Because I thought it would be redundant! That it would be a waste of an email! Look, I knew nothing about this Register article. Bored one afternoon, I just followed the same trail of deduction and investigation that one has to assume the Register followed - all the stuff is there online - and I thought "Oh, no wonder they (WMF) kept that quiet!" I realise now that, sadly, I was wrong.
Jimbo, don't look at me. Look at your staff/Board. Someone there must have known - the COO can't just vanish to jail and no one on the staff/Board knows anything - and they neglected to tell you. That's the other story of incompetence here - apart from hiring her in the first place - and if they had, you could have got a counter-spin machine working in advance for when the story eventually did go public, as sooner or later it was bound too. Look at your own staff, and ask "who did not tell me when they should have done?". They're your staff, not mine. Nor did I think it my concern to let you know in case of fraud concerns - by that time the audit had just kicked off, and if she has stolen money your auditors will find it. It seems unlikely anyway, and you have promised (and all plaudits to you for doing so) to put back in from your own pocket any monies she took out.
CM
Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 03:56:56 -0800 From: jwales@wikia.com To: wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Former Wikimedia employee was a felon.
Christiano Moreschi wrote:
For the very simple reason that I found it impossible to believe that the COO of WMF got carted off to jail and nobody bothered to tell the boss (that's you). Evidently I was wrong. It's somewhat hard to believe, but it seems to be true. How bizarre.
Again, I ask you. If you knew something, why did you not tell me?
--Jimbo
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