Like others in the European parliament, France’s most popular politician embezzled from it. Transferred money meant for administrative staff to her party. Just got four pretend years in prison (two suspended, and for the rest she has to don some hardware), AND can’t run for office for five years, so that means she can’t be in the next presidential election.

With wonderful French hauteur, she left the courtroom before the judge finished announcing the sentence. I burst my pimples at you and call your be punished for breaking the law request a silly thing.

Greedy Nicholas Sarkozy, another bigtime French politician, is as we speak trying to avoid his own jail sentences for multiple financial crimes. It’s un petit peu grody over there à ce moment-là.

Corporate larcenist Ira Rennert, this blog’s favorite vile billionaire, found himself in court one day (he often finds himself there), and his lawyer demanded (begged the judge) that jurors be kept from viewing his massively obscene Long Island spread. One look and they’d hand him the death sentence.

UD gets rage at the trashy super rich. Especially now, with so many of them acting out, rage is fine, perfectly fine. Boycott whatever they sell. Rage against them in print. Organize groups to shout and hold signs in front of their headquarters. But retail theft? Really? Talk about trashy. What a disgusting thing to do.

Business Insider chats with the well-heeled Whole Foods thieves and duly collects all the bullshit they say by way of justification, and it’s the same bullshit the ill-heeled thieves who show up on Facebook reels getting arrested in front of Target say. The world is full of asshole police and billionaires and traffic cops and tax collectors and meth dealers all of them cheats out to get me so fuck em the least I can do is steal their goods if they’re in business or spit in their face if they’re cops. I’m a sovereign citizen no laws exist no laws apply to me the world’s rigged against me fuck you all.

Well, this is the way you get San Francisco, if that’s what you want.

‘While over 800 IDF soldiers have fallen in battle, a minister in the Israeli government is dancing to the tunes of ‘We Will Die and Not Enlist’ and ‘We Do Not Believe in the Rule of the Heretics.’ This is not a mistake – it is policy. Goldknopf and Netanyahu’s government openly promote the draft-dodging scheme while reservists collapse under their fifth and sixth rounds of deployment.”‘

Sickening but not surprising. Israel has allowed – subsidized! – vile fanatics in its midst, and for the life of me I don’t know how they can possibly overcome them.

Like the therapist/rapist, this one involves sexual crimes; but here there seems to have been a concerted effort to hide the fact that a principal stands charged with multiple rapes of a minor — one of the students in her school!

Not a peep out of anyone in the system for years; but then a reporter found

… a thin manila folder in the basement of the New Castle County Courthouse.

[Inside was] a 19-count felony indictment that charges Tasha Purnell — OIiver’s former name — with multiple rape and other sex crimes from 2010 through 2014 against a girl who was a minor.

Like pick up the phone and call the school?

But if you’d done that, you’d have missed your chance to hire a rapist of children as a School District therapist for K-5 students.

It’s remarkable how stupid Americans are. “Before we tackle any of our daunting specific problems here in America, we have to figure out how a country can solve any problem if so many of its people are so intractably, astoundingly, mind-numbingly stupid,” says Bill Maher. “And I’m not saying that as hyperbole or just out of frustration. I mean this country just might be empirically, verifiably too fucking dumb to continue as an ongoing enterprise.”

With our new health czar, we’re indeed well on our lethal way, killing our kids because we’re too fucking dumb to understand how vaccination works. This blog will follow the approaching horrible deaths of American children at the hands of their parents.

Yes look out one of this country’s midget Madoffs is about to get sprung! See my 2009 post about psychogreedbeast (go to ‘Assets’) Marc Dreier, who served sixteen of the twenty years he got for stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from I guess the same cohort that thought investing in Bernie M. would be a good idea. He’s featured prominently among the clemencied in this roundup:

Several white collar offenders are among those receiving clemency, including notorious BigLaw Ponzi schemer Marc Dreier, formerly of Dreier LLP, who in 2009 was sentenced to 20 years in prison for selling forged promissory notes and stealing from clients, in a scheme that cost investors and clients $400 million.

As the judge in his case pointed out, he got caught before he was able to steal Madoffian billions, so couldn’t be sentenced to 150 years like Bernie; but I’m not sure freeing him short of his full sentence was a good look, especially because the old guy no doubt has even at this late date much more larceny in him. Lock up your money.

The next day, food and drinks with another trustee, Hilton Kramer, and a second guest cost the university $707. Mr. Kramer [was] The New York Observer’s art critic and a media critic for The New York Post.

The meal charges were actually modest; it was the bar tab that drove up the grand total. The bill was $454 for the 1982 Brion wine and Martell 100 cognac that Dr. Silber and Dr. Diamandopoulos drank. And the 1983 Chaval and Martell that he and Mr. Kramer sipped cost $552.

Whenever UD reads about the efforts of this or that university administrator to blow the school’s money on personal indulgences, she remembers the golden age of Diamandopoulos/Silber/Kramer, and it all seems so small. I mean yeah the current chancellor of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities has apparently blown the money he got from hardworking parents on bogus moving expenses, double-paid housing allowances, school credit card abuse, $1,000 per ride chauffeured trips, und so weiter. But does all of that even begin to form the Russian imperial picture of the guys sipping five hundred dollar cognac? Babe, you know they left some of that cognac on the table, or hurled it at their server, just to say HAHAFUCKYOUFUCKEVERYBODY.

I’m not getting that intensity of vibe from Terrence Cheng, though the limo rides are impressive. But even they lack the FUCKTHEWORLD psychosis of his predecessors, one of whom was so spectacularly filthy that he got a whole book written about him.

Who knew wee Reagan Airport was one of the most dangerous places to land/take off in America? If you grew up here, like ol’ UD, you think of Reagan as the dinky downhome alternative to sleek vast Saarinen-designed Dulles (with BWI — we’re really spoiled; lots of terminals near ‘thesda — a kind of afterthought for a quick hop to Bermuda). Now it turns out that self-important assholes have been jamming the place and creating a hellscape people in charge of the airport have been screaming about forever. Reagan Airport “is probably the most dangerous airport in the United States,” one pilot wrote in 2015. “The controllers are pushing, pushing, pushing in an attempt to handle the traffic they have.”

And ain’t it sweet that little Wichita’s Rep. pushed and pushed and got a daily flight out there THAT THE AIRPORT CAN BARELY HANDLE AND ITS ADMINISTRATION HAS BEEN BEGGING FOR ALL THE ADDITIONAL FLIGHTS TO STOP.

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That copter thing. Reminds me of the Rennert/Bloomberg thing of just landing your immense thundering personal helicopter whenever and wherever you feel like it — illegality, and torment of homeowners, be damned.

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“Every senator in particular wants a nonstop flight to and from wherever they live,” said [Peter] DeFazio, an Oregon Democrat. He noted that a reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration passed last year added even more flights to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. “The airport said, ‘Don’t do it.’ And they did it. So they added to what DCA said is already an overly congested and over-capacity airport.” (Congress has added more than 60 new flights to Reagan since 2000, over the objections of airport officials.)

… The airport authority said, “We are over capacity. We cannot accommodate more flights, and we think this is going to be disruptive.” Unfortunately, … Congress mandated adding more flights into National Airport, so that more senators can have direct flights. I was chairman of the committee, and I always had to connect somewhere. I didn’t ask for a direct flight. So, that’s a problem. That is a problem, the political influence over the airport, as most recently exhibited in the last FAA bill. So, I think we might need to revisit the amount of traffic.

How third world, my dears. Bigass military egos, bigass senatorial egos, and here we are. Disgusting.

When they also run programs, and when it’s a conspiracy, it can be close to impossible.

UCLA – a pretty respectable school – handed the running of its orthodontics school over to a set of buddies who made a point of admitting students from way-rich middle east kingdoms. Once in residence, these students were ordered to come up with, er, supplemental fees in the tens of thousands of dollars, and if they didn’t they’d be out on their oil-rich asses.

Not sure how the school figured out what was going on, but for reasons of its own the school – after throwing the members of the conspiracy out – did nothing by way of prosecution of anyone, and worked hard to keep a report about their malfeasance secret.

Amy Wax loudly espouses views that most reasonable people find repellent. This does not justify punishing her for expressing them. Her suspension, with the other penalties, is a kind of ritual act, an unconvincing performance of moral purity. 

John McWhorter was right back in October, when he defended the free speech rights of U Penn’s benighted law professor; and now that she has, with great fanfare, sued the university for having imposed sanctions on her, this long sad story will continue for some time to play out.

FWIW, ol’ UD figures she’ll win her case and get herself some money and an apology. Her lawyers can easily point to really disgusting speech from U Penn professors that has occasioned not a peep.

That’d be Jews standing around drinking the blood of Gazans, vs Wax showing her racism. Lots of ick to go around at Penn apparently.

Wax is old and has cancer – maybe Penn thinks it can wait this out.

It’s hard to beat Operation Sudden Fall, but practically incinerating one of our frat pledges at an illegal party comes close. Scummy frats and don’t give a shit administrations remain central to the life of the mind at SDSU; expect more good shit from our school’s unique perspective on higher education.

His declaration that the Nazi gas chambers were “merely a detail” of World War Two history and that the Nazi occupation of France was “not especially inhumane” were for many people repulsive.

The arrest of prof. Dairon Garcia for drug trafficking is the latest of too many to count instances of high-level sleaze. Feast your eyes on this blog’s coverage of the nation’s dirtiest med school.

‘So why are none of its executives going to prison?‘