Google cofounder funnels money to wife's startup through Michael J. Fox charity
lc
Fox charity
23andMe admits personalized genetic test serves no medical purpose
http://valleywag.com/381430/23andme-admits-personalized-genetic-test-serves-no-medical-purpose
Fri Apr 18 2008
Facing possible fines and jail time, local gene sequencers Navigenics
and 23andMe will have to get permits if they want to continue testing
resident of New York state. Meanwhile, California is investigating 12
complaints against unnamed gene sequencing companies, with officials
noting that "all genetic tests must be ordered by a licensed
physician." Trying to distance themselves from health regulators,
23andMe spokesman Paul Kranholdt told Forbes that "23andMe's services
are not medical ... they are educational." In other words, getting
tested amounts to a $1,000 exercise in vanity. No wonder people in the
Valley love it.
23andMe told to cease and desist by California Department of Public
Health
http://valleywag.com/5017281/23andme-told-to-cease-and-desist-by-california-department-of-public-health
Tue Jun 17 2008
Google cofounder funnels money to wife's startup through Michael J.
Fox charity
http://valleywag.com/5025875/google-cofounder-funnels-money-to-wifes-startup-through-michael-j-fox-charity
Google employees must avoid even the appearance of a conflict of
interest, according to the company's code of conduct. But Sergey Brin
is exempt from such bureaucratic trifles. The cofounder skirted
ethical lines when he loaned money to 23andMe, a genetic-testing
startup cofounded by his wife, Anne Wojcicki, and later had Google
repay that loan in the course of investing in that company. The Google
board's audit committee and CEO Eric Schmidt blithely signed off on
the deal, however. Now, Brin has found a new way to route money to
23andMe, this time through a charity — thereby boosting, at least
notionally, the value of Google's investment and his wife's net worth.
Brin can claim it's all for a good cause, but the deal stinks to high
heaven.
Wed Jul 16 2008
zzbu...@netscape.net
> Google cofounder funnels money to wife's startup through Michael J.
> Fox charity
>
> Fri Apr 18 2008
> Facing possible fines and jail time, local gene sequencers Navigenics
> and 23andMe will have to get permits if they want to continue testing
> resident of New York state. Meanwhile, California is investigating 12
> complaints against unnamed gene sequencing companies, with officials
> noting that "all genetic tests must be ordered by a licensed
> physician." Trying to distance themselves from health regulators,
> 23andMe spokesman Paul Kranholdt told Forbes that "23andMe's services
> are not medical ... they are educational." In other words, getting
> tested amounts to a $1,000 exercise in vanity. No wonder people in the
> Valley love it.
>
> 23andMe told to cease and desist by California Department of Public
> Tue Jun 17 2008
>
> Google cofounder funnels money to wife's startup through Michael J.
> Google employees must avoid even the appearance of a conflict of
> interest, according to the company's code of conduct. But Sergey Brin
> is exempt from such bureaucratic trifles. The cofounder skirted
> ethical lines when he loaned money to 23andMe, a genetic-testing
> startup cofounded by his wife, Anne Wojcicki, and later had Google
> repay that loan in the course of investing in that company. The Google
> board's audit committee and CEO Eric Schmidt blithely signed off on
> the deal, however. Now, Brin has found a new way to route money to
> 23andMe, this time through a charity — thereby boosting, at least
> notionally, the value of Google's investment and his wife's net worth.
> Brin can claim it's all for a good cause, but the deal stinks to high
> heaven.
Well, for the idiots who actually thought Google was founded to
actually do something with computers, it's just proves that you
should work for Fox News, rather than a computer company.
> Wed Jul 16 2008
lc
Evangelical Money Go?
http://www.israelenews.com/view.asp?ID=2665
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.rush-limbaugh/msg/3f7fba8a5d76f5c3
Foundation never spent a significant amount of funds raised in
American South for Israeli terror victims in 2002.
Morris Talansky testified that he gave Ehud Olmert payments totaling
$150,000.
With some 53,000 residents in the state’s rural north-central
flatlands, Monroe, La., is not the kind of town that would normally
expect to play host to the mayor of Jerusalem. But in October 2002,
Ehud Olmert came to the county seat of Ouachita Parish to urge 500 to
1,000 Evangelical Christians to give, and give generously, to support
victims of terrorism in the Holy City he then governed.
The vehicle Olmert offered for their donations was the New Jerusalem
Foundation (NJF) — a charitable organization he had established as
mayor two years earlier to fund civic projects in Jerusalem with
philanthropic money and municipal cooperation.
On Jul 17, 11:27 am, "zzbun...@netscape.net" <zzbun...@netscape.net>
wrote: