new companies: YesCare got all the contracts and other assets, while Tehum Care Services got all the liabilities:

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/prominent-bankruptcy-judge-david-jones-033801325.html

Then, Tehum paid Freeman to tell her boyfriend, Judge Jones, to let it declare bankruptcy, leaving $173m for YesCare and allocating $37m for the victims suing Tehum. Corizon owes more than $1.2b, "including tens of millions of dollars in unpaid invoices and hundreds of malpractice suits filed by prisoners and their families who have alleged negligent care":

https://www.kccllc.net/tehum/document/2390086230522000000000041

Under the deal, if Corizon murdered your family member, you would get $5,000 in compensation. Corizon gets to continue operating, using that $173m to prolong its yearslong murder spree.

The revelation that Jones and Freeman are lovers has derailed this deal. Jones is under investigation and has recused himself from his cases. The US Trustee – who represents creditors in bankruptcy cases – has intervened to block the deal, calling Tehum "a barren estate, one that was stripped of all of its valuable assets as a result of the combination and divisional mergers that occurred prior to the bankruptcy filing."

This is the third high-profile sleazy corporate bankruptcy that had victory snatched from the jaws of defeat this year: there was Johnson and Johnson's attempt to escape from liability from tricking women into powder their vulvas with asbestos (no, really), the Sacklers' attempt to abscond with billions after kicking off the opioid epidemic that's killed 800,000+ Americans and counting, and now this one.

This one might be the most consequential, though – it has the potential to eliminate one third of the major crime-enabling bankruptcy judges serving today.

One down.

Two to go.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/16/texas-two-step/#david-jones

My next novel is The Lost Cause, a hopeful novel of the climate emergency. Amazon won't sell the audiobook, so I made my own and I'm pre-selling it on Kickstarter!

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BREAKING: Ruth Gottesman, the chairwoman of Einstein’s Board of Trustees, has donated $1 billion to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. 

The Albert Einstein College of Medicine was formerly owned by Yeshiva University (YU) and trained thousands of Jewish doctors. 

The gift is considered the largest in history made to a medical school in the United States. 

Students will no longer have to pay tuition following the donation from the longtime professor.

The school will become permanently tuition free starting next year. Any students in their final year of medical school who already paid for the current semester will be fully reimbursed. 

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the latest issue of my university's conservative alumni newsletter linked to a real doozy of an article. the degree of cancel culture this guy is describing only makes sense if the idea he wants to debate is 'was jim crow Good Actually,' and knowing these guys, that's a possibility

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Term limits for elected officials have been a hot topic lately and the Santa Clara Unified School District Board of Trustees debated it at their Thursday, Oct. 12 meeting. Board Member Dr. Michele Ryan asked for term limits to be added to the agenda so the Board could explore the topic. The Board of Trustees doesn’t currently have term limits but the seven members can serve unlimited four-year terms. Read more at svvoice.com