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June 27, 2016
From: The Federation of Connecticut Taxpayer
Organizations
Contact: Susan Kniep, President
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BREAKING NEWS - NEW YORK
TIMES
Monday, June 27, 2016 10:36
AM
The Supreme Court vacated the
conviction of Virginia ex-governor, making it harder to prosecute officials for
corruption
The Supreme Court on Monday made it harder to prosecute
public officials for corruption, unanimously vacating the conviction against
Bob McDonnell, a former governor of Virginia.
Mr. McDonnell, a Republican, was charged with using his
office to help Jonnie R. Williams Sr., who had provided the McDonnells with
luxury products, loans and vacations worth more than $175,000 when Mr.
McDonnell was governor. The gifts themselves were legal, and the question in
the case was whether they were part of a corrupt bargain in which Mr. McDonnell
reciprocated by using the power of his office to help Mr. Williams.
Read more
15-474 McDonnell v. United States (06/27/2016)
Supreme
Court - 1 hour ago
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Supreme Court Strikes Down Texas Abortion Restrictions - The
New York
Times
by ADAM LIPTAK JUNE 27, 2016 The
New York Times
WASHINGTON The Supreme
Court on Monday struck down parts of a restrictive Texas law that could
have reduced the number of abortion clinics in the state to about 10 from what
was once a high of roughly 40.
The 5-to-3 decision was the courts most sweeping statement
on abortion rights since Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992. It applied a
skeptical and exacting version of that decisions undue burden standard to find
that the restrictions in Texas
must fall.
The decision on Monday means that similar restrictions in
other states are most likely also unconstitutional, and it imperils many other
kinds of restrictions. Continue
reading at http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/28/us/supreme-court-texas-abortion.html?_r=0
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UCONN: AN INCREASE IN RAPES AND WAGES
Within the past couple of weeks, the University of Connecticut
has made the news but not in a good way.
Through social media, there has been an outcry by the public regarding
the Six-month sentence in Stanford sexual assault case leads to a
push to recall judge.
Within the June 6, 2016 Washington Post article reporter Susan Svrluga quotes Michele Landis Dauber, a
professor of law at Stanford Law School, who stated The sentence is completely
inappropriate. It is far outside the range of what the legislature
intended. It is out of step with community values. We cannot send a message
that campus rape is different than other rape. This sentence is unjust and it is
also dangerous.
It is now apparent that many
parents, the public and political activists agree as we welcome a spotlight
being put on this most egregious of crimes, primarily against women, which previously
had been allowed to lurk in the shadows.
And today we are learning from the Guardian the following: Aaron
Persky, the judge in the Stanford sexual assault trial, is presiding over a
similar case in which a Latino man faces a much harsher sentence than that handed
to the student athlete Brock Turner. Raul Ramirez, a 32-year-old from El Salvador,
has admitted to sexually assaulting his female roommate and is facing three
years in state prison. Turner is a white 20-year-old who Persky sentenced to
probation and six months in county jail, for sexually assaulting an unconscious
woman. Continue reading at
Stanford judge overseeing much harsher
sentence for similar assault case
And
most recently, we have seen the impact of this crime on our own college
campuses in Connecticut,
as on June 8, we learned from reporter Mike DeSalvo
The Connecticut Post writes the following: New federal campus
safety data reveals the University
of Connecticut's 43
reported rapes in 2014 led the nation that year.
An analysis of the data by the Washington Post
showed that of the 10 schools with the most reported rapes, two are in Connecticut and nine are
on the East Coast. Brown University also had 43 reported rapes, while Wesleyan
University, in Middletown, ranked fourth with 37 reported rapes.
Nearly 100 colleges and
universities had at least 10 reports of rape on their main campuses in 2014,
according to federal campus safety data, with Brown
University and the University of Connecticut tied for the highest annual total 43 each.
The following are the top 10:
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Rape reporting at colleges and
universities:
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|
School
|
State
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Enrolled
|
Rape Reports
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Rape Per Thousands
|
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Brown University
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RI
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9181
|
43
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4.7
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University of Connecticut
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CT
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26541
|
43
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1.6
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Dartmouth College
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NH
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6298
|
42
|
6.7
|
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Wesleyan University
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CT
|
3224
|
37
|
11.5
|
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University of Virginia
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VA
|
23732
|
35
|
1.5
|
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Harvard University
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MA
|
28791
|
33
|
1.1
|
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University of North Carolina
at Charlotte
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NC
|
27238
|
32
|
1.2
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Rutgers University-New Brunswick
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NJ
|
48378
|
32
|
0.7
|
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University of Vermont
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VT
|
12856
|
27
|
2.1
|
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Stanford University
|
CA
|
16963
|
26
|
1.5
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And we remember the headlines on July 18, 2014 which read UConn to Pay $1.3 Million to End Suit on Rape Cases - The New
York ...Times. Therein New York
Times reporter TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG wrote the
following: The University
of Connecticut will pay
$1.28 million to settle a lawsuit filed by five students who charged that the
university had treated their claims of sexual assault and harassment with
indifference, the two sides announced on Friday in a joint statement. One of
the complainants, Silvana Moccia, a former hockey player at the university,
will receive $900,000. Ms. Moccia charged that she was cut from the hockey team
after reporting her rape to her coach. She joined the lawsuit in December, a
month after it was filed by the other four women, who will receive payments
ranging from $25,000 to $125,000. Continue
reading at http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/19/nyregion/uconn-to-pay-1-3-million-to-end-suit-on-rape-cases.html?_r=0
And now we also learn of INCREASED WAGES AT UCONN from
CTMirror.org that Legislative leaders call UConn tone deaf over raises for top
staff noting that "UConn's
administration continues to be tone deaf to the economic realities facing our
state. Handing out exorbitant raises to their highest-paid staffers while at
the same time increasing tuition on hard-working families is the height of
arrogance," House Speaker J. Brendan Sharkey, D-Hamden, said in a statement
sent to reporters Thursday afternoon. "As state employee layoffs approach
the 1,000 mark, and virtually every state agency is dealing with severe budget
cuts, the leadership in Storrs
has shown once again they just do not get it." Senate President Pro Tem Martin Looney, D-New Haven, in a statement
shortly afterward, called on UConn to rescind the raises. Continue Reading →
And as the Federation notes
those raises will ultimately become hefty pensions. To see the salaries and
benefits of UConn employees follow these simple steps.
- Click on Employee Compensation.
- Next click on Advanced Search.
- Next click on All Agencies, and go down to the University of Connecticut, and click Search.
- Then go over
to the last Column, headed Total. Click it on twice and you will see the
highest to the lowest paid. You can move to the next column by clicking
the arrow above the heading. Need help? Call 860-841-8032 or write to
fctopresident@aol.com
To view the pensions of all
State employees, click Pensions, next click Search,
next go to the last column headed Total and
click twice to view the highest to the lowest pensions being paid. So how does
your pension compare? Or will you even get one!
To view the compensation of all State
employees, click Employee Compensation, next
click Advanced Search, next go to Search,
next go to the last column headed Total
and click twice to view the highest to the lowest wages and benefits being
paid.
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