Prep school's investigators say sex abuse claims against the late Congressman Gerry Studds substantiated

Associated Press Wednesday, August 22, 2018

CONCORD, N.H. — An independent investigation into sexual misconduct at a New Hampshire prep school has now substantiated abuse claims against 20 former faculty and staff members dating back decades including a former Massachusetts congressman.

St. Paul's School released two reports after an independent investigation in 2017 detailing allegations against 17 people who worked there between 1947 and 1999. An addendum released Tuesday includes the names of three additional people who allegedly committed abuse between 1967 and 1988.

The list includes former teachers, administrators, chaplains and a counselor accused of a range of misconduct from inappropriate touching to forced kissing to one teacher who allegedly took students on several trips to New York City to have sex with prostitutes.

Investigators also found evidence the school failed to protect students at the time or fully investigate their complaints. Several of the accused were fired, but most were quietly "moved on" with letters of recommendations for their next jobs, according to the Boston law firm Casner & Edwards.

St. Paul's requested the investigation last year following reports about Howard White, who taught at St. Paul's from 1967 to 1971 and pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting students from St. George's School in Rhode Island in 1973.

In the latest report, investigators said they were able to substantiate allegations against the late Massachusetts Congressman Gerry Studds, who was described as preying on male students during his time there from 1965 to 1969.

https://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/2018/08/prep_schools_investigators_say_sex_abuse_claims_against_the_late_congressman

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Yes, a good reminder.

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Nice POTUS.

IRS Still Lacks Protections for Sensitive Taxpayer Information

Report: Data still vulnerable to attacks, unauthorized collection

August 20, 2018

The Internal Revenue Service has failed to implement a series of reforms aimed at bolstering its protection of sensitive taxpayer information, leaving the agency's computer systems vulnerable to unauthorized access that could compromise Americans' financial information, according to a new government oversight report.

While the IRS has taken steps to improve its protection of taxpayer information, it has yet to implement more than 100 security procedures meant to help the agency protect sensitive taxpayer information, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found in its latest audit.

"Until IRS takes additional steps to address unresolved and newly identified control deficiencies and effectively implements components of its information security program, IRS financial reporting and taxpayer data will remain unnecessarily vulnerable to inappropriate and undetected use, modification, or disclosure," according to the report. "These shortcomings were the basis for GAO's determination that IRS had a significant deficiency in internal control over financial reporting systems for fiscal year 2017."

https://freebeacon.com/issues/irs-still-lacks-protections-sensitive-taxpayer-information/

Whose tax return will be released without permission?

New POTUS.