UNWRITTEN: DCS Interagency Blame Game August 2006-2013

August 2006

Elyssa - thanks for continuing to update us on DB. I received an email from Eric Henderson who has been looking into DB's case. 

According to his information there was a CFTM schedule for DB, transitional living staff, etc. on 9-6-06 and she did not attend. In the email, Eric states that DB signed for a certified letter regarding the meeting in August. 

This meeting might have been a way for DB to meet everyone face to face to discuss her needs, etc. From her past experience with DCS, I wondered if she was discouraged about meeting with them or felt it might be more of the same old, same old." 

You probably have the best rapport and insight into how she if feeling with the situation.

Is DB at the place where she can follow a program, rules, or guidelines that might be required by certain programs, etc. to receive housing, services, etc.? 

In my experience working with many older foster children they can be so tired of all this with the system, that they basically shut down when needing to access services, etc. after aging out. 

Does she need a case manager or support that she can partner with for these meetings and contacts that will provide the consistent "cheerleading" when perhaps she cannot she the forest for the trees (needing to attend meetings, follow expectations, file forms, etc)? 

My reason for asking these questions is to get your perspective on where DB is in being able to access resources and then maintaining them (again relating to following a program, etc.) 

[Redacted] CMSW 

Assistant Statewide Program Coordinator 

Office phone: 615-269-7751 

1315 8th Ave. South 

Nashville, TN. 37203 

Mark Your Calendar's Now !!!!!!!! 

TVC's State of the Child Conference 2006 

October 16-18, 2006. For more info, visit our website, www.tnvoices.org

August 2013

POST SCRIPT: Transportation never showed up to take DB to the meeting. As a member of the team and DB's primary counselor, CM and the person who requested the meeting to help advocate and secure services for my former client, I was not at the meeting because the state conveniently forgot to tell me when and where it was. 

DB later informed me that did go to a meeting and sat alone on one side of the long table in the conference room and had no one there to defend, advocate, or support her throughout the meeting.  

She was not offered ANY post custody services and was too intimidated to speak or advocate for herself with five to seven state employees sitting on the other side of the table blaming her for their mistakes and denying services that she was legally entitled to under state and federal law. 

She left that meeting with no services, no benefits, no hope, and no recourse. 

DB if you are reading this, please know that your story needs to be heard. 

In a court of law. I saved your records and gave them to an attorney for your protection. 

I hope you sue those fuckers for what they did to you and so many others. 

Your file was audited and I submitted a report to TVC and TCCY that your case file had been falsified by the for profit agency that pimped you out for $60/day. The court knew this because I called Carrie and told her. 

She told me that she was too busy to be bothered bringing you in two months before your eighteenth birthday. 

I did pick you up much to everyone's horror, and they were pissed that I managed to locate you just in time to benefit from post custody benefits that would entitle you to educational expenses, housing, transportation, healthcare, and transitional funds to get you started.  

That was an illegal placement and when I resigned, I left the agency because they refused to comply with federal laws and I refused to sign a false treatment report. 

Your file was audited and my signature was forged by KM. 

He used white out and didn't even try to color between the lines or match my handwriting. 

Two of us quit that day. Both of us will testify on your behalf. 

I'm sorry I couldn't do more. Your file is available if you need it. 

Be well, sweet girl and Happy Birthday. 

-Miss Elys

EXPERTS: Where There's A Tax, There's a Way to Cheat || Philadelphia Inquirer

EXPERTS: WHERE THERE’S A TAX, THERE’S A WAY TO CHEAT

Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA)

April 17, 1995
Section: PHILADELPHIA BUSINESS
Edition: FINAL
Page: F01

IRS TRIES TO IMPROVE ITS RATE OF COLLECTION ACCORDING TO EXPERTS, WHERE THERE’S A TAX, THERE’S A WAY TO CHEAT.

Julie Stoiber, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

Today is tax day. Listen to how easy it was for one man to rip off the Internal Revenue Service:

My Company filed a total of 9,000 returns in 1992, for tax year I 991, which netted my customers approximately $8 million in total refunds. Of that total, I would guess that roughly half of the returns contained false information about dependents, wages, or filing status. That year . . . I recognized how easy it was.”

Richard M. Hersch, a tax preparer from Ardmore, kept his scheme going for two years.

Testifying this month before a U.S. Senate committee, Hersch gave a glimpse of the opportunities for fraud just in the IRS’s electronic filing system: “In all modesty, it would take several hours for me to share with you the virtually endless possibilities.”

Hersch is a big fish in the murky pond of tax deception. He has plenty of company, and they come in all sizes.

Tax cheats inhabit every neighborhood and economic stratum, and they have endless ways of paying less than they owe. They are your doctor, your neighbor, your lawyer, your favorite waitress at the corner tap. Even your Aunt Betty is ripping off Uncle Sam.

“The number of criminal prosecutions is rising. The number of cases we are working is rising,” said Steven J. PeterseII, a Criminal Investigation Division chief in the IRS’s Philadelphia office. “One could assume there is pIenty of it.”

The tax gap - the difference between what the government collects and what it is owed - runs about $127 a year, according to IRS estimates. A 100 percent collection rate for just one year could make a big

The federal budget deficit, which stands at $200 billion.

Not to mention what it could do for the legions of honest taxpayers: If everyone woke up tomorrow and deckiec~ to play it straight with the IRS, Congress could cut tax rates across the board.

Peter R. Merrill, an economist in Price Waterhouse’s Washington office, concluded that rates could go down by as much as 10 percentage points. He came up with that number by dividing the tax gap by the amount the government would collect if everyone suddenly started paying his or her fair share. human nature being what it is, though, that is not likely to happen.

“I think most people are honest - and most people practice tax avoidance,” said Jeffrey M. Miller, the Center City lawyer who represents Hersch. “Most people try to pay as little tax as they can.”

Miller declined to discuss Hersch, who pleaded guilty and is to be sentenced later this month. But he was willing to share observations gleaned during seven years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office and 17 as a criminal defense lawyer. Tax avoidance takes all forms, Miller said. “Some are legal, some are illegal, and some are questionable.”

* A man buys a house at the Shore with four bedrooms. In one of them, he puts a desk - and writes off one-quarter of the cost of the house as a business expense.

* A video shop owner makes a deal with her workers to pay half their salary in cash; nobody declares the full amount, and both employer and employees get a break on their taxes.

* A waitress, on her feet till 2 in the morning, earns $150 in tips. She has three kids at home with their noses pointed toward college. For income tax purposes, those tips become $15.

*A contractor withholds taxes from his workers’ pay, but puts the money back into his business instead of in the mail to the IRS. At tax time, his workers file for refunds - and get them - even though their boss never actually paid taxes on their behalf.

Mom and Pop at the deli down the block take in $7,000 cash a week, and tell the IRS it is $4,000.

“Next time you go into a store and buy something, see if it gets rung up,” said Martin Enterlin, another criminal investigation chief at the IRS. “If not, that’s a pretty good indication it’s not going to get reported.”

Penalties for those who get caught range from fines to jail time.

And the IRS, some say, is not bad at catching them.

Marc Durant, a Center City lawyer who represents white-collar criminals, said the IRS’s criminal investigators are competent and well-trained, with strong accounting backgrounds.

John B. Stine 2d, a tax partner at Price Waterhouse, said that the IRS’s computer programs are increasingly sophisticated, and that, as a result, the reporting of stock sales, real estate sales, on-the-side income and dividends and interest has improved.

But the tax gap suggests that there are plenty of evaders out there, particularly those in cash businesses.

Durant, like Miller, worked as a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office before switching to criminal defense.

“Economic sociopaths” is what he calls the big tax cheats, the schemers. “They will steal from anybody at any time. The rest, he said, “are really basically just regular people.”

 And many of them don’t think of themselves as criminals.

In a country jaded by tales of government waste, fat-cat favoritism, and crooked congressmen, taxation based on the honor system is a tough sell.

“The system depends on taxpayers’ willingness to comply,” Durant said. “The whole sense of the public . . . That the government does not deserve their faithful compliance.

“I’m near certain that the incidence of tax evasion in World War II was a . . . fraction of what it is today,” he said. “I’m certain, intuitively, that there is more tax evasion today. During World War II, people felt the country needed the money.”

Today, they are more likely to feel that the government will throw it away on $600 toilet seats or some congressional perk, like the publicly subsidized hair salon for legislators that only recently was eliminated.

“People are struggling,” Durant said. “I think they feel that the money goes to better use to them than to the government.”

He remembers one case in which a business owner kept two sets of books - one with actual revenues, the other with what he reported to the government - for the sheer joy of knowing how much he was getting over on the IRS.

When he got caught, the evidence was overwhelming.

"I don’t want to sound like an apologist for these people,” Durant said. “I’m not an apologist. I’m just telling you the kinds of things I hear.”

Miller hears the same thing.

“Everybody who pays taxes thinks about the guy who is not paying taxes.”

And they come up with ways to keep more for themselves.

The IRS, in its efforts to stop them, devises new measures to detect cheaters. And just as quickly, the tax cheats come up with ways to circumvent them. “Fraud perpetrators . . . adapt continuously to new fraud controls,” IRS Commissioner Margaret Milner Richardson recently told Congress.

Hersch, the Ardmore tax preparer, rode to riches on electronic filing and the Earned Income Tax Credit, a refund for the working poor, which he dubbed “Easy Income for Tax Cheats.”

Big-time schemers like Hersch are often brought down when a relationship goes awry. Someone with an ax to grind - disgruntled employee, ex-spouse - goes to the IRS.

“Despite how straightforward my schemes were, I was caught only because several employees of my company became informants and went to the authorities,” Hersch told his Senate audience. “I am confident that if the employees had not turned me in, the IRS would never have caught on and that I would still be in business today.”

Illustration: PHOTO

PHOTO (2)

1. Martin Enterlin (left) and Steven J. Petersell, employees of the IRS Criminal Investigation Division, at the Philadelphia office.

2. Marc Durant, a Center City lawyer, says IRS investigators are well-trained and have strong accounting backgrounds. He said big tax cheats are “economic sociopaths” who “will steal from anybody at any time.” The rest “are really basically just regular people,” he said.

(The Philadelphia Inquirer VICKI VALERIO)

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Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

In a galaxy far far away ….. dum dum dum dee dee dum well something like that anyway lol

People have said a lot of things in the past few weeks about a certain competition V7N , So I jumped in with both feet, why people will ask, to be honest because I was bored. Remember I had a go at Jason Calcanis, and Blog Herald jumped all over me .. lol not Jason hmm

Well I had a go at John Scott recently mainly because I felt that he was having a pop at Mike Grehan, well I think those two have kissed and made up now so I’m not going into the details..

So why am I posting this .. dead easy, FlameWars can and do get you links. Ok the Flamewars rules :

a) Pick your fighting ground
Example Threadwatch, Notice Seobook is just pointing out a writeup on SeoBuzzBox, Ok Threadwatch is one of playing grounds like V7N, so if you’re going to pick a fight pick a ground you feel comfortable with.

b) Get in quick and straight to the point !
OK I knew that telling John to suck my dick would make him rise to the bait … well it had to really, lol. Also notice the “officially NOT on the fence so you better pick a side” to seobook .. chances are Aaron wall won’t bite back at me ..(phew He didn’t) but someone would have to back him up, hopefully John Scott’s Troll

c) The response
John Scott returns his volley, it’s a very good return, and I would have been done and walked away. I knew that people would post the calm down or stop being childish etc threads, but John made a schoolboy error he posted a controversial image of a disabled child ! ( now in his playing ground that might have been acceptable but not here .. oops )

d) Sit back
The community should now attack or walk away, top tip… you do the same lol (notice half way down John Scott post

e) Wait and wait some more ..
BINGO the target .. yes a Flamewar should always target someone who is defending someone else. Mike Dammann steps up .. thank you lord a fool

Mike Dammann’s Post :
looking at people like DaveN and Mike Grehan and their lack of class and manners. So should everyone in this industry be.

Class and manners… ok, Mike Grehan has these, so he may feel offended but not me

I find it surprising that anyone would want to associate himself with such individuals. That speaks very poorly of our industry as a whole that anyone that low could be accepted as equals within our community.

LOL I’m a Blackhat Seo. I work in Casinos, Pills, Loans, and the Affiliate marketplace, Notice the Naked Bull Riding !! (added for my whitehat corp clients, I still love you guys too)

Those 2 are yes men and what DaveN has suggested for John Scott to do to him … wouldn’t be a surprise to me if that is how Mike and Dave have gotten your foot into the door somehow.

YES men HAHAHAHA, that’s too funny I nearly pissed myself , you see Mr Damman, you have the good and you have the evil, we are not the same by a long shot, I mud wrestle in the serps , while Mike swims in champagne, both top of our Game, just different games lol

Aaron doesn’t have to pick any side, Dave. You don’t get it. He is not on your level, he’s intelligent enough to understand seo without sucking up to anyone, and he is mature enough to choose his battles well and not fall into the herd mentality.

Yep, I agree I threw the Aaron bit in to find my Troll

But then again, if it wasn’t for following someone, you and Mike Grehan would be working at McDonalds or cleaning trainstation bathrooms together

Lol that’s too funny as well, I have worked at a Happy Eater (they are like McDonald’s but on our motorways), while I was saving up to go to college to learn how to programme which was kind of a big step because none of my friends or family were into computers, so that kind of rules out the bit about having to follow someone.

I have no problems of you bad mouthing me and you linking to my site, after all you’re a fucking nobody, but isn’t that part of the game, but please get some facts right .

I have been married twice, but never walk out on my family
I do live in a half a million pound house and have never lived in my car
I always pay my way and never free load or sneak into places
I have rode a bull naked (well with my boxers still on!)
And the ONLY competition I will be entering is the Greg and DaveN Vodka challenge, But again thanks for the Links

DaveN

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FlameWars

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

In a galaxy far far away ….. dum dum dum dee dee dum well something like that anyway lol

People have said a lot of things in the past few weeks about a certain competition V7N , So I jumped in with both feet, why people will ask, to be honest because I was bored. Remember I had a go at Jason Calcanis, and Blog Herald jumped all over me .. lol not Jason hmm

Well I had a go at John Scott recently mainly because I felt that he was having a pop at Mike Grehan, well I think those two have kissed and made up now so I’m not going into the details..

So why am I posting this .. dead easy, FlameWars can and do get you links. Ok the Flamewars rules :

a) Pick your fighting ground
Example Threadwatch, Notice Seobook is just pointing out a writeup on SeoBuzzBox, Ok Threadwatch is one of playing grounds like V7N, so if you’re going to pick a fight pick a ground you feel comfortable with.

b) Get in quick and straight to the point !
OK I knew that telling John to suck my dick would make him rise to the bait … well it had to really, lol. Also notice the “officially NOT on the fence so you better pick a side” to seobook .. chances are Aaron wall won’t bite back at me ..(phew He didn’t) but someone would have to back him up, hopefully John Scott’s Troll

c) The response
John Scott returns his volley, it’s a very good return, and I would have been done and walked away. I knew that people would post the calm down or stop being childish etc threads, but John made a schoolboy error he posted a controversial image of a disabled child ! ( now in his playing ground that might have been acceptable but not here .. oops )

d) Sit back
The community should now attack or walk away, top tip… you do the same lol (notice half way down John Scott post

e) Wait and wait some more ..
BINGO the target .. yes a Flamewar should always target someone who is defending someone else. Mike Dammann steps up .. thank you lord a fool

Mike Dammann’s Post :
looking at people like DaveN and Mike Grehan and their lack of class and manners. So should everyone in this industry be.

Class and manners… ok, Mike Grehan has these, so he may feel offended but not me

I find it surprising that anyone would want to associate himself with such individuals. That speaks very poorly of our industry as a whole that anyone that low could be accepted as equals within our community.

LOL I’m a Blackhat Seo. I work in Casinos, Pills, Loans, and the Affiliate marketplace, Notice the Naked Bull Riding !! (added for my whitehat corp clients, I still love you guys too)

Those 2 are yes men and what DaveN has suggested for John Scott to do to him … wouldn’t be a surprise to me if that is how Mike and Dave have gotten your foot into the door somehow.

YES men HAHAHAHA, that’s too funny I nearly pissed myself , you see Mr Damman, you have the good and you have the evil, we are not the same by a long shot, I mud wrestle in the serps , while Mike swims in champagne, both top of our Game, just different games lol

Aaron doesn’t have to pick any side, Dave. You don’t get it. He is not on your level, he’s intelligent enough to understand seo without sucking up to anyone, and he is mature enough to choose his battles well and not fall into the herd mentality.

Yep, I agree I threw the Aaron bit in to find my Troll

But then again, if it wasn’t for following someone, you and Mike Grehan would be working at McDonalds or cleaning trainstation bathrooms together

Lol that’s too funny as well, I have worked at a Happy Eater (they are like McDonald’s but on our motorways), while I was saving up to go to college to learn how to programme which was kind of a big step because none of my friends or family were into computers, so that kind of rules out the bit about having to follow someone.

I have no problems of you bad mouthing me and you linking to my site, after all you’re a fucking nobody, but isn’t that part of the game, but please get some facts right .

I have been married twice, but never walk out on my family
I do live in a half a million pound house and have never lived in my car
I always pay my way and never free load or sneak into places
I have rode a bull naked (well with my boxers still on!)
And the ONLY competition I will be entering is the Greg and DaveN Vodka challenge, But again thanks for the Links

DaveN

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