ANNOUNCEMENT ON 6/9/13:
Since posting the below a few days ago, some of our 65,000 readers have sent us leads to "smoking gun" financial documents re: The Alexander Family and The Oxford Round Table. In order to fully verify and include those documents in Installment 7B, we are pushing back our 7B posting deadline by a few days. So, please be patient -- it will be well worth the wait!!! And thanks again to our readers who were willing to point us to the truth based on their inside knowledge.
INSTALLMENT 7A
Before you read the following, please make sure to read Installment 4 and Installment 6 of THUG. These will give you context and information relevant to what comes next.
In order to post many documents along with our wild and woolly tale, digital space limitations are forcing us to split this new Installment into two parts -- Installment 7A and Installment 7B.
Today we hereby post 7A. Please read, digest, deliberate, send us comments and questions, and then come back when we post 7B!
THE ALEXANDER FAMILY VALUES
The material you are about to read and review will be supplemented with additional documentary evidence and sent to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Justice, State Auditors for California, Kentucky, Illinois, and Florida, and the relevant authorities in England and at INTERPOL.
This material has all been found in the public record, but leads to it have come from THUG's readers.
There are many of you out there who have either suspected or known the truth of these events -- we thank those of you who have already come forward, and we encourage more of you to contact us or other investigative reporters or the authorities. Confidentiality and anonymity can be protected.
The following, written and collated for THUG The Book, is presented in the form of a closing argument in a criminal proceeding. Public record documentary evidence is included. THUG's editors hope that this will lead to a real criminal proceeding, but we very much trust the various authorities to make that determination. At all times, THUG will cooperate with any and all authorities, including requests from Grand Juries.
Dear Readers, it's not that the truth will set us free, it's that only the truth will set us free.
THE INDICTMENT
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, this is neither a complicated case nor a complicated crime. And the motives are matter-of-fact and fundamental: the defendants are driven by greed and ego. Greed. Ego. The two go hand in glove for these defendants. They have found a way to create unearned prestige, knowing they can market it for personal profit by cheating the public, and then they can hide the ill-gotten proceeds from the tax man by using a double helix of corporate "fronts".
But even that is not enough.
For people like this, there is never enough money and there are never enough pats on the back. Because underneath it all they know they are imposters, because in their own minds they are only as good as their next con. They are hopelessly hooked on a life of lies, thumbing their noses at the laws of those they are fleecing, energized by their next phony accomplishment, self-satisfied that they have seduced innocent victims into momentarily turning away from their own moral compasses.
As with all confidence games, the con artist's first move is to place his trust in his victim, his "mark". That leads to the mark returning the trust and buying into the con. Of course, all of this is dependent on the con artist being credible, seeming to be what he appears to be.
The defendants in this case are all remarkable con artists.
Let's go back to the beginning, and the father of this conspiracy.
Samuel Maxwell Kern Alexander Jr. was not a profoundly accomplished student, and his degrees are not deemed prestigious within the tough standards of academia. His terminal degree is not a Ph.D, it's an Ed.D, and it's in Academic Administration. In other words, it's a professional degree, not a scholar's degree. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but by the same token nothing right enough to get Kern a professorship after graduation.
Instead, Kern worked various short term jobs until he followed his own father's path into government agencies from which he could use inside information and connections to personal benefit.
For Kern, a brief stint at the Kentucky Department of Education, and then a brief stint at the U.S. Office of Education where he was involved with the administration of grants.
And this is where it gets fun, where the game is finally afoot.
While working at the U.S. Office of Education, Kern developed and got himself a national education finance grant through his employer, the U.S. Office of Education.
He then took that grant and shopped it along with himself to various universities, until he got a bite from the University of Florida which wanted to run that grant through their accounts and administer it there and credit it to their books there, because increasing their grant portfolio would up their credibility and lead to other grants. So the University of Florida negotiated to give Kern an Associate Professorship that would become tenured. Bottom line: Kern used his government job to get government money, and then used that money to buy himself his first professorship.
Now Kern is not charged with any crime for that. It actually seems to be legal, and it was a long time ago. But most of us would agree it's wrong, it's a way of gaming the system, of undermining the system. It's insider trading in public institutions. We can only wonder about the worthy grant applicants who were denied because Kern dipped into the till from his inside position. And we can only wonder about the talented and accomplished professors who were unable to get a job at the University of Florida because all they had was genuine scholarship rather than a cash entry fee.
But the key to this seminal event in Kern's life is that it proved to him that he could work both ends of the system for money. He got paid a U.S. government salary while he was getting himself a grant, and then he got paid by Florida while he was using the grant.
Nice work if you can get it.
So, a few years later, Kern Alexander got into the education finance business, even as he was a Professor at the University of Florida. The goal? Be a hero to schools and teachers alike by brokering public education while making vast commissions for himself from all sides.
This was when Kern Alexander decided to start creating corporations, and this is when Kern Alexander started to conduct himself in violation of myriad laws, bringing in family and friends and the family lawyer as co-conspirators, all of them creating a legacy and what would become a vast forty-one year history of racketeering and money laundering involving dozens of Alexander Family corporations, leading to at least twenty-five "involuntarily dissolutions" of those corporations by States and governments for the Alexander Family's failure to file reports and/or tax returns, and failure to pay fees, penalties, and/or taxes.
If only that was all there was to this mess.
The re-direction of State funds to private pockets and then into an Alexander Family Congressional campaign certainly compounds the complexity. But, when a group of people find they can con folks and public institutions out of millions of dollars a year, well, that group of conspirators is really operating as their own little shadow government, aren't they? Our laws don't apply to them, as far as they're concerned. They make their own rules, all of which feather their own nests at someone else's expense.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, let's go to the charts and documents now, so you can see how forty-one years of a criminal conspiracy have played out.
First, let's define the names we shall be using to refer to our defendants. We have to define this carefully, because the defendants use all sorts of aliases that make them hard to trace.
Although let's pause for a moment to take that in.
Here we have Presidents of Universities, advisors to the highest levels of government, men who earn vastly more than the President of the United States, and a woman in charge of a multi-million dollar international business. And yet, when it comes to signing legal documents, they use a variety of ever-changing aliases. Not nicknames. This is not like John Kennedy being called Jack by his friends and family. These are not nicknames or pet names. The Alexanders have plenty of those as well.
No, we are looking at what the Alexanders sign onto legal documents, under penalty of perjury, promising that, if they are not who they say they are, then they are committing a crime.
And what we find is that, when signing those documents, the Alexanders fluidly change their real names to made-up names, sometimes pretending that they are not even Alexanders at all.
Worse -- if this could possibly get worse -- in some State legal filings we find that the same Alexander uses two different names and two different signatures; and in other filings we find outright forgeries.
That's right.
Imposture. Forgery.
The means of serving Greed. And Ego.
So, as you read the chart of aliases below, ask yourself the one question I am going to repeat to you again and again and again in every context relating to the Alexanders:
Who are these people and why do they act this way?
Because, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, this is conduct that is not mistaken -- these are not stupid or inattentive people -- this is conduct that is fully purposeful and has criminal intent.
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Now we are going to look at the chart of the Alexander Family Corporations.
It should go right into a RICO prosecution handbook.
Folks, this is what white collar crime looks like. Grisham writes about things like this. The Gambinos lived it. The Alexanders seared it with their own special brand.
There are zillion dollar multi-national businesses that don't have this many corporations under their umbrella. Any lawyer, accountant, or prosecutor would take one look at this chart and -- on sight -- know that it is a map of racketeering.
But let's do a quick 411 on the whys and wherefores of corporations before you review the chart.
If you are running a business and go to an attorney or accountant to ask whether you need to incorporate that business, the answer you get will be easy to understand: if your business has or expects to have an annual total income of $100,000 or more, received in bits and pieces from multiple sources (customers/clients/employers), and you mean to personally benefit from this corporate income, then you should create a corporation and it should be a "for-profit corporation". There are other factors to be considered, but the main thing is the amount of income, its sources, and your capitalist bent. Why is this dispositive? Because a for-profit corporation confers these essential rewards:
UPSIDE TO "FOR PROFIT" CORPORATIONS
1. Tax Savings.
(a) The corporate tax rate is lower than the personal tax rate when income is high enough.
(b) A corporation can pay for many of your personal expenses and deduct it from taxes. Car, travel, computer, medical and health insurance, entertainment, etc. -- in varying ways and varying degrees, these are legitimate business expenses for a corporation even though they are not fully available to you on a personal tax return.
(c) A corporation can use income to set up a pension plan for you that has more flexibility, fewer limits, and more access than a personal or 401K plan.
2. Insulation from Creditors and Lawsuits.
You and your personal assets are safe from creditors and lawsuits which arise from the operation, sales of goods and services, and other conduct of corporate business. The more customers you have and the more sales/service orders you fill, the more likely someone will sue, but they have to sue the corporation rather than you, and "the corporate veil" protects you personally.
3. Assets and Branding.
In addition to selling good and services, a corporation and its proprietary holdings and name and reputation can lead to branding which is an asset that has cash market value for you. Branding is more legally protectible when held by a corporation.
4. Credit and Banking.
(a) When you have a corporation, you can obtain a Federal Tax ID Number. With proof of incorporation and a Tax ID Number you can open a corporate bank account.
(b) Because it has its own assets and bank accounts, a corporation has its own credit rating and access to borrowing at favorable interest rates.
So why doesn't everybody incorporate their for-profit business? This is a matter of "transaction costs".
In order to own and operate a corporation, you have to follow corporate laws and regulations. Failure to do so means that you lose all the foregoing advantages. But there are costs associated with following the laws and regulations:
COSTS OF "FOR-PROFIT" CORPORATIONS
1. Annual Reports.
A corporation must make an annual filing to keep the State and the public informed as to the corporation's address, its agent for service of process, and the names of its officers, directors, and owner/shareholders. This filing costs about $15 (it varies slightly from State to State). It is a simple form that takes less than a minute to fill out, sign and date under penalty of perjury. If there's been no change in the contents since the previous year, it only takes five seconds to check off a "no change" box and sign. Today, this can be done on-line, with electronic signature. Previously, the State would send you the form by snail mail, and you would sign and date, attach your $15 check, and mail back.
2. Tax Returns.
A corporation must file an annual tax return. There are minimum taxes due Federally and in virtually all States, including the relevant States of Florida, Kentucky, and Illinois. Generally, minimum State franchise taxes are paid a year ahead and Federal taxes are paid quarterly, based on the last tax return.
3. Corporate Accounting.
A corporate tax return must be filled out by an objective accountant who reconciles the bank statements to the corporation's bookkeeping. The accountant is "on the line" for this under law. Accountants charge much more to prepare a corporate return than a personal return, not just for the added time in preparation but for the cost of malpractice insurance in case of error. Even a single employee corporation could easily cost $3500 in annual tax return preparation fees, and could just as easily be much higher.
4. Payroll Tax.
A corporation must pay payroll taxes. If you are an employee of your own corporation, you will pay your personal payroll taxes in addition to what your corporation pays.
By adding up these transaction costs and comparing them to the tax savings and other benefits of incorporating, each person decides whether or not to incorporate "for profit".
But there are also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit" corporate entities available for the right sort of business, and these corporations are based on a different set of considerations.
"NON-PROFIT" CORPORATIONS
1. Tax Exemption.
Under the law, "non-profit" corporations, exist "for the public good" in specified areas, like education. And, for that reason, the non-profit corporations get exemptions from taxation.
2. Illegal for Corporate Officers/Directors to Make Personal Profit.
Unlike for-profit corporations, non-profit corporations do not have shareholders or owners, they only have directors whose job is to protect the public trust that the corporation serves. In most States, those directors are absolutely forbidden from being paid employees of the corporation; in some States they can contract to do carefully circumscribed work for carefully restricted pay.
In all events, no one is allowed to profit from a non-profit corporation.
The failure to follow these rules invalidates the non-profit corporation and wipes out its tax exemption.
Were you to go see your attorney or accountant and ask whether your business should be set up as a non-profit rather than a for-profit corporation, the answer will be: "I'm sorry, I don't understand the question. This is either a break-even business for the public good, or it's a capitalist enterprise for your good. It can't be both."
But, as you are about to see, The Alexander Family doesn't see it that way because, as Kern taught them, Alexanders are entitled to have their cake and eat it too.
So, in the case of The Alexander Family, they decided to create for-profit corporations at least twenty-three times.
And they also created seven "not-for-profit" or "non-profit" corporations.
That's at least thirty corporations in all.
AND TWENTY-FOUR OF THEM SEEM TO BE CONDUCTING EXACTLY THE SAME SORT OF BUSINESS -- EDUCATION FINANCING, EDUCATION SEMINARS, EDUCATION PUBLISHING, AND EDUCATION CONSULTING.
OF THOSE, AT LEAST TEN SEEM TO BE RUNNING THE SAME SINGLE BUSINESS, THE BUSINESS OF "THE OXFORD ROUND TABLE".
How is this possible? Why so many corporations doing the exact same thing, run by the same people using aliases and forged signatures and operating in the same jurisdictions and at the same addresses which just happen to be the varying home addresses of The Alexander Family? All these businesses and yet none have an actual business office, only the home addresses of the Alexanders.
Does this make any sense to you? Do you have to be a lawyer, accountant, MBA, academic scholar, or University President to see that something smells here, that the Alexanders and their octopus of corporations are due a very public investigation?
What was that question I told you we would come back to, again and again and again? Remember?
Who are these people and why do they act this way?
When you review the next chart and examine the twenty-three for-profit corporations, you might want to take into your deliberations the following:
(1) there are no transaction costs if you simply duck out of paying them,
(2) there are no corporate taxes if you don't report income,
(3) spreading vast income across multiple bank accounts for multiple corporations in several jurisdictions allows you to reduce the noticeable amount in any one account even as you are able to take the same deduction over and over again if you ever do get forced into filing tax returns,
(4) dissolved corporations are not legally allowed to do business but banks do not close the accounts of dissolved corporations,
(5) dissolved corporations fall off government radar unless someone like THUG shines a light on them,
(6) the use of multiple aliases provides auditors no invitation or easy path to cross-auditing,
(7) a Swiss bank account is the best way to hide your booty at the end of the money trail.
Those are just a few of the reasons that criminals operate this way.
Do the Alexanders have a better explanation?
As for the seven non-profit corporations on the chart, recall that their directors are not legally allowed to profit, so ask yourself how the exact same people who are running and profiting from a for-profit corporation could legally run a simultaneous non-profit corporation that operates the exact same business under the same or similar name?
Can the Alexanders explain how they accomplish this feat, when the laws against it are so obvious and clear?
Who are these people and why do they act this way?
I will answer all those questions for you, and will provide more public record documentary proof to justify my answers, but first:
Here is the chart of The Alexander Family Corporations.
Page One of the chart details the involvement of individual Alexanders and points out the Involuntary Dissolutions for more than five hundred failures to file reports and/or tax returns, and the same number of failures to pay fees, penalties and/or taxes.
Page Two of the chart gives you all the State corporate ID numbers and the available Federal Tax ID numbers, so that you can do your own research. Links are provided to take you to the corporations which exist in Kentucky, because that State's website has hyperlinks to actual document filings signed by the Alexanders. Later I will show you actual filings we have obtained from Illinois and England. We note again that, due to the Alexanders' strategic addiction to creating corporations, this chart is likely incomplete and that more corporations will soon be discovered.
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For those of you who abhor links or want instantaneous assurance that the foregoing chart reflects the record, we now provide you with the corporate snapshots from the governmental websites.
1. Maxwell-King Company, Inc.
3. The Institute For Public Employee Affairs, Inc.
4. Weston Kern Company, Inc.
6. Wheelin' For Health, Inc
7. Kids In Shape, Inc
8. Education Policy Research, Inc.
13. Florida School Finance Project, Inc.
14. SK Alexander, Inc.
15. Florida Limited Liability Company
16. Oxford Round Table, Inc.
17. Oxford Round Table North America, Inc
18. Journal For Education Finance, NFP
19. Journal Of Education Finance, NFP
20. Barbourville Development Company, LTD
21. Sonny's Bar-B-Q On Red Mile Parkway, Inc.
22. Education Policy Research, Inc.
23. Oxford Round Table, Inc.
24. Oxbridge, LLC
25. Shenette Consulting and Associates, Inc.
26. Oxford Roundtable of Godstow Hall, Inc.
27. Alexander for Congress 2002, Inc.
28. Journal of Education Finance, LLC
28. Shenette Consulting and Associates, Inc.
29. Oxford Round Table Limited
Feeling overwhelmed by all this data? So am I. Take tonight and deliberate.
Who are these people and why do they at this way?
Sleep on this. Conjecture. Research. Post questions and comments below, or e-mail us at info@thugthebook.com.
AND THEN COME BACK WHEN WE POST INSTALLMENT 7B, WHERE WE WILL GIVE YOU THE FINAL ANALYSIS, MORE DOCUMENTS, MORE ALLEGATIONS, AND DETAILED PROOF OF EVERYTHING BEYOND ANY REASONABLE DOUBT.
It is not just that only the truth will set us free, it's that no matter how fast you run, in the end you cannot hide.
And for some, this will be the end.
THUG The Book Is designed so you can read the Installments in any order you want.
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Installment Ten - Cookin' The Books Alexander Style
Installment Nine - The Riddle of The Stinks
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Well done! Eagerly awaiting the next installment.
ReplyDeleteThe next details specific representative instances and provides the exact documents which prove it. This while thing continues to amaze me. So brazen. Meanwhile, thank you so much for your support -- it means a lot to know there are readers out there are "getting it".
DeleteThis is awesome.
ReplyDeleteThanks for fighting for truth and honesty, and for students.
What has been F.King Alexander's response to all of this?
Has he or his family tried to stop you from showing the world all this public information?
Really excellent question and one I ask myself every day when I go to the mailbox or answer the doorbell or phone. In fact, we've not heard a word from any of these folks directly. Alexander and Para declined to join me for a polygraph test some months ago ("declined" in that they declined to respond to my lawyer's offer that we do it). And, they've sent nothing to us about THUG. But King Alexander did rush over to frantically buttonhole a CSU VIP at graduation and bellow "Have you read what Lane's writing about me??? He's slandering me all over Louisiana!!!" The VIP replied "Yes, I've been reading it. And it's all true." That shut the King up pretty good, I am told. My position is that if they write me or sue me, it just gives me more stuff to publish -- it sets them up for me to depose them under oath AND gives me more of their bogus claims to post in their own words. Let's not forget that truth is an absolute defense to a defamation claim. And let's also not forget that liars generally lose track of their lies, so getting them on record and under oath is the perfect way to nail them to the wall. I really cannot wait to be regaled by whatever crazy nonsense they come up with to explain this mess. My betting is they will attempt to pin it on fall guys within their own group.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I expected they'd be silent, or at least as silent as possible, in order to not add anymore to it. I love how so many people connected to them are giving up so much information. It's really telling.
DeleteHopefully it'll result in the Kern cartel being removed from all things education and the various crimes committed will result in appropriate punishments.
Perhaps they can have an Oxford round table in prison, for their new friends?
Thanks for fighting the good fight.
The truth will always be the truth and this really matters.
Thanks!
Your comment is much appreciated. Detailed documents and allegations to come this Sunday! Cannot even imagine how the Alexanders wil be able to respond to that! I mean, forged signatures and the use of aliases lead to only one conclusion. And then, there are all those missing millions and millions of dollars.
DeleteIt's amazing that the Baton Rouge Advocate has not been covering this. Maybe its because the LSU Board of Supervisors has appealed the newspaper's win in the lower courts to reveal who the applicants were to the president/chancellor position and they don't want to make it look like they are on a witch hunt against Alexander before that appeal plays out. Maybe they are waiting for your next installment, to see if it proves indictable acts. In any case, we here in Louisiana are grateful that you are injecting some California balls into our state. We tend to be too fatalistic about corruption and only really understand how wrong it is when the feds swoop in with the handcuffs. Thanks to the investigative reporting of bloggers (not the mainstream media) it now looks like the entire push to lease out operations of the public hospitals to private corporations is rife with insider deals and (I would guess) kickbacks. I suspect that would have provided the model to do the same to the public universities. But the FBI seems to be onto it and the Civil Service Commission refused to approve laying off the hospital employees on the basis of lease contract to the private corporation that contains 50 blank pages, including the price of the lease. You truly cannot make this stuff up!
ReplyDeleteSadly, our experience at CSULB is that the first thing Alexander did was "buy" the local newspapers. Let's hope the fabled Advocate remembers to advocate for truth rather than serve as a mouthpiece for the Alexanders and the Jindals of the world. Thank you so much for you comments!!!
ReplyDeleteHow does one "buy" a newspaper? Brian, I am learning so much about the way con artists can operate and profit with apparent impunity. Please continue your investigations and keep up the pressure.
DeleteThank you, thank you!
These days newspapers are thin and mostly grab their stories from the wire. The advertising dollar determines their fates. Alexander created something called "the student excellence fund" which is a surcharge that each CSULB student must pay, and which goes to advertising for CSULB sports. That more than takes care of the Long Beach Press Telegram and the other local rags. Also, Long Beach is a small town and CSULB is its largest group demographic. The newspapers won't bite the hand that feeds them. As for the Daily 49er, the student newspaper, Alexander is personally in control of its funding on an ad hominem basis, and he's shown he will cut their budget in a given year if they've been "bad" the year before. He also sucks up to the kids in the Associated Students organizations (like the Daily 49er) and promises them recommendations, even as he wants their lone voter to push him for the CSU presidents' award. And thank you for your comments! The next chapter is a hammer, for sure. Readers like you have sent me new documents that are extraordinarily damning. Stay tuned!
DeleteExactly! Just remember "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." -Voltaire
DeleteAnd yet, Voltaire courted danger! It is the stuff of life. Danger and creativity. Either create something or make trouble -- that's how you know you are alive. Also, the only real danger is the debilitation of the soul that comes from not being involved and not standing up for what's right. Better a thorn than a salve, because without thorns the salves cease to be. And, finally, no perturbation, no evolution, only extinction.
DeleteDoes the one brother really go by F...King Alexander? He must have taken some ribbing in school over that one.
ReplyDeleteHe uses "F. King Alexander" as his official published name but has everyone call him "King". He's apparently more embarrassed by "Fieldon" than "F. King". Go figure, right? And thank you for your comment! Just wait til you see the next and final chapter in this saga -- where the charges get specific and the documentary evidence doesn't lie.
DeleteGrazie, prego! Aiming for High Noon this Sunday for the game-set-match Installment.
ReplyDeleteDear, Brian Alan Lane
ReplyDeleteSomewhere in a previous comment you mentioned that tomorrow will be the last chapter in "this saga." I hope you're only referring to the Alexander mess. There will be more chapters won't there? I check every day for the one on Blumenthal. I "met" her online and we spoke for two years; I could probably tell you a thing or two....Thanks so much for being so BRAVE!
I so appreciate the enthusiasm for THUG. If you or any reader has any info on anything they think should be covered in THUG, please send to info@thugthebook.com !!! And, yes, you are right: there is way much more story to tell once we put the last nail in the Alexanders' story, but that likely awaits a full-blown book rather than blog postings. We shall see! In all events, you won't be disappointed.
DeleteAm I looking in the right place for the next installment, 7B? Or did you not post it yet?
ReplyDeleteHi! Thanks for the question!!! We have now added an explanation to 7A to explain that 7B is delayed for a very good reason: sources have legally dropped Alexander Family and Oxford Round Table financial documents in our lap, and we are in the process of verifying and analyzing since they seem dispositive. At this moment, a government forensic accountant who specializes in education audits is poring through the material and gathering additional material, as am I. The goal of 7B is to have a case package wrapped with a bow that the Feds and local Grand Juries will all have to act on. We are talking about a 75 million dollar RICO case here, with even larger possibilities. And, yes, we have been proven right as to all our worst fears about what these folks are up to. So please stay tuned and do check back in a few days. We will be publishing the analyses, the actual documents, and even some substantial audio of Alexanders in action.
DeleteThanks, Brian. I'm just an interested observer, finding the whole thing fascinating. It's a highly original plot and the characters are intriguing. Grisham could not have come up with cooler names for the characters: Kern, King, etc. Also, an academic crime family has got to be a first as a plot idea. And it has international connections to Oxford and Switzerland. I can see the whole thing as a film, maybe like that House of Cards series that Netfilx did with Kevin Spacey but exposing the same sort of stuff at universities as in Washington. Just remember that Louisiana has great tax credits for filming and LSU has a beautiful campus. Except for the Oxford and Long Beach scenes, a lot of it could be filmed in Baton Rouge. Have you licensed the film rights yet?
DeleteThis is a great idea! As soon as King gets to LSU, I'll apply for filming permits! And it's totally true: Louisiana is a wonderful and welcoming state to film in!! Thanks for your comments -- and for all our readers being patient in waiting for our next post. Coming soon, and coming loud!
DeletePlease don't title it "Amateur Nite in Dixie". That might not play well in Louisiana. We are good at laughing at ourselves but this is too serious a business for comedy.
DeleteThank you so much for this comment! It addresses what has become the schizoid nature of this project. I first started posting "My eleven years behind enemy lines at CSULB" -- a book about my life as a professional writer who, late in life, had gone into teaching in order "to give back", only to find the university to be bogus and corrupt and no longer serving its mission of teaching and creating opportunities for its worthy students. This was then a tale of Southern California, introducing SoCal folks like Steven Spielberg and the famous entertainment lawyer who is famous for his "Amateur Nite in Dixie" line. He returns in later chapters for other purposes, along with George Clooney, among others. Political correctness was not an issue because I was telling a good yarn about real people, and depicting them accurately. BUT THEN, in the middle of the postings, the news broke that King Alexander was going to LSU, and then LSU published his C.V. and then Tom Aswell at Louisiana Voice introduced me to the Oxford Round Table, and the on-line version of the book went in a totally new direction, more news than narrative, exposing the truths of the Alexanders, because that story has turned out to be nothing less than the biggest Academic Ponzi Scheme ever! So, I totally agree, the current version of THUG -- the on-line "news" version, which is rapidly drawing to a sad and triumphant close -- should maintain its political correctness so that its message does not get hidden behind emotional verbiage, and you will find that m.o. to be true in these later chapters. The "Dixie" reference is all the way back in Installment Two, back when this story-telling had a different purpose. When we publish the complete book of that version of things, I believe you will find the reference apt in terms of character, there for the purpose of showing the small-mindedness of its speaker. Again, thank you for your comment!!!
DeleteThen again, this is cartoon is some other Louisianians' take on the tragic story of LSU -- http://robertmannblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/screen-shot-2013-06-17-at-1-43-27-pm.png
DeletePretty funny!
I suppose that comedy has to be part of it or we would all just have to weep about what is happening to what was once a small university on an upward trajectory and is now rapidly being flushed down the drain.
A Confederacy of Dunces is already taken.
DeleteWow, you say a 75 million RICO case! If you deliver the proof of that in 7B, and those allegations are borne out, the Board of Supervisors would have to cancel Alexander's employment contract. You would also think they would sue the search firm they used, Funk and Associates, of Dallas, for not doing a prober background check and asking the right questions. Maybe some would resign out of embarrassment as well? Maybe the professors on the search committee would also resign out of embarrassment? Or maybe they will all express outrage and then save the day by installing an applicant they have held in reserve, as a backup, as the president of LSU. See http://bobmannblog.com/2012/08/16/can-you-say-lsu-president-stephen-moret/
ReplyDeleteGiven the long silence, maybe the author has been knocked off or bought off? Adding another twist to an already intriguing drama.
ReplyDeleteThe Baton Rouge Advocate has already started the disinformation campaign in order to support Alexander at LSU, or maybe to support its own continued access to covering LSU football and thereby earning lots of money. Negatives become spun as positives while ever so slightly altering the record to create a new reality; so his never having advanced beyond untenured Assistant Professor at any university becomes a "big and improbable leap from an associate professor for higher education into the presidency at Murray State." The unanimous vote of nonconfidence in the LSU Board of Supervisors for hiring him by the entire LSU Faculty Senate has been reduced to a lone attack "by a faculty leader who questioned his qualifications." Brian Alan Lane refuses to "elaborate much publicly" on his dispute with Alexander despite all the detailed, documented analysis published on this blog. The Oxford Round Table is not even mentioned, of course, because there is simply no way to spin that into something to be proud of. And to top it all off, the Advocate expects us to believe that Alexander played basketball at the University of Wisconsin-Madison while undertaking his doctoral degree there: "Alexander says part of his philosophy for wanting to increase access to higher education stems from watching his teammates on the University of Wisconsin basketball team struggle financially." None of the Badger media guides for the 1990s, when he was a graduate student at UW, list him on the roster, though (http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/). One hopes this is simply the usual low quality reporting from the hapless staff at the Advocate and they wrote down "teammates" when he said "fellow students". At any rate, that is the sort of thing that will really get the backs up of sports obsessed Louisianians.
ReplyDeleteI've just added our update below. Things have gotten serious. Your comment above is much appreciated. Beyond all the appalling puffery and bullshit in The Advocate article is King's continuous use of "The John Edwards Sympathy Play", and it makes me physically ill. This is now the third consecutive job in which he's used it to pave the way for an easy entrance. But, if you go back, you will find that he's forgotten exactly how he played it the first two times, so his statements are now contradicting themselves. Yes, it is truly tragic that his first wife passed away. That occurred in January 2001, according to what he told reporters at CSULB, and that has been verified in the press for years, until The Advocate now pushes the date back into 2000. The reason for this new timeline from King is to make himself seem less career-oriented and more the sympathetic single father. In fact, here's what Murray State insiders will tell you: as King's wife was passing, Kern abruptly announced that he -- Kern -- was bereaved and needed to retire in order to spend time with his family. MSU was then shocked when, only a few months later, King -- the newly minted widower -- was announced as a finalist for the job, taking the position less than 8 months after his wife died. He was not the only candidate or the only finalist, and they did not ask him to apply, despite what he told The Advocate. The folks there feel the bereavement and sympathy factor was a major part in King finally getting the gig. What is not routinely reported is that King was having an affair with his next wife while he was still married to his dying wife and while the mistress was married to someone else. (Told you John Edwards would be proud.) As a father, King has always been absentee. When he and his two daughters moved to Long Beach, they brought their MSU Nanny with them. Mistress Shenette (coordinator of the Oxford Round Table for the Alexanders) had gotten divorced twice in the meantime, now married King and moved to Long Beach with her daughter, although she was often absent in England for ORT. King's youngest daughter -- the wisest and sanest of the bunch even though she was only 11 years old, born months before her mother died -- now gave up on absentee dad and absentee stepmom and moved to Kentucky with the Nanny in 2011. Contrary to King's carefully constructed and proffered public statements about his family life (which we would consider totally off-limits except he continually uses it and lies about it for maximum "Edwards Effect"), the youngest daughter is staying in Kentucky and not moving to Louisiana. Wife Shenette (Coordinator of The Oxford Round Table) and her daughter were planning on moving to Louisiana until just a few weeks ago, but now they have rented an apartment in Long Beach and are planning to stay there. THUG would consider King's failings as a father and husband to be irrelevant to his potential success or failure as a university administrator, except, as noted, he thinks it's relevant and so he lies about it and constructs an illusion for the press. Colleagues at CSULB were totally unaware there was a third daughter until The Advocate piece came out today. That's because King never told anyone that his youngest had fled. Even at King's self-celebration exit at CSULB a couple of weeks ago, he went out of his way to take press photos with Shenette and two daughters, pretending this was the entire family, never mentioning that his youngest wasn't in attendance. Yes, it's creepy. For the sake of his kids, THUG very much hopes that King Alexander finally gets his priorities straight and takes the time to get his family together rather than his career. Perhaps this will be easier once he's in jail. His kids will likely have more visitation time with him there than they have had up until now.
DeleteI will add one other note, in the hope someone from the University from Illinois-Champaign will send us information. (We already have one source, but we want more!) King Alexander's publication record at Illinois-Champaign was woeful. (He is notoriously neither a scholar nor a writer.) After three years there as probationary tenure track, the record augurs for the conclusion that he would not have been promoted or tenured. It is undeniable that the jump to MSU saved him from further and final review at Illinois-Champaign. It is absurd that he tells The Advocate that MSU talked him into leaving Illinois. Again, any of you out there want to corroborate this? You can maintain confidentiality -- just point us in the right direction!
DeleteI was at Murray State during the Presidential search in which King was the successful candidate. There were three finalists (all males). Each had a town hall-type forum in a large auditorium on campus so anyone interested could attend, hear each finalist present, then ask questions. Faculty, staff and students received an email notice about the three candidates and the three dates on which they would be with us, so this search was well publicized internally. I believe attendees were given evaluation forms to complete if we chose.
DeleteI never heard (nor sensed from King's demeanor during his presentation) that he was having to be persuaded to leave Illinois-Champaign. He was just one of three guys up for the job and he appeared to really want it.
When he announced that he was leaving to go to CSULB some at MSU felt he had just used Murray State as a stepping stone to reach loftier roles. Indeed with his limited experience as a university administrator there is no other way he could have effected such a quick and unlikely meteoric presidential rise.
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This document seems more about LSU's previous Chancellor, who made so many bad personnel decisions that he turned LSU into the only research university in the country currently under censure by the AAUP. The document seems to refer to yet another such bad decision, although involving a campus cop rather than an academic so the AAUP will not be involved. But while Mike Martin made many poor decisions and oversaw a drastic defunding and degrading of LSU, at least he was a pleasant, avuncular guy who meant well but just wasn't up to the task. No one was particularly sad when he made a sideways move to Colorado Sate.
DeleteYes, this concerns gender discrimination against a female LSUPD officer. The LSU student newspaper, the Reveille, is reporting it. Yet from the Advocate, always ready to support the LSU powers that be -- not a peep. Or maybe LSU goings on are not that important to the Advocate. After all, they don't report when an LSU professor invents something, wins a major fellowship, or leaves to accept a position at a better university. No wait, an LSU football player might have a cold: front page news! Well thank God for the students -- athletes, Reveille reporters, and many others -- because without them and various bloggers we would have much less spine to stand up for the truth in Baton Rouge.
DeleteThe THUG team has burgeoned, starting with Brian Lane, but subsequently adding in a prosecuting attorney, a forensic accountant auditor, a class action attorney, and sources from inside the Alexander cabinets and family. The next Installments of THUG will reveal the largest and longest-running Academic Ponzi Scheme in history. Every day new sources and new documents are surfacing, revealing tax evasion, State and Federal money re-routed from schools and into Alexander pockets, even to an Alexander Congressional campaign. Even worse -- if such a thing were possible -- is the Alexander involvement and cover-up of the sale of U.S. social security numbers to aid Korean and Thai citizens to get into the country via the unwitting auspices of State Universities, some as students and some to disappear into the American back country under false identities. Some of our readers have wondered why we have been taking our time to post our next Installment, and the answer is that this matter has become big and serious, and we are already working with the Feds and IRS. All our documents and other materials have already been handed off to our accountants and attorneys for transmittal to the authorities, just in case we should happen to fall off the planet. Yeah, it's that serious. It involves a lot of money, a lot of crimes, and a lot of people who don't want it to come out. This week we will begin publishing multiple short installments -- bite-sized -- since each packs a sizeable wallop and requires your complete attention. As usual, please stay tuned. We realize the above sounds crazy -- it is crazy. But we are dealing with people who are brazen criminals, and we have proved it. They may be brazen and they may be arrogant, but they have not covered their tracks as well as they thought. Thanks to the internet -- to the medium of this blog, of THUG -- a lot of diverse witnesses who didn't know what they knew have now seen how what they do know fits into a puzzle that has long daunted them and given them sleepless nights. Kudos to the good in America. Congratulations to those who decline to close their eyes to corruption and recognize evil when they see it. And, encouragement to those of you who have been on the fence about coming forward with what you know: if ever there was a time, it is now.
ReplyDeletePlease be careful, Brian. I know you are aware that the many millions of dollars you are talking about are enough to make some people ready, willing, and able to do horrible things. Just witness the Penn State scandal. Spanier, Erickson, Sandusky, and the rest covered up heinous crimes for years to keep the football dollars flowing. The Advocate is so reliant on revenue from covering LSU sports that they have already yanked all the reader comments from their cheerleader "article" about Alexander. Speaking of college sports, can you confirm that F. King Alexander did or did not play for the UW-Madison Badgers basketball team? The Advocate has not published a retraction or correction about that "fact" they presumably got from interviewing Alexander so that means they think it is true or want to make him seem more of former student-athlete than he ever was. Which is it? I personally find it hared to believe he would have been on the team while doing a doctorate and being about 30 years old by then. How about some proof, Advocate! We know you read this blog but are just to scared to report any of it.
DeleteThat's right, the Advocate has recently deleted the many comments by readers critical of cheerleading for Alexander in the "LSU's new leader: Earning Respect" article. Thank God for the Internet, blogs, online newsletters, and brave people like Tom Aswell, Bob Mann, Kevin Cope, and Brian Alan Lane! If you drive by media ditto heads at the Advocate are reading this, take a hint and start publishing the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Even a small budget, student newspaper like the Reveille puts the Advocate to shame.
DeleteHear hear, and also the blogger C B Forgotston, for example, http://forgotston.com/2013/06/17/bobby-jindal%E2%80%99s-trained-seals/
DeleteWow! So The Advocate took down the comments AND now won't let any more comments be added!!!!! Without naming names, let me just say I have had much direct interaction with The Advocate lately, and their reporters are intrepidly trying to write the truth but their editors have other agendas. Reason and rationality only seem to prevail when costly legal issues intervene. My personal experience in Long Beach was that Alexander's first move when he got to town was to buy the local press. He and his father and godfather Reed all consider it critical that they own the headlines their way, wherever they are. Alexander even tithed the CSULB student body to fund vast new sports advertising and p.r. that cemented his control of the local press. LSU students, beware! As for Alexander being on the Badgers, no such thing ever occurred. Even his own C.V. doesn't claim that. Supposedly he played for St Lawrence's basketball team as an undergrad. He didn't go to Wisconsin until years later, as a grad student, and would have had no NCAA eligibility. Also, again, he's never made this bizarre claim before. He's also never before made this claim about playing semi-pro in England. Considering he's a guy who claims an award and demands a pat on the back for every time he takes a fully formed shit, and considering the only human thing he talks about is basketball, one would think he would have made this semi-pro claim before. So I'm going to go ahead and have our team research that one. Just because. But the whole timeline in The Advocate article seems wrong and is contradicted by the C.V. that The King gave to LSU in order to get his new job. As I say, stay tuned.
DeleteMEANWHILE, REALLY IMPORTANT: Here's the link to CSULB's Project Greenlight that Alexander takes credit for in The Advocate article: http://www.csulb.edu/misc/inside/archives/vol_57_no_11/f3.htm OOPS! Looks like this was created and fully implemented under former President Maxson and written up in Spring 2005. But Alexander did not get hired by CSULB until 2006. So, no, King, you did not come up with Project Greenlight!!!! Folks, I've been at CSULB since Fall 2002, and, I repeat what I wrote earlier in THUG: King keeps trying to take credit for accomplishments of Maxson. The truth is that King did nothing but gut the education side of our school while inflating management. That is his only true legacy.
Talking about taking down negative material from the Internet, LSU took down Alexander's vita right after you got done analyzing it, weeks ago. That's classic anti-whistleblower behavior. If you are caught, shred the evidence, circle the wagons, and go into denial mode. The above comparison to Spanier, Erickson, Sandusky, and the Penn State Scandal is spot on.
DeleteFirst thing we do is make a copy of any document that we have interest in. So here's a link F. King Alexander's CV that was posted by LSU. Now you can view anytime you want. Just copy and paste the url in your browser http://www.thugthebook.com/f_king_alexander_CV_lsu_2013.pdf and remember that Installment Five is our vetting of Alexander's CV page by page. So there are two ways to view it.
DeleteAt good old Murray State, the regents have voted out the current president and there are reports (http://wkms.org/post/msu-regents-vote-down-contract-extension-dunn-faculty-regent-jack-rose-resigns) that Klint Alexander might be installed as the next one. Klint, several Kerns, King, Kane. This family has more Ks than the KKK.
ReplyDeleteSince Klint was the willing recipient of ill-gotten campaign funds when he ran for Congress (coming up in THUG chapter this week), he might just want to stay out of any public office til the authorities decide just how large a role he played or continues to play in the family racketeering.
DeleteI am real curious to see if the faculty of one of LSU's educational or business type departments is actually going to vote to appoint Alexander as a tenured full professor. That is what is usually done with provosts and chancellors at LSU, but usually they have a credible list of publications to justify it. Consequently we have a few hanging around who were fired from their admin positions but are still here as tenured faculty, among them John V. Lombardi. So, does anyone out there know if a department at LSU has appointed Alexander as a tenured full professor yet? I have seen no report of it yet but it might have been done under the radar.
ReplyDeleteAlexander did receive tenure as a full Professor as part pf his "deal" with LSU.
DeleteCan you say with which department?
DeleteCollege of Human Sciences and Education
DeleteThat makes sense, but the only department in that college that fits his credentials is the School of Education, and he is not listed as faculty on its website. Probably just an error, right?
DeleteThis is worrisome -- "University President King Alexander, is seeking to eliminate the entire Department of Africana Studies" - See more at: http://www.lasentinel.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11069:cal-state-university-long-beach-targets-closing-of-africana-studies-department&catid=80:local&Itemid=170#sthash.CaYYaK8D.dpuf
ReplyDeleteI pray this does not happen at LSU!
I am curious why the title of Alexander's 1991 Oxford thesis is titled "The introduction of local financial management of schools within the new organisational framework : a preliminary inquiry" in Worldcat and the Oxford library whilst on his vita it is titled "Fiscal Management of Education Under the British Education Act of 1988"?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.worldcat.org/title/introduction-of-local-financial-management-of-schools-within-the-new-organisational-framework-a-preliminary-inquiry/oclc/43161652&referer=brief_results
Following up on that, his dissertation title on his vita is also not undifferent from the title in Worldcat and the UW-Madison library catalog, although much less so than in the case of the Oxford thesis.
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From what I have seen, based on the behaviour of some students, that sort of alteration of titles is intended to make it more difficult to find the source of plagiarized materials. Whilst the digitization of many texts makes it easier to find plagiarized paragraphs and so forth, slight alterations can make it more difficult to locate the original source. Are the above referenced theses available digitally?
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