Omaha accountant, Clarence "Fred" Weber appears to have a problem. First off, he was sending sexts to a 14 year-old and 13 year-old girl, "request[ing] naked photos of the girls, […] pictures of the girls partially clothed, [and] others centered on sexual activities." This, obviously, is disturbing, illegal, and completely unacceptable but secondly good God, 3,000 text messages a month to two people?
Weber, 43, has been charged with two counts of enticing a child with an electronic device. Weber exchanged about 2,000 messages with a 14-year-old girl and more than 1,000 texts with a 13-year-old, prosecutors say. […] There were an additional 70 emails between Weber and the older girl in which he asked if she had revealed their relationship to parents or school officials, according to a search warrant for Weber's electronic devices. In the messages, Weber allegedly indicated that he could reveal the girl's alcohol or sexual history to her parents. Weber's business title in the signature tag line was attached to some of the emails, according to court documents.
So, if this guy is your accountant, feel free to relieve him of his services for depravity, incompetence or both. But mostly depravity.
U.S. Steel CEO and vice chairman of the Penn State Board of Trustees John Surma spent last night in the hot seat, fielding angry questions from bitter Penn State fans-cum-journalists (read: second year J-schoolers) distraught by this whole scandal nonsense. You see, it fell on his shoulders to announce to the world that the trustees canned head coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier.
Why do we care? Surma got his BS in accounting from Penn State University in 1976 and started off his career at then Price Waterhouse. He is a member of the AICPA and sits on the Bank of New York Mellon’s board. Therefore, he’s a member of the club.
See? This is why you send a CPA into the lion’s den. An architect would have crumbled. An engineer may have cried. A doctor would have cowered in fear. But a CPA? Stone-faced and calm with zero emotion, just how a Board of Trustees vice chairman should be when announcing a beloved coach has been canned due to, er, questionable discretion. And of course, because CPAs aren’t real big on that whole interaction thing, they called Paterno on the phone to tell him the news. Not a sit down or even coffee, but a phone call.
Told you he was gangsta.
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