Subject: Digest for the period 5/28/2007 - 5/29/2007
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 01:01:05 -0400

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  1. Re: background checks 


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From: MeadGuild`at`aol.com  Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 10:10:27 EDT
Subject: Re: background checks 


Spencer W. Thomas  asked:
 
> If you don't want to be checked, what are you hiding?
 
I have declined running for public office and accepting 
appointments to local government positions because I  will
not have my tax returns subject to public knowledge.  It's
not that I have anything to hide.  It's just a matter of my 
concern for my right to privacy - an attitude I share  with
many people.
 
> Your drug arrest in 1975 isn't going to prevent you holding  office 
> in the BJCP. :-)

Twice  I sat on a National Nominating Committee of a large
social organization.  Both times issues such as he is a  nudist,
she's shacked up with some guy, he was convicted on a  DWI,
and his business filed for bankruptcy 10+ years ago came  up.
It was rare to hear important issues such as this person is  a
micro-manager or this person is difficult to work with.  It  was
generally personal attacks by someone favoring their  opponent.
Make that person's 1975 drug bust public fodder and it will  be
brought up.
 
Now Treasurer is a different issue.  I vehemently agree  with 
our colleague who wrote "Trust, but  verify."  Mr. Slack was 
able abscond with $65,000 because of  a 'slack' system of
internal controls - he wrote the checks, kept the records,  and
prepared the financial reports.  There was no verification  until
he was asked for the funds.  Bonding would have  reimbursed
the BJCP for his defalcation, but a sound system of  internal
controls would have caught him in the early stages of the  fraud.
I would hope a sound system is in place today.
 
Dick
--
Richard D. Adams, CPA  (retired)
Moderator:  misc.taxes.moderated



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