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Jim Yong Kim Weak on Whistleblower Protections at Dartmouth

Bea Edwards –April 13, 2012

As president of Dartmouth University, President Obama’s nominee to head the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, presides over extreme, traumatizing, pervasive, revolting and potentially illegal hazing at fraternities. Andrew Lohse, the whistleblower who exposed it, is now, alone, among those charged with misconduct, on the brink of expulsion.

Janet Reitman of Rolling Stone investigated Dartmouth’s infamous fraternity system and described the violence, class privilege and ritual abuse that fraternity pledges must survive in order to join the clubs. On this site, we don’t quite have the stomach to detail the particulars of hazing at Dartmouth, but suffice it to say that the customs mainly involve forcing the younger boys to wallow repeatedly in the bodily emissions of the older ones. Extreme binge drinking is, of course, part of the fun, as well as, inevitably, gang vomiting.

Greg McArthur – February 7, 2012

The World Bank doled out more than $57-billion (U.S.) in grants and loans for projects in developing countries in its last fiscal year, a deep pool of money that is aggressively coveted by major multinational contractors and engineering firms.

But sitting behind a desk in Washington, D.C., there’s a former U.S. prosecutor who will not hesitate to try to turn off that tap if he senses a dirty deal – a punishment that, pending the outcome of a continuing criminal probe, could be in store for Canadian engineering giant SNC-Lavalin Group Inc.

Bea Edwards – September 16, 2011

Last week Corporate Counsel reported that infamous military security firm Xe (previously Blackwater) has hired Suzanne Folsom as its first chief regulatory/compliance officer and deputy general counsel.

The article quotes Folsom crony and former AIG General Counsel Anastasia "Stasia" Kelly, gushing about her friend's talents:

Dan Bilefsky – November 3, 2009

BUCHAREST — Alina Lungu, 30, says she did everything necessary to ensure a healthy pregnancy in Romania: She ate organic food, swam daily and bribed her gynecologist with an extra €200 in cash, paid in monthly increments of €25 handed over discreetly in white envelopes.

Another bribe of €25, or about $32, went to a nurse to guarantee an epidural. Even the orderly reaped an extra €10 to make sure he didn't drop her from the stretcher. But on the day of her delivery, she says, her gynecologist never arrived.