e.g. "IBM Eclipse Foundation" or "racketeering"
(Nov. 26, 2013)―New evidence proves that President Obama is ethically bound to recuse himself from Obamacare decisions, as should his chief technology officer, Todd Y. Park.
Yesterday, AFI received a copy of the 2006 Senate financial disclosure for Edward M. (“Ned”) Lamont and his wife Ann H. Lamont (CLICK HERE). Investigation into the Lamonts began after discovery of her close business associations with Todd Y. Park.
A Spider's Web
A spider's web of self-dealing and conflicts of interest emerged. See. Fig. 1.
The Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch tell employees to "avoid even the appearance of impropriety." Actual undisclosed conflicts of interest are serious offenses, and demand immediate redress to prevent damage to the body politic.
Park only pretended to divest his conflicts
When President Obama first appointed Park to be chief technology officer (CTO) for Health and Human Services (HHS), the press asked Park about his conflicts of interest as founder, director and lobbyist for Athenahealth. Park promised to sell his $30 million in stock and options. Fair enough.
However, instead of divesting himself of his conflicts in 2009, he doubled down. Chief among Athenahealth’s shareholders were Ann H. Lamont; Lamont's venture firm Oak Investments; venture capitalists Draper Fisher, Cardinal Health and Venrock; and his brother Ed Y. Park.
The price of Todd Y. Park’s soul: $160 million
A year earlier, in Jan. 2008, Park had formed Castlight Health. On Aug. 4, 2009, Park was appointed HHS CTO by President Obama. Then, just 10 months later in Jun. 2010, Park’s private Castlight Health company received a whopping $60 million investment from Morgan Stanley, Oak Investments (Ann H. Lamont), Venrock and the Cleveland Clinic. He received another $100 million in May 2012. T. Rowe Price jumped on the second-round bandwagon.
Park's conflicts are astounding. No less than three of the Athenahealth entities with whom Park had earlier admitted conflicts, were now back on center stage privately funding Castlight Health. Concurrently, Park was designing and developing HealthCare.gov―without disclosing these conflicts. As troubling, President Obama’s chief adviser on Obamacare, Robert Kocher, MD, joined Venrock and the Castlight Health board of directors, along with Ann H. Lamont, and Facebook’s CFO, David A. Ebersman.
These conflicts were layered on top of Park’s prior association with government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton where he was formerly employed. Booz Allen is the primary subcontractor to HealthCare.gov contractor CGI Federal. CGI’s senior vice president, Toni Townes-Whitley, is a friend and fellow college alum of Michelle Obama. In any professional public board room, giving preference to friends and family is a conflict of interest on its face. CGI received the $634 million HealthCare.gov contract without a bid. Such conduct can only be described as audacious impropriety.
In addition, the HealthCare.gov website claims the social networking technology it uses is "open source," yet fails to disclose that Columbus innovator Leader Technologies proved Facebook guilty on 11 of 11 counts of infringing Leader's patent. Facebook's counter is that it prevailed on an "on-sale bar" verdict. (See previous post.) The on-sale bar verdict was achieved without evidence, and is mired in corruption since all the judges, including Chief Justice John G. Roberts, held stock in Facebook during the proceedings.
In yet another layer, Mark Zuckerberg withheld 28 hard drives and Harvard emails from Leader's attorneys, then lied to the court that they were lost. In fact, they were in the possession of Facebook's appeals attorney, Thomas G. Hungar, Gibson & Dunn LLP, the entire time, by the admission of Facebook's own experts in Ceglia v. Zuckerberg. The courts have taken no steps to redress this evident misconduct. All Facebook arguments are attorney sophistry, not hard evidence. Clearly, that's all that these corrupt federal judges needed not to rule against Facebook to protect their personal financial interests.
Todd Y. Park works for Facebook. Pres. Obama along for the ride
Researchers discovered late last week that Ann Lamont served as a director of the National Venture Capital Association (NCVA) at the same time as James W. Breyer, Accel Partners (Facebook former director and largest shareholder); Robert C. Ketterson, Fidelity Funds (large Facebook investor); and Anne Rockhold, a previous Vanguard (large Facebook investor) CFO and current Accel Partners CFO. The researchers suspected that direct financial relationships were lurking in the weeds.
The White House and HHS failed to produce Park's financial disclosures, but Ned and Ann Lamont's was located. Lamont ran as the Democratic candidate against Democrat turned Independent Senator Joe Lieberman in the 2006.
The hard proof of Park's conflicting relationships emerged on page 93 of 96. The impropriety of Lamont's failure to disclose the value of these holdings aside, Lamont nonetheless disclosed the names of four venture capital funds owned by Ann H. Lamont, namely:
- Meritech Capital Affiliates II, LP.
- Meritech Capital Affiliates, LP.
- Oak Meritech II, LLC.
- Oak Meritech Associates III, LLC.
Venture capitalists use mundane names likes these for their investing entities. The names tend to be variations of "Affiliates," "Associates," "Holdings" along with roman numerals. It is not unusual to see five or ten variants of the same fund in a single round of investing.
Park and Lamont are members of the Facebook Club
In 2004, Lamont’s "Meritech Capital Affiliates, LP" (see No. 2 above) invested with James W. Breyer and many of his partners at Accel Partners in PeopleSupport, Inc. Lamont and Breyer were both National Venture Capital Association directors at the time. These SEC records prove that Lamont and Park are tied to Breyer and other key Facebook interests. In addition, Meritech was a part of the group of Facebook insiders who cashed in over $16 billion of their shares on Day 3 of the Facebook IPO, during the supposed NASDAQ "glitch," before the price plummeted.
Lamont’s portfolio shows 62 Goldman Sachs and 19 JPMorgan Chase investment funds valued at up to $71 million. The portfolio reads like a Who's Who of the Facebook IPO. Fidelity, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, T. Rowe Price, Microsoft, IBM, even Boston Scientific. All these entities had a vested financial interest in ensuring that Facebook went public years later. This explains the silence from the financial press when Leader Technologies proved in 2010 that Facebook is infringing its patent.
America’s healthcare data shipped to Sweden
Facebook has a fully operational server center offshore, in Lulea, Sweden (Ashlee Vance. (Oct. 04, 2013). "Inside the Artic Circle, Where Your Facebook Data Lives." Business Week.). If we let these people continue to manipulate America's healthcare data, it is certain that America’s private healthcare information will be "liberated" to overseas locations like Sweden, well beyond the reach of U.S. law and accountability. It should also be noted that Sweden currently leads the charge for the Islamification of Europe where rape of Swedish women by immigrants from the Middle East is hardly enforced.
HealthCare.gov: Parable of the wise and foolish builders
Jesus Christ’s parable of the wise and foolish builders comes to mind when considering what must be done with Obamacare and HealthCare.gov. The foolish builder built his house on sand. When the rains came, and the rivers rose, and the winds blew, the house fell with a great crash. Matthew 7:24-29.
Obamacare and HealthCare.gov have been rendered useless by the massive corruption that began with the Commander in Chief, trickled down through his Chief Technology Officer, flowed through his staff, cabinet, and agencies; it compromised courts and media, and threatens to destabilize American democracy itself. The President's response to this demand for recusal will be telling.
They have already fixed the website. Running smoothly now.
ReplyDeleteDale's comment illustrates why these scoundrels are getting away with their criminality. The average person tends to believe what they are told when they are looking at a process like software that they do not fundamentally understand. This is no different than a mechanical novice taking his car to a garage and being handed a huge bill and his keys with assurances that everything is fixed. Two hours later, the engine stops running because the mechanic was lying. The only difference is the cleverness of the explanations coming out of the Administration. Those "sophisticated" excuses are why Harvard is so expensive. The great leveler is that expensive lies are still lies.
DeleteWow! Another kool-aid drinker!
ReplyDeleteI hope they don't use the same standards you just gave when repairing boats, planes and trains. The Facebook crowd seems to think it is OK and acceptable to have substandard programs and software! The cost is 100's of times more expensive than what could have been developed in the private sector and then supposedly gets fixed in less than 30 days except for the glitches they say still exist.
3 1/2 years and $300-$500 million to develop. I wonder what the repair bill will be in a 80% running program and they are not yet finished!
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Experts in application and system tuning use the terms: "hogs, frogs, and dogs" to describe different types of transactions. Hogs use up a lot of system resources. Frogs are efficient applications that run quickly and smoothly. Dogs are applications that need a lot of work for provide proper functionality and then run efficiently. To get to an 80% level of efficiency for the functions the Administration has announced, it looks like the team worked on the hogs and frogs. The dogs need to be triaged for a later effort. They also added major "horsepower" in hardware to help the applications run faster.
ReplyDeleteHowever, this does not even address the serious privacy and security issues embedded in these systems.
And don't be fooled by proclamations of success. It's like the baseball team announcing victory after 80% of the innings were played (22 of the 27 outs had been achieved---still leaving another 5 outs to go.) And we know what can happen in the last two innings of a game.
False promises were made and continue to be made. The cover ups will continue, too. It looks like the hogs, frogs, and dogs have been joined by skunks.
David London you supposedly have all of these emails showing the Facebook fraud. Why in the works haven't you posted them if they actually exist?
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