On Dec 13, 2007 7:35 PM, joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
Quoting George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com:
On Dec 13, 2007 7:12 PM, Avi avi.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
It depends on the company. For the companies I have worked for, a background check including criminal record check is pretty much standard. Some even require drug tests, and I work in the financial services industry where there pretty much is no exposure to child care.
My consulting company does background checks on everyone, and some of our customers do as well.
Having a DUI conviction or arrest is not a disqualifier for an executive, financial, or technical job, usually.
Not disclosing it would be grounds for termination if discovered, but that doesn't seem to apply here.
She wasn't just convicted of drunk driving. According to the Register "Her record also included convictions for passing bad checks, theft, petty larceny, additional DUIs, and unlawfully wounding her boyfriend with a gun shot to the chest"
Some digging on my own raises questions whether he's identified the same person there or not.
I can't disprove the claim, but I can't verify it either. Someone will have to call the Florida courts tomorrow and get transcripts and her full legal name to see if it's the same person or not.
If it is the same person, then she also apparently lost her husband in an accidental drowning on their honeymoon in 1999:
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/shdoran.htm
But again, I can't confirm that at this time.