Newly released audio from early 2013, part of a Feb 2026 release, features Epstein and former Israeli PM Ehud Barak discussing “gigantic” sums of money allegedly paid to [Tony] Blair for consultancy work, including a reported $11m/year from Kazakhstan.

… who stole it?

… but there’s nothing all that funny about a system that nurtures and protects high-born degenerates. Something to think about as we enjoy the cheap thrill of the queen of England’s son in handcuffs.

She hasn’t written about it because she hasn’t been able to control her emotions.

It is now coming to an end.

How did it ever start?

… I am totally shocked by my decade of theft of your dues … I am at a loss for words…. But the important thing is I’m an old lady now and you wouldn’t send an old lady to jail, would you?

You take your eye off of it for awhile and think Hm maybe all the prison and lawsuits and bad publicity shamed it into better behavior…

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But nah.

[Save Our States] accuses the health system of prioritizing luxury spending and executive compensation while patient safety problems persist…. [T]he health system paid its CEO and a department chair over $4 million each in annual compensation.

… but Lori Zeno stole most of its city, state, and federal money so she could rent a penthouse, tool around in a Mercedes, and take luxury trips to Bali.

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You MUST know, after reading this blog for awhile, that this sort of behavior is absolutely standard.

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The only question UD keeps having in such cases is about discovery. Clearly people around her must have known for some time (she led the outfit for years) that she was dirty. Zeno herself explained to the court that she should be handled very gently by them because she’s been way off her rocker for years. Did anyone notice that?

Or is the real problem the very banality of stealing everything? Like, what’s the big deal. Everyone does it.

How can YOU hire the sort of university president who can make this happen for YOU? That is the question American universities want answered.

Track down Betsy Cantwell, whose last name is an ironic reversal on her can-do approach to public service. This is a woman who, when president of Utah State University, bought herself a circa $20,000 “climate-controlled golf cart.” It CAN be done!

Betsy might go to jail because she broke a bunch of state laws, but meanwhile she got out of USU PRONTO when things started getting hot for her (her term there lasted one year) and can now be found hiding in plain sight at notorious Washington State University, whose somewhat malsain operations this blog has followed for years. WSU clearly felt an immediate affinity with ol’ Bets and wrote up this uh selective account of her uh operations at USU.

They forgot to mention not only the golf cart (and the bidet for her office) but the possibly criminal malfeasance.

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Now you’d think WSU would be all in a tizzy – their shiny new prez might soon be hauled in front of a congressional panel and then maybe a judge – but take a look at this and ask yourself: Would Mike Leach find uncomfortable questions from government representatives embarrassing? UD knows WSU and Betsy Cantwell will brazen this out beautifully.

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Crap schools are crappy for a reason. You need to start with trustees that are corrupt and absolutely bewilderingly stupid. And way into football. Current WSU athletics debt is around a quarter billion dollars. Betsy’s the frugal money manager.

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’Items Cantwell purchased have been inventoried, [and one person handling the scandal notes that] the school could consider selling them off to make up the funds.

But “Removing a bidet will cost money.”’

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ONE USED BIDET LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WHO WISHES TO START THE BIDDING

The only sensible way to look at this is if these guys weren’t helping international criminals steal money they’d be senior officers in the German High Command. Let them have their fun.

… a creation of satirist Daniel Greenberg in his novel Tech Transfer, lives again as story after story lately features massive theft of federal/state tax dollars.

The Louvre, the Prado, and (I can attest) the Uffizi are all an ordeal, “like the Metro at rush hour,” and everyone’s too greedy to do anything about it.

Prosecutors said he included a fraudulent invoice in his [loan] application, which said he had been paid more than $800 for a “Three layer cake — 80’s Themed – Orange, Blue, Black and White — Tie dye color.” 

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Guy was soft on crime too. His bribery deal with funeral home directors was totally dependent on dead victims.

… AND it’s Texas A&M!

Anyone paying attention to that intellectual έρημος CANNOT be surprised that their BOT has now begun banning long stretches of Plato from classrooms because … uh… gender?

”What kind of university” does this, asks the miscreant who tried to teach a Dialogue or two.

The kind of university that tells the miscreant he either dumps transy P. pronto or he can teach Ethics and Engineering instead! UD is not making this up.

The local AAUP says

“A research university that censors Plato abandons its obligation to truth, inquiry, and the public trust — and should not be regarded as a serious institution of higher learning.”

Who da fuck ever regarded A&M as a serious anything? Have you read UD’s years of posts about that football-addled joke?

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Reminds UD of Benedictine College in Kansas, where

Sometimes, people here quietly admit, it goes too far. Like the students who loudly proclaim how often they go to Mass, or the young man who quit his classics course because he refused to read the works of ancient Greek pagans.

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UPDATE: Great title! Texas Plato Massacre

Bad boy Lawrence Krauss was forced, back in 2018, to retire from Arizona State; you’d think ASU would know by now that you take down bad girl Elisa New’s university page before announcing she’s been dumped too. But there she is, bright and shiny, eager to gentle you with poetry…

A relentless scammer, he abused expense accounts, engineered inside deals and demonstrated a remarkable knack for separating seemingly sophisticated investors and businessmen from their money. He started small, testing his tactics and seeing what he could get away with. His early successes laid the foundation for more ambitious ploys down the road… He had already shown himself capable of betraying friends and patrons who trusted him, but now he had advanced from the flagrant abuse of expense accounts to apparently absconding with hundreds of thousands of dollars… Epstein had lured investors in, used their money to book big profits and then refused to return their funds…

And there’s his BFF:

The year after meeting Epstein, [Alan] Dershowitz wrote an opinion piece for The Los Angeles Times arguing that the age of sexual consent should be lowered to 15. Epstein seemed to see the potential of nurturing a relationship with the prominent lawyer. [LOL]… Keeping Dershowitz happy proved prescient. He would become one of Epstein’s highest-profile and longest-serving defenders.