Stuff another legal action, PUNkS!
Proof of what I've been saying all along and it was in the red star tribune today in an article about a guy named lari who actually worked for the fucked up gov. Anyhow, the story released to the press what that he had two harddrives FULL of child pornography which he was actively downloading and looking at.
The case went to court where the fucking lying gov had to reveal that there were only about 100 naked pictures and two 'were suspected to be of girls around 15 years of age.'
WHAT A LYING BUNCH OF GOV SCUM TO START!
Then they go through evidence and the judge finally just basically tells the prosecutors to get the fuck out as the case is dismissed because they CANNOT prove who put ANYTHING on the computer or who was viewing! It could have been a hacker or a fellow scumbag employee setting him up, but there was NO EVIDENCE it was the accused.
Actually it turns out it was his 15 yr old son who likely put the picture on there along with 15 cd's worth of mp3's.
And this was a computer which was password protected and again you should heed my words and have NO protection from hackers on your computer at all and now you see why! The easier it is to say, 'I didn't do it.', the easier it is to walk away.
OH YEA, AND SHUT THE FUCK UP!
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Posted: 2003-03-09 10:16
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MnDOT official exonerated in porn case
Dan Browning, Star Tribune
Published March 8, 2003 LARI08
A senior official in the Minnesota Department of Transportation who was demoted after an internal investigation uncovered large stores of pornographic material on his two state laptop computers must be reinstated with back pay, a judge has ruled.
The employee, Adeel Lari, was cleared of all charges in a 21-page order issued Feb. 21 by Administrative Law Judge Kathleen Sheehy.
She criticized MnDOT's handling of the matter and noted that Lari and the department had stipulated the day before she heard the case that "Lari did not place the pornographic material on either of the two computers."
Lari, 56, hand-delivered a copy of the ruling to the Star Tribune on Friday. Asked how he felt, he calmly said he is "satisfied" with the outcome and holds no grudge against the current administration of MnDOT.
His attorney was more animated. "For good reason, the judge used very strong language against Mn/DOT and the shoddy and unfair investigation leading to Mr. Lari's demotion," lawyer Brian Cote wrote in a news release. "The discipline never should have happened.
"The allegations against Mr. Lari have caused him and his family indescribable suffering and humiliation. The manner in which Mn/DOT handled this case is a travesty. The public deserves much better from its government."
MnDOT's Office of Research Services, which Lari had run until his demotion to principal engineer last September, has been disbanded in a recent restructuring by Commissioner Carol Molnau. The department is looking to find Lari a comparable position to comply with the ruling, said Jeanne Aamodt, a spokeswoman. But she added that it "could be considering" its options, including an appeal.
Case history
According to Sheehy's findings, here's what happened:
Lari had been an exemplary employee for 28 years. His troubles began last June, when his MnDOT-supplied Sony laptop stopped working. He told technicians that he had allowed his 15-year-old son to download music from the Internet, which may have caused the problem. The technicians said the hard drive would need to be reformatted, and Lari said there were some personal photographs he wanted preserved if possible.
The technicians then stumbled on about 100 pornographic photographs and 14 digital movie clips, along with 15 CDs worth of music by popular young musicians.
J.P. Auer, in MnDOT's Human Resources Department, was assigned to investigate. Most of the photos were of adults. But Auer concluded that two females in about 20 photos appeared to be about 15 years old.
Lari volunteered that he had dropped off a second computer for repair, a Compaq. Some porn then was found on its hard drive, too. A search of Lari's office computer found no porn.
The laptops were turned over to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. The Ramsey County attorney's office declined to prosecute.
Lari has consistently denied downloading the pornography and speculated in an interview with Auer that some hacker had planted it there or perhaps his 15-year-old son had downloaded it. Lari would not let MnDOT interview his son, though, because he was upset that someone in the department had informed reporters of the allegations.
Because of Auer's final report, management in Human Resources and then-Deputy Commissioner Doug Weiszhaar "strongly believed that termination was the appropriate discipline." But Margo LaBau, then chief of staff, said there was no way to prove who downloaded the material and decided that a demotion would suffice.
When LaBau told Lari on Sept. 19 that he would be demoted, he told her that his son was in fact responsible. But she declined to talk with the lad, saying, "whether or not you did it is not what this discipline is about."
But Lari's demotion letter says he engaged in serious misconduct and concludes "that it is more likely than not that you placed this material on these computers." LaBau rejected the possibility that someone else had downloaded the material because Auer erroneously wrote in his report that both computers were protected with passwords.
The Sony laptop, where most of the offensive material was found, did not have a password, and MnDOT technicians knew it, the judge noted.
She also noted that at Lari's administrative hearing, his colleagues described him as a "skilled strategic thinker with a strong work ethic and a well-known reputation for personal integrity and truthfulness."
The judge rejected allegations in the investigative report that Lari had bought his souped-up Sony laptop without authorization, noting that members of the MnDOT staff helped him select it. And she rejected MnDOT's finding that Lari had no need for the laptop, citing his use of it for roving presentations.
As for the allegations that he had unauthorized software installed on the computer, Sheehy noted that some of the same software was installed on his office desktop computer. Technicians were aware of it but never suggested that it was improper.
"Adeel Lari did not engage in any verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature in violation of the Department's sexual harassment policy," Sheehy concluded. And he did not knowingly let his son access or store pornographic material on the computers.
While allowing his son to download music was a violation of an internal policy, Sheehy said, "this is not a serious violation."
Heil Talimerica! THAT FUCKER SHOULD GO TO JAIL FOR ALLOWING HIS SON ACCESS TO NAKED PICTURES AND NOT SUPERVISING HIM PROPERLY! THAT'S CHILD NEGLECT AND CHILD ABUSE! WHERE ARE THOSE CHILD PORNOGRAPHY LAWS WHEN YOU NEED THEM TO PROTECT THE CHILDREN!
BAGAGAGGAGAGHAHAHAHAHAHA!