The Murder of Kevin Flanagan at Bank of America Concord Campus
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Showing posts with label Suicides. Show all posts
Connecting Too Many Incidents with an indeliable link to to Cerberus Capital to Albertsons to Safeway CEO Steve whose former mistress nearly died but ended up with a colostomy. I know because I nearly died the same way
Connecting Too Many Incidents
The Dubious Phone Call and Time Wasting Project
The reality of these cases is they lead to attorneys, legal cases, expertise that is patentable, private equity leading to Albertsons and one particular soldier killed in Balad in 2007. My opinions just got much stronger.My story is about witness murders, private equity, mergers and acquisitions linked back to the Matter of Bennett v. Southern Pacific lost in 1989. It was a winnable case as long the witnesses testified.
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The Sun Micro Stories
Pfc Joseph Behiel died in the Contra Costa County Jail a/k/a Martinez Death Facility. PeteBennett.net was once Authentic Technologies located at 1136 Saranap Ave Walnut Creek was poised to retain Attorney Art Beheil of Silicon Edge. He lost his son, I nearly lost my life in the same jail
Oracle 9/11 a distant patriot?
Surreal
Salesforce buys Exact Target and Ian Murdock dies?
Former Sun Microsytems programmer
The tragic untimely death of Ian Murdock could have been predicted based on the deaths of Kevin Flanagan, Darian Sable, Brandon Marshall, Patent Attorney James Gilliand and the death of Joseph Beheil son of Patent Attorney Art Beheil.
The Murder of US Attorney - The other 9/11 Murder
Doc's then 9/11, then Bennett, then Wales
Connecting Software Develper Bennett to the Thomas C. Wales murder to the NIMDA Virus (Computer Worm), The Patch Failures at Microsoft and McAfee Firewall at SBC Global on 9/18/2001 The Dubious Phone Call and Time Wasting Project The folks at TPG will have to answer...
The Doc's Pharmacy Murder Conspiracy
Why did Safeway hire
The Doc's Pharmacy Murder Case The Deliberately Overlooked Local Connections to the Anthrax Investigation. Steve Burd was CEO in charge of Safeway Stores How does a Pharmacist get hired while simultaneously involved in Quasi Murder Investigation to be hired at the...
San Francisco FBI
The West Coast Bomb School
Cypress Security
Words from the CEO
Posted by the person you nearly
Words from the CEO
Obit: Natalie Nezera and Walnut Creek Murders
Update: Woman Identified In Apparent Suicide Leap Onto Walnut Creek Freeway
Authorities identified the woman as Natalie Nereza, a transgender from Concord
OBIT: Army Spc. James J. Coon, 22, Walnut Creek; killed by a sniper @dod @cia @army @marines
Army Spc. James J. Coon, 22, Walnut Creek; killed by a sniper
April 15, 2007|John M. Glionna | Times Staff Writer
James J. Coon went to war as a way to better his life, hoping to use his soldier's pay to one day buy a house.
SPC James Coon
Step Mom worked at Nordstrom
Was my tailor
Knows my sons and ex
Stracks, Driscolls and Marshalls
ALL KNOWN TO BENNETT
Once in Iraq, he was recognized for his heroism after he jumped from his Humvee in an effort to save two fellow soldiers seriously injured in a roadside bomb explosion.
Then, his family says, a sniper's bullet took his life.
The 22-year-old Army specialist from the San Francisco Bay Area city of Walnut Creek was killed April 4 while on patrol in Balad, north of Baghdad.
The Department of Defense initially listed his cause of death as a roadside bomb explosion. But a co lonel in Coon's unit called the family last week from Iraq to explain that their son had been shot in the head.
Coon's body was returned to his family Thursday.
The soldier's father, Jim, described his son as an outgoing youth who loved hip-hop music and dancing, and excelled in football and darts. Coon had won a national steel-tip dart championship in 2001 and traveled to England as a 16-year-old to represent the United States. He finished fifth.
At 6 feet 6, with a size 14 1/2 shoe, Coon also was a punter on his high school and college football teams. His real love, his father said, was popping wheelies on his motorcycle.
"He was a good athlete as tall as he was," his father said. "He could ride his motorcycle doing a wheelie from one county to the next, even using one hand.
"He was a happy-go-lucky and free-spirited kid without a care in the world. He made friends very easily. It was uncanny how easily he could do that."
Pat Lickiss, principal of Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek, said Coon was a "kid who always had a smile on his face. He was a really nice young man. And you can't say that about all kids these days. But you can about James."
Coon, who grew up in Walnut Creek, was practical about his future, his father said. He worked as a supermarket clerk and in a paint store and lawnmower shop. He figured that the military would be a good way to save enough money to buy his own home some day.
He enlisted in September 2005, right after his 21st birthday, and spent six months in Iraq before he was killed.
Jim Coon said he kept in regular touch with his son through e-mails, which the young soldier used to express his growing frustration with the war effort. In one e-mail, the soldier wrote about fighting what he called an unseen enemy: "Dad, I feel like we're fighting ghosts. There's nobody out here to fight."
His father offered support. "James didn't like what was going on in Iraq," he said. "He didn't want to be there. But he was a dedicated soldier who did what he was told."
Last month, Coon attempted a rescue near Baghdad. He was working as a gunner in the hatch of a Humvee on patrol when his unit was struck by a roadside bomb, his father said.
When several soldiers went to investigate, a second bomb detonated, wounding half a dozen men. "He heard them screaming for help, so James told his driver to hold his gun, and he went out, without cover, to help his fellow buddies," his father said. "One guy was a medic, the other a sergeant. He put tourniquets on them. Both later died."
Coon was nominated for a Bronze Star but couldn't understand the honor, his father said. "He said, 'Dad, they're calling me a hero, but all I did was what I thought was right. A lot of kids would have done the same thing.' "
Coon said he had lost his buddies, and that hurt. "He told me, 'The only good thing I had out of this whole thing was taken from me when both those guys passed away,' " his father said.
In a subsequent e-mail to his family, Coon wrote of a lingering depression. "I wanna come home so bad. I don't wanna play Army anymore," he wrote.
Jim Coon said he saw his son in February during a military leave. He will remember him as a big, strapping boy who had yet to figure out a direction in life.
"In his last e-mail, he said he'd die for his brothers, as he called them," his father said. "My boy didn't go down without a fight."
He said that he recently read an entry on his son's MySpace.com website in which he wrote: "My dad is for sure my hero. He is also my best friend."
Said his father: "When I saw that, it tore me up."
In addition to his father, Coon is survived by his stepmother, Marie Coon; two half sisters, Roxanna Coon and Samantha Lares; and his grandparents, Jack and Janet Stahl of Fairfield, Calif.
john.glionna@latimes.com
War casualties
Total U.S. deaths*:
* In and around Iraq**: 3,292
* In and around Afghanistan***: 313
* Other locations***: 61
Source: Department of Defense* Includes military and Department of Defense-employed civilian personnel killed in action and in nonhostile circumstances
**As of Friday
***As of April 7
Salesforce Board Of Directors
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Board of directors
The Salesforce board of directors is an exceptional group of individuals who have helped, advised, and established many of the premier companies of Silicon Valley.
The current board of directors at Salesforce is comprised of:
Marc Benioff
Marc Benioff is chairman and CEO of Salesforce. One of the pioneers of cloud computing, Benioff founded the company in 1999 with a vision to create an on-demand, information management service to replace traditional enterprise software technology. Under his leadership, Salesforce has grown from a groundbreaking idea into the fastest growing top ten software company in the world and the largest customer relationship management (CRM) company.
Salesforce’s mobile, social and connected cloud technologies help companies create deeper, more meaningful connections with their customers. For its revolutionary approach, Salesforce has been named the World’s Most Innovative Company four years in a row by Forbes Magazine. Fortune Magazine named Salesforce as the World’s Most Admired Company in the software industry two years in a row, and ranked the company #7 among the World’s Best Places to Work.
Benioff has been widely recognized for his visionary leadership and pioneering innovation. He was named Businessperson of the Year by Fortune readers, one of the Best CEOs in the World by Barron’s, and he received The Economist’s Innovation Award. He served as co-chairman of the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee from 2003–2005.
Throughout his career, Benioff has evangelized a new model of integrated corporate philanthropy. In 2000, he launched the Salesforce Foundation and established the “1-1-1 model,” whereby the company contributes one percent of product, one percent of equity, and one percent of employee hours back to the communities it serves globally. Today, the Foundation has inspired other leading corporations to adopt the 1-1-1 model. Benioff has focused his personal philanthropy on advancing children’s health care through UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals.
Benioff is a 35-year veteran of the software industry. Prior to launching Salesforce, he spent 13 years at Oracle Corporation. He founded his first company, Liberty Software, which created video games, at the age of 15. He also worked as an assembly language programmer in Apple Computer’s Macintosh Division during his college years. Benioff received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in 1986 and an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 2014 from the University of Southern California.
He is the author of three books, including the national best-seller, Behind the Cloud.
Keith Block
As Vice Chairman, a member of the Board of Directors and President of Salesforce, Keith Block leads the company’s Distribution Organization, which includes global sales, alliances and channels, customer support, and consulting services. With a focus on customer transformation and building long-term relationships, Block has managed world-class sales, consulting and engineering teams for nearly 30 years.
At Salesforce, he is tasked with driving the company’s next decade of growth by expanding Salesforce’s high-performing sales organization, growing its market-leading alliances and channels program, extending the company further into international markets, and applying Salesforce’s award-winning platform to key industries, such as healthcare, financial services, retail, manufacturing and more.
Prior to joining Salesforce, Block served as Oracle’s executive vice president of North America Sales and Consulting, leading an 11,000-person team and building a multi-billion dollar sales business unit that achieved record revenue and margin during his tenure. He began his career at Booz Allen Hamilton as a senior consultant to Air Force executives.
Block currently serves on Salesforce’s Board of Directors, the Board of Trustees at the Concord Museum, the Advisory Board at Carnegie-Mellon University Heinz Graduate School, the President’s Advisory Council and Board of Trustees for Carnegie Mellon University.
Block holds an Master’s of Science degree in Management and Policy Analysis and a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Information Systems from Carnegie-Mellon University
Craig Conway
Craig Conway has enjoyed one of the most distinguished and successful careers in the technology industry. He has been recognized as one of the Top 25 Managers by BusinessWeek, one of the Ten Most Influential People In High Technology by , and one of the Fifty Most Powerful People in Networking by NetworkWorld.
As president and chief executive officer, Conway has led several technology companies to success including most recently, PeopleSoft. Conway joined PeopleSoft in 1999 and began one of the most dramatic turnarounds in the technology industry. His vision to develop the industry's first pure Internet architecture, determination to expand into new products and markets, and intense focus on execution drove PeopleSoft to become the world's second-largest provider of business software. In 2002 Fortune magazine named PeopleSoft the Second Most Admired Company, and Forbes magazine named PeopleSoft one of Five Overachieving Companies.
On June 2, 2003, Conway announced the acquisition of JD Edwards, making PeopleSoft a $2.9 billion company with 12,000 customers in 150 countries and starting a wave of industry consolidation. Four days later PeopleSoft itself became a takeover target by Oracle, and so began the longest hostile takeover attempt in history. Eighteen months later PeopleSoft was sold for $10.3 billion, almost $4 billion more than Oracle's initial offer and $7 billion more than the value of the company when Conway took over as CEO.
Conway has also served as president and CEO of TGV Software and One Touch Systems. He has also held executive management positions at a variety of leading technology companies including executive vice president at Oracle.
Alan Hassenfeld
Alan Hassenfeld is a director of Hasbro, a worldwide leader in children's and family leisure time entertainment with $2.9 billion in revenues and an impressive blue-chip portfolio of familiar and popular brand names such as PLAYSKOOL, TONKA, MILTON BRADLEY, and PARKER BROTHERS. Hassenfeld began his career at Hasbro in 1970. He was appointed vice president of marketing and sales in 1978, became the president of the company in 1984, and received the titles of chairman and CEO in 1989. In May 2003, he passed on the responsibilities of CEO in order to fully concentrate on his position as chairman and served as chairman until February 2008. Hassenfeld sits on the board of the Salesforce Foundation as well as Hasbro's two philanthropic divisions, the Hasbro Charitable Trust and the Hasbro Children's Foundation. He is the former chairman of the Right Now! Coalition and Admiral of Rhode Island Commodores (a governor-appointed business advisory group). Hassenfeld is the recipient of the Honorary Doctor of Humanities Award from Bryant College and the Honorary Doctor of Business degree from Roger Williams University and Johnson and Wales University.
Colin Powell
General Colin Powell is a retired four star general and served for 35 years in the United States Army. He has served as U.S. National Security Advisor, Commander of the U.S. Army Forces Command, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and he was the 65th Secretary of State of the United States. He is the recipient of numerous U.S. military awards as well as two Presidential Medals of Freedom. General Powell is a strategic limited partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations. General Powell is the Chair of the Board of Visitors of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at his alma mater, the City College of New York. The Powell School was inaugurated May of 2013 and stands alongside CCNY’s other premiere named schools. He is the Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the America’s Promise Alliance, dedicated to forging a strong and effective partnership alliance committed to seeing that children have the fundamental resources they need to succeed.
Sanford Robertson
Sanford Robertson pioneered the creation of West Coast technology banking as an industry in the late 1960s and has remained one of the industry's most renowned participants. He served as vice president and director at Smith Barney before founding a firm that later became Montgomery Securities. In 1978, he founded Robertson, Stephens & Co, one of the most significant underwriters of IPOs, mergers, and acquisitions. After selling the company in 1998, he founded Francisco Partners, the world's largest technology-focused private equity fund. Robertson has had significant financing involvement in over 500 growth technology companies, including 3Com (NASDAQ: COMS), America Online (NYSE: AOL), Applied Materials (NASDAQ: AMAT), Ascend, Dell Computer (NASDAQ: DELL), E*Trade (NYSE: ET), Siebel, and Sun (NASDAQ: SUNW). He serves on the boards of Dolby Laboratories, Pain Therapeutics (NASDAQ: PTIE), and the Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving, as well as on the President's Board at the University of Michigan.
John V. Roos
John Roos is a former United States Ambassador to Japan and a former technology lawyer. Before accepting the ambassadorship from President Barack Obama, Roos was the CEO of Silicon Valley-based law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
Roos served as the U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 2009 to 2013, a historic period in U.S.-Japan relations where he played a key role in managing the relationship through major transitions of government. Roos led the American mission to support Japan's response to the devastating 9.0 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis on March 11, 2011. In October 2011, citing his tireless and effective leadership after March 11, the Department of State awarded Roos the prestigious Sue E. Cobb 2011 Award for Exemplary Diplomatic Service.
Prior to his ambassadorship, Roos served as Chief Executive Officer and Senior Partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the leading law firm in the U.S. in the representation of technology, life sciences, and emerging growth companies. There he helped lead his firm during the waves of innovation in Silicon Valley, from the growth of software and communications, to the Internet Age, to the emergence of biotechnology, clean technology and renewable energy, to the social media revolution.
Roos grew up in San Francisco and attended Stanford University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Honors and Distinction, and Stanford Law School, earning his Juris Doctor in 1980, achieving Order of the Coif. Throughout his career, Roos has been active in public service, serving on a public school board in California from 1991 to 1999. Prior to becoming Ambassador to Japan, Roos served on the Stanford School of Education Dean's Advisory Board and on the Law School Dean's Advisory Council. He was elected to membership in the Stanford Associates for his long-standing volunteer service to the University.
The current board of directors at Salesforce is comprised of:
- Marc Benioff, Chairman & CEO
- Keith Block, Vice Chairman and President
- Craig Conway, Former CEO, PeopleSoft
- Alan Hassenfeld, Director, Hasbro, Inc.
- Colin Powell, General, Former U.S. Secretary of State, Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Sanford Robertson, Principal, Francisco Partners
- John V. Roos, Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan
- Larry Tomlinson, Former Senior Vice President, Treasurer, Hewlett-Packard
- Robin L. Washington, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Gilead Sciences Inc.
- Maynard Webb, Chairman, Yahoo! Inc.
- Susan Wojcicki, CEO, YouTube
Marc Benioff
Chairman & CEO
Salesforce’s mobile, social and connected cloud technologies help companies create deeper, more meaningful connections with their customers. For its revolutionary approach, Salesforce has been named the World’s Most Innovative Company four years in a row by Forbes Magazine. Fortune Magazine named Salesforce as the World’s Most Admired Company in the software industry two years in a row, and ranked the company #7 among the World’s Best Places to Work.
Benioff has been widely recognized for his visionary leadership and pioneering innovation. He was named Businessperson of the Year by Fortune readers, one of the Best CEOs in the World by Barron’s, and he received The Economist’s Innovation Award. He served as co-chairman of the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee from 2003–2005.
Throughout his career, Benioff has evangelized a new model of integrated corporate philanthropy. In 2000, he launched the Salesforce Foundation and established the “1-1-1 model,” whereby the company contributes one percent of product, one percent of equity, and one percent of employee hours back to the communities it serves globally. Today, the Foundation has inspired other leading corporations to adopt the 1-1-1 model. Benioff has focused his personal philanthropy on advancing children’s health care through UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals.
Benioff is a 35-year veteran of the software industry. Prior to launching Salesforce, he spent 13 years at Oracle Corporation. He founded his first company, Liberty Software, which created video games, at the age of 15. He also worked as an assembly language programmer in Apple Computer’s Macintosh Division during his college years. Benioff received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in 1986 and an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 2014 from the University of Southern California.
He is the author of three books, including the national best-seller, Behind the Cloud.
Keith Block
Vice Chairman and President
At Salesforce, he is tasked with driving the company’s next decade of growth by expanding Salesforce’s high-performing sales organization, growing its market-leading alliances and channels program, extending the company further into international markets, and applying Salesforce’s award-winning platform to key industries, such as healthcare, financial services, retail, manufacturing and more.
Prior to joining Salesforce, Block served as Oracle’s executive vice president of North America Sales and Consulting, leading an 11,000-person team and building a multi-billion dollar sales business unit that achieved record revenue and margin during his tenure. He began his career at Booz Allen Hamilton as a senior consultant to Air Force executives.
Block currently serves on Salesforce’s Board of Directors, the Board of Trustees at the Concord Museum, the Advisory Board at Carnegie-Mellon University Heinz Graduate School, the President’s Advisory Council and Board of Trustees for Carnegie Mellon University.
Block holds an Master’s of Science degree in Management and Policy Analysis and a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Information Systems from Carnegie-Mellon University
Craig Conway
Former CEO, PeopleSoft
As president and chief executive officer, Conway has led several technology companies to success including most recently, PeopleSoft. Conway joined PeopleSoft in 1999 and began one of the most dramatic turnarounds in the technology industry. His vision to develop the industry's first pure Internet architecture, determination to expand into new products and markets, and intense focus on execution drove PeopleSoft to become the world's second-largest provider of business software. In 2002 Fortune magazine named PeopleSoft the Second Most Admired Company, and Forbes magazine named PeopleSoft one of Five Overachieving Companies.
On June 2, 2003, Conway announced the acquisition of JD Edwards, making PeopleSoft a $2.9 billion company with 12,000 customers in 150 countries and starting a wave of industry consolidation. Four days later PeopleSoft itself became a takeover target by Oracle, and so began the longest hostile takeover attempt in history. Eighteen months later PeopleSoft was sold for $10.3 billion, almost $4 billion more than Oracle's initial offer and $7 billion more than the value of the company when Conway took over as CEO.
Conway has also served as president and CEO of TGV Software and One Touch Systems. He has also held executive management positions at a variety of leading technology companies including executive vice president at Oracle.
Alan Hassenfeld
Director, Hasbro, Inc.
Colin Powell
General, Former U.S. Secretary of State, Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Sanford Robertson
Principal, Francisco Partners
John V. Roos
Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan
Roos served as the U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 2009 to 2013, a historic period in U.S.-Japan relations where he played a key role in managing the relationship through major transitions of government. Roos led the American mission to support Japan's response to the devastating 9.0 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis on March 11, 2011. In October 2011, citing his tireless and effective leadership after March 11, the Department of State awarded Roos the prestigious Sue E. Cobb 2011 Award for Exemplary Diplomatic Service.
Prior to his ambassadorship, Roos served as Chief Executive Officer and Senior Partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the leading law firm in the U.S. in the representation of technology, life sciences, and emerging growth companies. There he helped lead his firm during the waves of innovation in Silicon Valley, from the growth of software and communications, to the Internet Age, to the emergence of biotechnology, clean technology and renewable energy, to the social media revolution.
Roos grew up in San Francisco and attended Stanford University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Honors and Distinction, and Stanford Law School, earning his Juris Doctor in 1980, achieving Order of the Coif. Throughout his career, Roos has been active in public service, serving on a public school board in California from 1991 to 1999. Prior to becoming Ambassador to Japan, Roos served on the Stanford School of Education Dean's Advisory Board and on the Law School Dean's Advisory Council. He was elected to membership in the Stanford Associates for his long-standing volunteer service to the University.
See Keithley v. Realtor.com, Homestore
Larry Tomlinson
Former Senior Vice President and Treasurer, Hewlett-Packard
With over 35 years of global financial and administrative experience in a Fortune 15 corporation, Larry Tomlinson has substantial expertise in focusing management on achieving revenue and margin objectives during periods of both double-digit and slow growth. Since beginning his career at Hewlett-Packard in 1965, Tomlinson has held management and executive positions in multiple domestic and international divisions with responsibilities spanning controllership, tax, treasury, order fulfillment, information technology, distribution, logistics, and financial strategic alliances. He formerly served as senior vice president and treasurer for Hewlett-Packard. Tomlinson currently serves as a director of Coherent.
See the story where the family next to one of your former employee was slaughtered by experts as told from a Walnut Creek resident whose friend and daughter were brutally murdered in 2005. Sadly the brother was in charge of CIA detention centers under the Command of General Petraeus
Robin L. Washington
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Gilead Sciences Inc.
Washington previously served on the Board of Directors of Tektronix, Inc. (acquired by Danaher), the Board of Directors of MIPS Technologies Inc. (acquired by Imagination), and currently is a member of the Board of Directors of Honeywell, the Board of Directors of the San Jose Children's Discovery Museum and the Board of Visitors, Graziadio School of Business and Management, Pepperdine University.
Washington is a certified public accountant and holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Michigan and a M.B.A. from Pepperdine University.
Maynard Webb
Chairman, Yahoo! Inc.
Prior to joining eBay, Webb was senior vice president and chief information officer at Gateway, where he contributed to the company's rapid expansion and Internet-enabled business operations. In years prior, he has also worked at Quantum, Thomas-Conrad Corporation, Bay Networks, and IBM. Webb is the founder of the Webb Investment Network, an early-stage venture capital firm in Los Gatos, Calif., and co-founder of Everwise, a cloud-based mentoring program.
Webb received a bachelor's degree from Florida Atlantic University.
See the story where the family next to one of your former employee was slaughtered by experts as told from a Walnut Creek resident whose friend and daughter were brutally murdered in 2005. Sadly the brother was in charge of CIA detention centers under the Command of General Petraeus
Susan Wojcicki
CEO, YouTube
Prior to joining YouTube in February 2014, Wojcicki was senior vice president of Advertising & Commerce at Google, where she oversaw the design and engineering of AdWords, AdSense, DoubleClick, and Google Analytics. She joined Google in 1999 as the company's first marketing manager and led the initial development of several key consumer products, including Google Images and Google Books. In 2002, Wojcicki began working on Google’s advertising products and over the next 12 years she led teams that helped define the vision and direction of Google’s monetization platforms.
Wojcicki graduated with honors from Harvard University, holds a master's in Economics from University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MBA from UCLA.
See far to many visits to local hospitals where Pete Bennett has had the shit kicked out of him. Bennett was involved in the hostile takeover of PeopleSoft and his family, friends and customers end up very dead.
Sheriff details investigation of Marshall murder-suicide
Sheriff details investigation of Marshall murder-suicide
By Sean Janssen, The Union Democrat March 29, 2013 02:44 pm
Philip Marshall acted alone in killing his two teenage children, a pet Shih Tzu and himself after a history of mental illness and a messy split with the children’s mother, according to a six-page report released Friday afternoon by the Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office.
The report details the investigation that took place after the bodies of all three family members were discovered Feb. 2 at the Marshall’s Forest Meadows home.
The Sheriff’s Office investigation concluded Marshall shot his son Alex, 17, and daughter Macaila, 14, as they slept on the living room couch before turning tahe 9mm Glock semiautomatic handgun he purchased in 2011 in Turlock on himself.
Toxicology test results showed both children had moderate levels of alcohol in their system at the time of their deaths, with Macaila registering a .05 blood-alcohol content and Alex a .03. In addition, Macaila had apparently taken diphenhydrameine, an over-the-counter antihistamine and sleep aid, commonly sold as Benadryl.
Philip Marshall’s toxicology screen showed painkillers hydrocodone and morphine in his blood as well as hydroxybupropion, an antidepressant.
Investigators looked at Marshall’s medical records and determined he had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
A lengthy history of run-ins with wife Sean Plummer, the children’s mother, is documented dating back to 2008, when she began divorce proceedings, only to later withdraw the petition and reinstate it in October 2012.
On Nov. 11, 2008, Plummer’s sister, Erin Chamberlain, then a Murphys resident, told police Marshall threatened Plummer she “will not see December.” Eleven days later, Chamberlain said she felt threatened “for the safety of her children” as Marshall repeatedly drove past her home. Phone messages Marshall left at Chamberlain’s home in December included statements that "if you don’t call me, mom is going to have problems, we don’t want this,” “Sean, you are going to get what's coming to you" and "Macaila, this is daddy. We are going to have lunch. We need to talk right now. If not, something is going to happen.” On Dec. 7, the report states Marshall violated an emergency protection order.
On Jan. 27, 2013, the report stated Marshall purchased a distinctive type of Fiocchi 9mm ammo from Big 5 Sporting Goods in Sonora, confirmed by a review of surveillance video at the store. The ammunition company later donated some of the same ammunition for a ballistics test at Marshall’s home investigators used to conclude it was possible for the shots to be fired without neighbors hearing them.
"During the multiple tests the detectives found that it took an average of a total of two seconds to shoot each victim, demonstrating that it was possible to shoot both children prior to one of them waking up,” the report stated. The home had been unlocked with no signs of forced entry when investigators arrived and valuables remained in plain sight, according to the report. A safe was left open with a handwritten note on a medical marijuana recommendation card that read “Hi Sean!”
“There was no evidence to support a theory that anyone else could have committed this crime, or that any other persons were present at the time of the shootings. Macaila and Alex Marshall both appeared to be sleeping at the time they were shot, indicating no signs of a struggle with a possible intruder. There was no evidence of a struggle with Phillip Marshall, and no signs of forced entry into the home,” the report concluded. “Various items of value were still present inside the home, and no evidence of any additional weapons was found.
Lastly, there was no evidence that Phillip Marshall or his children were moved or repositioned after the shooting, which would indicate an altered crime scene. Based on the final findings of the investigators, evidence shows that Philip Marshall, and not an outside fourth person, shot and killed Macaila, Alex, the family dog, and then himself. To conclude, it is determined that this case was a double murder-suicide."
A detailed report on the investigation’s conclusions will appear in Monday’s edition of The Union Democrat.
Ex-CalPERS official Villalobos commits suicide
Two former CalPERS officials indicted on fraud charges
Marc Lifsher, Los Angeles Times
SACRAMENTO — Three years after a major influence-peddling scandal rocked California and the nation's largest public pension fund, a federal grand jury indicted two former top officials on fraud, conspiracy and obstruction charges.
The indictment, unsealed Monday in San Francisco, names as defendants Federico Buenrostro Jr. of Sacramento, a former chief executive of the California Public Employees' Retirement System, and Alfred J.R. Villalobos of Reno, Nev., a former CalPERS board member and one-time deputy Los Angeles mayor.
The charges are the culmination of a far-reaching investigation into the way the agency invested its money and how the former insider, Villalobos, collected tens of millions of dollars from Wall Street firms for steering CalPERS business their way.
Neither man could be reached for comment, but they have consistently denied any wrongdoing in connection with their CalPERS work. Villalobos' attorney said his client was innocent and would fight the charges.
The agency invests $255 billion of employee and governmental contributions to provide retirement benefits for more than 1.6 million public employees, retirees and their families.
Once a highly regarded organization with an international reputation for smart, ethical investing, CalPERS now must wrangle with questions about commissions paid to the little-known intermediaries and their relationships with fund officials.
Steep investment losses during the recent recession also tarnished the fund. Since then, the CalPERS board has conducted detailed investigations, ordered major changes in the way it operates and improved its financial performance.
CalPERS President Rob Feckner called the long-expected federal indictments "another step in the road to justice."
Pension fund officials hailed the action as an affirmation that the fund moved forcefully to clean up its relations with intermediaries, such as Villalobos, who collected exorbitant fees from private equity investment funds after they signed lucrative contracts with CalPERS.
The scandal at CalPERS and subsequent investigations and the federal indictment should be a warning to public pension funds across the country that they need to root out any potential or actual corruption, said Edward Siedle, a forensic expert specializing in pension funds.
"What the Department of Justice is doing is sending a shot across the bow," he said, "that these matters are taken seriously and people will prosecute."
Pension fund officials credited their own, in-house 2011 review with providing significant findings that helped prosecutors make progress toward indictments.
At the same time, critics have continued to pummel CalPERS and other large government-worker pension funds for being dangerously underfunded and providing overly generous retirement and health benefits. Those costs unfairly burden taxpayers, most of whom have no access to similar largesse, critics say.
At the center of the investigation was the role of placement agents, the middlemen or intermediaries hired by private equity firms and other financial institutions to win CalPERS business. The investigation came during a rough financial stretch for CalPERS. Its investment portfolio value had plummeted nearly $100 billion, to $169 billion, during the recession.
Since then, the Legislature approved a new law requiring placement agents to be registered as lobbyists, and CalPERS has enacted stringent new policies on ethics, governance, conflicts of interest, and board gifts and travel.
"Given its many reforms, CalPERS is a better, stronger and more transparent pension system than ever," said Philip Khinda, a Washington, D.C., lawyer, who conducted the special review.
The indictment charged Villalobos with conspiracy to defraud the United States, engaging in a false scheme against the United States and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. Buenrostro was accused of the same crimes, plus making a false statement to the United States and obstruction of justice.
The maximum penalty for the mail and wire fraud is 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000 or twice the amount of loss, whichever is greater. The other charges carry five-year maximum prison terms and fines similar to the mail and wire fraud charges.
Villalobos, 69, and Buenrostro, 64, were longtime friends. The indictment set out a series of transactions in 2007 and 2008 between the two men while Buenrostro was still running CalPERS.
At the time, Villalobos was working for the New York-based private equity firm Apollo Global Management as a placement agent to help it get CalPERS business.
According to the indictment, the two men conspired to commit fraud by creating and sending phony documents. These disclosures were needed to comply with a requirement from Apollo for proof that CalPERS officials knew Villalobos was being paid large amounts of money to secure $3 billion in CalPERS business.
Buenrostro then retired from CalPERS and went to work for Villalobos' Nevada firm, ARVCO Capital Research, shortly after Apollo made its last commission payment to Villalobos.
On Monday, both men appeared with their lawyers in federal court in San Francisco, and each was released on $500,000 bail. Later, Buenrostro's lawyer, William Kimball, declined to comment. Villalobos' attorney, Donald Etra, said his client "denies all charges" and will vigorously defend himself.
The two defendants also face civil lawsuits brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the California attorney general's office.
The Justice Department said Monday that the federal indictment capped a 2 1/2 year probe that was assisted by the U.S. Postal Service, FBI, SEC and Secret Service.
In a statement, Apollo said it was troubled by the charges against Villalobos and Buenrostro and "was not aware of any misconduct engaged in by Mr. Villalobos during the time he worked with Apollo." Apollo stressed that it had "cooperated fully with all regulatory agencies investigating this matter and will continue to do so."
Apollo paid Villalobos $14 million for CalPERS deals mentioned in the indictment, court papers said.
In all, Villalobos and his companies got a total of $48 million from Apollo from 2005 to 2009, according to an SEC filing in April of last year. He also received an additional $12 million in placement fees from other investment funds that managed CalPERS money.
Times staff writer Andrew Tangel in New York contributed to this story
Concord city attorney remembered as 'one of the good guys'
Concord city attorney remembered as 'one of the good guys'
By Lisa P. White lwhite@bayareanewsgroup.com
LAFAYETTE
-- Concord City Attorney Mark Coon's funeral Monday at St. Perpetua
Catholic Church drew a large crowd of family, friends and colleagues who
recalled him as a kind, humble man who deeply loved his family.
Coon, 55, died last week in an apparent suicide. The shock of his sudden death reverberated far beyond Concord, touching the exclusive club of city attorneys and the larger Bay Area legal community.
The funeral Mass opened with a slideshow of snapshots of Coon as a youngster, on his wedding day, cradling his newborn children and with his family.
In his welcoming remarks, Albany City Attorney
Craig Labadie recalled that Coon was unfailingly polite and courteous,
possessed a keen intellect, and embodied the concept of public service
by trying to do the best for his clients in city government and
residents while maintaining high ethical standards. While he excelled in
his job, Labadie said, "his real source of happiness was his family."
"I will always remember him as the intelligent, kindhearted, thoughtful person that he was," Labadie said.
Coon was born in New Zealand and spent his early childhood in England. He graduated from UCLA and earned a law degree from UC Hastings College of the Law in 1986. Before joining Concord, Coon worked at the law firms Carroll, Burdick & McDonough and Archer McComas & Lageson in Walnut Creek, where he met his wife, June Bashant. The couple has two children, Nathan, 13, and Lauren, 11.
Coon was hired in 2002 as Concord deputy city attorney. He served as assistant city attorney and senior assistant city attorney before being promoted to city attorney in 2012, replacing Labadie.
The Rev. John Kater said there are two sides to being human -- rejoicing in the great adventure of life and being deeply moved by its hardships.
"Mark embraced the challenge of being human in all its complexity," Kater said.
Although several friends said Coon believed he was fortunate to have built a life with Bashant, she recalled a colleague telling her a few weeks earlier how lucky she was to be married to Coon.
"I was lucky," a tearful Bashant told the gathered mourners. "For 17 years, I had Mark by my side."
Coon was a voracious reader who loved the outdoors and recognized beauty in the small things in life -- from the turning leaves at their Walnut Creek home to the vibrant fish he watched while snorkeling to the breathtaking sunsets at the beach in Carmel, she said. His integrity and character were unimpeachable, Bashant said.
The couple's children were a source of great pride for her husband and are his wonderful legacy, Bashant said. Coon, she added, predicted that Nathan's intelligence would one day land him the top job at Apple and that Lauren would compete at the 2020 summer Olympics as a member of the U.S. gymnastics team.
"They were truly the bright stars in the sky, along with the UCLA Bruins," she said, drawing chuckles from an otherwise somber crowd.
Steve Welch was part of a group of young guys, including Coon, who took hiking and backpacking trips to Yosemite and the Grand Canyon. Welch said he will remember his friend of more than two decades as Coon appeared in a photo from one of those trips, flashing a wide grin at the top of Half Dome.
"He was honest, he was fair, he never bent the rules, he never cut corners," said Welch, an attorney. "He was one of the good guys." Kevin Wong, who developed a close friendship with Coon after their sons started kindergarten at Parkmead Elementary School in Walnut Creek, said he'll miss Coon's wisdom, dry sense of humor and smile that could light up a room.
"Thank you for making me part of your life," said Wong, his voice dissolving into tears. "It's been an honor to be your friend. Please rest in peace."
Lisa P. White covers Concord and Pleasant Hill. Contact her at 925-943-8011. Follow her at Twitter.com/lisa_p_white.
LAFAYETTE
-- Concord City Attorney Mark Coon's funeral Monday at St. Perpetua
Catholic Church drew a large crowd of family, friends and colleagues who
recalled him as a kind, humble man who deeply loved his family.Coon, 55, died last week in an apparent suicide. The shock of his sudden death reverberated far beyond Concord, touching the exclusive club of city attorneys and the larger Bay Area legal community.
The funeral Mass opened with a slideshow of snapshots of Coon as a youngster, on his wedding day, cradling his newborn children and with his family.
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"I will always remember him as the intelligent, kindhearted, thoughtful person that he was," Labadie said.
Coon was born in New Zealand and spent his early childhood in England. He graduated from UCLA and earned a law degree from UC Hastings College of the Law in 1986. Before joining Concord, Coon worked at the law firms Carroll, Burdick & McDonough and Archer McComas & Lageson in Walnut Creek, where he met his wife, June Bashant. The couple has two children, Nathan, 13, and Lauren, 11.
Coon was hired in 2002 as Concord deputy city attorney. He served as assistant city attorney and senior assistant city attorney before being promoted to city attorney in 2012, replacing Labadie.
The Rev. John Kater said there are two sides to being human -- rejoicing in the great adventure of life and being deeply moved by its hardships.
"Mark embraced the challenge of being human in all its complexity," Kater said.
Although several friends said Coon believed he was fortunate to have built a life with Bashant, she recalled a colleague telling her a few weeks earlier how lucky she was to be married to Coon.
"I was lucky," a tearful Bashant told the gathered mourners. "For 17 years, I had Mark by my side."
Coon was a voracious reader who loved the outdoors and recognized beauty in the small things in life -- from the turning leaves at their Walnut Creek home to the vibrant fish he watched while snorkeling to the breathtaking sunsets at the beach in Carmel, she said. His integrity and character were unimpeachable, Bashant said.
The couple's children were a source of great pride for her husband and are his wonderful legacy, Bashant said. Coon, she added, predicted that Nathan's intelligence would one day land him the top job at Apple and that Lauren would compete at the 2020 summer Olympics as a member of the U.S. gymnastics team.
"They were truly the bright stars in the sky, along with the UCLA Bruins," she said, drawing chuckles from an otherwise somber crowd.
Steve Welch was part of a group of young guys, including Coon, who took hiking and backpacking trips to Yosemite and the Grand Canyon. Welch said he will remember his friend of more than two decades as Coon appeared in a photo from one of those trips, flashing a wide grin at the top of Half Dome.
"He was honest, he was fair, he never bent the rules, he never cut corners," said Welch, an attorney. "He was one of the good guys." Kevin Wong, who developed a close friendship with Coon after their sons started kindergarten at Parkmead Elementary School in Walnut Creek, said he'll miss Coon's wisdom, dry sense of humor and smile that could light up a room.
"Thank you for making me part of your life," said Wong, his voice dissolving into tears. "It's been an honor to be your friend. Please rest in peace."
Lisa P. White covers Concord and Pleasant Hill. Contact her at 925-943-8011. Follow her at Twitter.com/lisa_p_white.
