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(a)wikia.com
To: wikien-l(a)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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