Category Archives: News and Events

Yes, you read it here. Annual bank heists have dropped, from 5,546 in 2010 to 3,033 in 2018. Kudos to the underworld for tapering off. Thanks to the banks for making robbery more difficult. We customers are not crazy about … Continue reading →

Charles Van Doren was at the heart of the 1950’s television quiz show game scandal. Contestants were winning big bucks as America watched in awe of their knowledge of history, literature, and art. As it turned out, the contestants were … Continue reading →

In his statement to the President’s Council on Bioethics in 2002 on the issue of stem-cell research using embryos: “We want to bequeath to them [referring to our children] a world, a moral universe, in which they ought to live. … Continue reading →

Howard Schilit, a forensic accounting expert, has provided us with some valuable information. Uber and Lyft have some interesting notions about accounting. Both ride-share services offer discounts, coupons, incentives, freebies, and all manner of lures to get folks into an … Continue reading →

Noting that, “The parents were coming in risqué clothes. They were coming in a manner that was not presentable for the educational setting.” Principal Carlotta Outley Brown of James Madison High School, Houston, Texas. So, the principal passed a dress … Continue reading →

Mossimo Giannulli, husband of Lori Laughlin, wrote the following in a e-mail to a cooperating witness in Operation Varsity Blue (the college admission cheating investigation), and copied Ms. Loughlin on the e-mail: “We just met with (our older daughter’s) college counselor … Continue reading →

A March 2019 survey by the executive search firm indicates that 81% of parents care about their children getting into a top-tier school, meaning that only 19% of their children do. The kids probably have this one right — the … Continue reading →

Cook County State’s Attorney, Kim Foxx, indicated that she had recused herself from the Jussie Smollett debacle because she had communicated with outsiders (representatives for Smollett) who were concerned about Mr. Smollett’s fate. When text messages emerged that indicated her … Continue reading →

A friend of Lori Laughlin and her designer husband told ET (Entertainment Tonight, not the Spielberg character (the Barometer checked because, well, with this story being so over the top that it is hard to believe 90% of it all, … Continue reading →

That rate is double the average free-riders in other cities and well above the 3.4% of subway riders who do not pay. Between the subway and bus free-riders, New York City loses $225 million in revenue per year. A reporter … Continue reading →

One guesses that successful burglars could list all the weak point in home security systems and advise accordingly. However, there is also the possibility that they might withhold some or employe false premises to convince homeowners to take or not … Continue reading →

All done outside of probate, financial adviser Lawrence J. Mieras, Jr. received $500,000 from two annuities owned by his deceased client, Addie Belle Jones. The two variable annuities paid Mr. Mieras the sums outside of her probate. Not bad work … Continue reading →

As an author, the Barometer can appreciate how difficult it is to write a book, even more difficult to work for sales. However, the mayor of Baltimore, Catherine Pugh, has streamlined the whole process. Her Honor has a series of … Continue reading →

Gordon Caplan, former partner (and co-chair) at the Wilkie Farr & Gallagher law firm said in disclosing his plannedplea, “the remorse and shame that I feel is more than I can convey. I apologize not only to my family, friends, … Continue reading →