by tyler | Nov 28, 2023 | CNN, us
Here’s a look at the life of John Paulson, hedge fund manager and founder of Paulson & Co.
Birth date: December 14, 1955
Birth place: Queens, New York
Birth name: John Alfred Paulson
Father: Alfred Paulson
Mother: Jacqueline (Boklan) Paulson
Marriage: Jenny (Zaharia) Paulson (2000-present)
Children: Giselle and Danielle
Education: New York University, B.S., Finance, 1978; Harvard Business School, M.B.A., 1980
Founder, president and portfolio manager, Paulson & Company, Inc.
Became a billionaire in 2007 by shorting subprime mortgage securities after the housing crash.
Serves on the boards of many organizations, including the board of trustees of New York University and the board of trustees of the Central Park Conservancy.
1980-1982 – Consultant, Boston Consulting Group, a management consulting firm.
1982-1984 – Associate with Odyssey Partners.
1984-1988 – Managing director of mergers and acquisitions, Bear Stearns Companies, Inc.
1988-1994 – General partner with arbitrage firm Gruss Partners.
July 1994 – Paulson & Company, Inc. is established.
2009 – Paulson’s ability to foresee financial crisis and profit from the 2007 housing market crash is explained in Greg Zuckerman’s book, “The Greatest Trade Ever Made.”
2009-2011 – Paulson’s charitable donations include $15 million to the Center for Responsible Lending, $20 million to New York University’s Stern School of Business and $15 million to build a maternity hospital in Guayaquil, Ecuador, his father’s homeland.
2010 – Paulson’s $4.9 billion take-home salary sets a record for hedge fund industry earnings.
2011 – His fortune declines by $3 billion in 2011 after making bad trades. Paulson invests personal wealth in gold and earns $3.1 billion from 2010-2011.
October 23, 2012 – Donates $100 million to the Central Park Conservancy.
June 3, 2015 – Harvard announces that Paulson is donating $400 million to support its engineering school, which will be renamed after Paulson. It is the largest single gift in Harvard University’s history.
August 5, 2016 – Is announced as one of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s economic advisers. Trump is elected president on November 8, 2016.
June 2017 – Joins the board of directors of Valeant Pharmaceuticals.
July 1, 2020 – According to a report from Bloomberg News, Paulson announces in a letter to investors that Paulson & Company, Inc is converting from a hedge fund firm to a private investment office.
September 20, 2021 – Paulson files for divorce from Jenny Paulson.
July 7, 2022 – Jenny Paulson sues John Paulson for at least $1 billion.
September 6, 2023 – Paulson’s former business partner, Fahad Ghaffar, files a lawsuit against Paulson, accusing him of fraud. On October 16, 2023, Paulson files a suit against Ghaffar, accusing him of engaging in “criminality, deceitful machinations and underhanded self dealings” in order to enrich himself and his family.
by tyler | Nov 27, 2023 | CNN, us
Here is a look at the life of Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States.
Birth date: October 1, 1924
Birth place: Plains, Georgia
Birth name: James Earl Carter Jr.
Father: James Earl Carter Sr., a farmer and businessman
Mother: Lillian (Gordy) Carter
Marriage: Rosalynn (Smith) Carter (July 7, 1946-November 19, 2023, her death)
Children: Amy Lynn, Donnel Jeffrey “Jeff,” James Earl III “Chip” and John William “Jack”
Education: Georgia Southwestern College, 1941-1942; Georgia Institute of Technology, 1942-1943; US Naval Academy, B.S., 1946
Military: US Navy, 1946-1953, Lieutenant
Religion: Christian
Carter was the first US president to be born in a hospital.
Champion of human rights, especially regarding the governments of South Korea, Iran, Argentina, South Africa and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
The Carter Center, established by the former president and his wife in 1982, has observed 113 elections in 39 countries since 1989.
Created the Department of Energy and established a national policy to address the energy shortage.
Is the oldest living former president.
Has been nominated for nine Grammy Awards and has won three.
1953 – Works on his own farm in Plains, Georgia, and operates Carter’s Warehouse, a general-purpose seed and farm supply company.
1962 – Wins election to the Georgia state Senate.
1966 – Runs for governor and loses to Lester Maddox.
November 3, 1970 – Runs for governor a second time and wins.
January 12, 1971 – Is inaugurated as Georgia’s 76th governor.
1974 – Serves as the Democratic National Committee campaign chairman for the 1974 congressional elections.
December 12, 1974 – Officially announces his candidacy for president of the United States.
November 2, 1976 – Elected as the 39th president of the United States.
January 20, 1977 – Inaugurated.
March 26, 1979 – In a ceremony in Washington, DC, Egypt and Israel formally sign a peace treaty ending 31 years of war between them. The successful Camp David Accords are one of the highlights of Carter’s presidency.
November 4, 1979 – The US Embassy in Tehran, Iran, is stormed and diplomatic staff are taken hostage. Carter’s inability to successfully negotiate release of the hostages becomes a major political liability. The hostages are released on January 20, 1981, the day of Ronald Reagan’s inauguration.
1982 – Becomes a professor at Emory University in Atlanta.
1982 – Founds the Carter Center in Atlanta, in partnership with Emory University. Carter Center initiatives include monitoring international elections, fighting diseases in developing countries and seeking international peace. One of the key accomplishments of the Carter Center is the near eradication of Guinea worm disease from more than three million cases in 1986 to 14 cases in 2021.
August 9, 1999 – Receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor for an American civilian.
May 14, 2002 – In a speech given in Cuba, Carter outlines his vision for improvement between the United States and Cuba regarding their trading relations. The speech is broadcast live and uncensored on Cuban state television.
October 11, 2002 – Wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
February 19, 2005 – The USS Jimmy Carter (SSN 23) is commissioned.
February 11, 2007 – Wins a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for the audio book of “Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis.” He shares the award with Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis.
April 17, 2008 – Meets with Hamas leaders in Cairo, Egypt. US and Israeli government officials object to Carter’s meeting, as both governments classify Hamas as a terrorist organization.
September 15, 2009 – Carter causes controversy with remarks on NBC Nightly News about President Barack Obama. Carter says, “An overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African-American.”
August 27, 2010 – Carter negotiates the release of US citizen Aijalon Mahli Gomes. Gomes had been imprisoned in North Korea after entering illegally in January 2010. “At the request of President Carter, and for humanitarian purposes, Mr. Gomes was granted amnesty by the chairman of the National Defense Commission, Kim Jong-Il,” the Carter Center says in a statement.
March 28, 2011 – Carter arrives in Cuba for a three-day visit, to meet with President Raul Castro.
April 26, 2011 – Visits Pyongyang, North Korea, for talks to ease tensions between North and South Korea, accompanied by former Finnish President Marti Ahtisaari, former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland and former President of Ireland Mary Robinson.
May 4, 2011 – In a Washington Post opinion piece, Carter urges the support of the Hamas-Fatah unity government.
June 24, 2012 – In a New York Times opinion piece, Carter says that the United States is no longer a champion of human rights in light of recent legislative action and drone strikes.
July 7, 2015 – His autobiography, “A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety,” is published.
August 3, 2015 – Has a “small mass” removed from his liver during surgery.
August 12, 2015 – Carter announces that “recent liver surgery revealed that [he has] cancer that now is in other parts of [his] body.” Carter says he will receive treatment at Emory University in Atlanta.
August 20, 2015 – Carter holds a press conference to announce that doctors found spots of melanoma on his brain and he will undergo treatment.
December 6, 2015 – Carter announces that according to his most recent MRI brain scan, his cancer is gone.
February 15, 2016 – Wins a Grammy Award in the Best Spoken Word Album category for the audio book version of “A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety.” It is his second Grammy win.
July 13, 2017 – Carter is admitted to a hospital in Winnipeg, Canada, after becoming dehydrated while working outdoors for Habitat for Humanity. He is released the following day.
February 10, 2019 – Wins his third Grammy Award in the Best Spoken Word Album category, this time for the audio book version of “Faith – A Journey For All.”
May 13, 2019 – The Carter Center says that the former president is recovering from surgery to repair a broken hip after falling at his home in Plains, Georgia.
June 3, 2019 – Emory University announces that Carter has become a tenured faculty member after teaching at the Atlanta-based private university for 37 years.
June 28, 2019 – Carter suggests that a full investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election would show that Donald Trump didn’t win the presidency. In response, Trump later says that Carter is a Democrat and repeating a “typical talking point,” calling him a “nice man, terrible president.”
September 17, 2019 – During a town hall at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Carter says if he were 80 years old he would not be able to handle the responsibilities of being President and jokes that he hopes there is an “age limit” on the office. The comments are especially notable as the age of the three top Democratic 2020 presidential hopefuls, who are in their 70s, has been the subject of ongoing debate.
October 6, 2019 – Carter receives 14 stitches after falling and hitting his head in his home. Hours later he travels to Nashville to speak at the Ryman Auditorium.
October 21, 2019 – Carter falls in his home and is admitted to Phoebe Sumter Medical Center for observation and treatment of a minor pelvic fracture.
November 12, 2019 – Undergoes an operation to relieve pressure on his brain caused by bleeding from his recent falls, according to the Carter Center. The center says there are no complications from the procedure. He is released from the hospital on November 27.
December 2, 2019 – In a statement, the Carter Center says that the former president has returned to the hospital over the weekend for a urinary tract infection. Carter is discharged on December 4.
September 9, 2020 – The documentary film, “Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President,” is released in theaters.
February 18, 2023 – In a statement, the Carter Center says that the former president will begin receiving hospice care at his home in Georgia.
by tyler | Nov 27, 2023 | CNN, us
Here is a look at the life of Rod Blagojevich, former governor of Illinois who served eight years in federal prison.
Birth date: December 10, 1956
Birth place: Chicago, Illinois
Birth name: Rod Blagojevich (has no middle name, uses the initial R to honor his father)
Father: Rade Blagojevich, steelworker
Mother: Millie (Govedarica) Blagojevich
Marriage: Patricia (Mell) Blagojevich (1990-present)
Children: Anne and Amy
Education: Northwestern University, B.A., 1979; Pepperdine University, J.D., 1983
Last name is pronounced Bluh-GOY-uh-vitch.
His father was a prisoner of war for four years in a Nazi camp during World War II.
1986-1988 – Assistant state’s attorney in Cook County, Illinois.
1992-1996 – Serves in the Illinois House, representing the 33rd District.
1996-2002 – US representative from Illinois’s 5th District.
November 2002 – Becomes the first Democrat elected governor of Illinois in 30 years.
January 13, 2003 – Is sworn in as the 40th governor of Illinois.
January 8, 2007 – Is sworn in for a second term as governor of Illinois.
December 9, 2008 – Is taken into federal custody on corruption charges. He is charged with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and solicitation of bribery. Blagojevich and his chief of staff, John Harris, are accused of “conspiring to obtain personal financial benefits” by leveraging his authority to appoint a US senator to replace President-elect Barack Obama.
December 30, 2008 – Blagojevich appoints former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris to fill the Senate seat vacated by Obama.
January 9, 2009 – The Illinois House of Representatives votes to impeach Blagojevich. The vote is 114-1.
January 26, 2009 – Impeachment hearings begin in the Illinois Senate. Blagojevich does not attend, choosing instead to appear on “Larry King Live,” “The View” and “Good Morning America.”
January 29, 2009 – The Illinois Senate votes unanimously to remove Blagojevich and to bar him from holding political office in Illinois again.
April 2, 2009 – Indicted on 16 felony counts by a federal grand jury.
April 14, 2009 – Blagojevich pleads not guilty.
June 13, 2009 – Appears in a Chicago comedy show “Rod Blagojevich Superstar.”
September 8, 2009 – Blagojevich’s autobiography, “The Governor” is published.
2010 – Appears as a contestant on four episodes of the “Celebrity Apprentice” reality TV show.
June 3, 2010 – Blagojevich’s trial on corruption charges begins.
August 17, 2010 – The jury in Blagojevich’s trial returns its verdict after deliberating for 14 days. He is found guilty of making false statements to federal investigators. The jury is unable to come to a decision on 23 other counts.
February 24, 2011 – A federal judge drops three of 23 corruption charges against Blagojevich.
May 2, 2011 – Blagojevich’s retrial begins.
June 27, 2011 – The jury comes back with 17 guilty verdicts, one not guilty and two counts deadlocked.
December 7, 2011 – Sentenced to 14 years in federal prison.
March 15, 2012 – Reports to Englewood Federal Correctional Institution in Colorado to begin serving a 14-year sentence.
July 15, 2013 – Blagojevich’s lawyers appeal his conviction to the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals, claiming the trial judge failed to explain to jurors that “political deal-making” can be legal and “misled the jury by failing to explain the legal distinction between campaign contributions and bribes.”
July 21, 2015 – The 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals overturns five counts against Blagojevich, saying the prosecutors did not prove that he broke the law when trying to sell Obama’s Senate seat.
August 19, 2015 – The 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals denies Blagojevich a rehearing. Blagojevich will now ask the US Supreme Court to overturn his remaining convictions and sentence.
March 30, 2016 – Two days after the Supreme Court declines to hear Blagojevich’s appeal, federal prosecutors file a motion asking a US District Judge to schedule a resentencing date for the former governor. Prosecutors will not retry Blagojevich on the five charges that were overturned by the appeals court.
August 9, 2016 – US District Judge James Zagel imposes the same 14-year sentence against Blagojevich.
September 11, 2017 – Blagojevich’s first interview since he was sent to prison is published in Chicago magazine.
November 3, 2017 – Blagojevich submits a second request to overturn his conviction and sentencing to the US Supreme Court.
June 5, 2018 – Files clemency paperwork, officially asking President Donald Trump to commute his prison sentence. The move comes days after Trump told reporters he was considering commuting Blagojevich’s sentence.
July 12, 2019 – Rev. Jesse Jackson signs a letter encouraging Trump to grant a full pardon to Blagojevich.
August 7, 2019 – Trump tells reporters he wants to commute Blagojevich’s sentence because the former governor was “treated unbelievably unfairly.” The next day Trump tweets that White House staff is continuing to review “the possibility of commuting” Blagojevich’s sentence.
February 18, 2020 – Trump announces he has commuted Blagojevich’s prison sentence, and Blagojevich is released after serving eight years of a 14-year sentence.
May 14, 2020 – Blagojevich’s podcast “Lightning Rod” debuts.
May 18, 2020 – Is disbarred by the Illinois Supreme Court.
November 5, 2021 – “Being Blago,” a four-part docuseries, is released on Hulu.
by tyler | Nov 27, 2023 | CNN, us
Here’s a look at the life of comedian and actor Bill Cosby.
Birth date: July 12, 1937
Birth place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Birth name: William Henry Cosby Jr.
Father: William Henry Sr., US Navy mess steward
Mother: Anna (Hite) Cosby
Marriage: Camille (Hanks) Cosby (January 25, 1964-present)
Children: Evin, 1976; Ensa, 1973-2018; Ennis, 1969-1997; Erinn, 1966; Erika, 1965
Education: Attended Temple University, 1961-1962; University of Massachusetts at Amherst, M.A, 1972; University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Ed.D, 1977
Military service: US Navy, 1956-1960
More than 50 women have publicly accused Cosby of raping or assaulting them over the past 40 years. The comedian vehemently denied any wrongdoing. In April 2018, after two trials, Cosby was convicted of sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in a Philadelphia suburb in 2004. After appeal, his conviction was overturned based on violation of his right to due process.
Many organizations, including educational, advertising and media, have either rescinded awards and honors, or scrubbed Cosby’s name from their websites.
Television spokesman for Jell-O for more than 25 years, beginning in 1974.
All of his children were given names beginning with an E, to represent excellence.
Nominated for 17 Grammy Awards and has won nine.
Nominated for eight Primetime Emmy Awards and won four.
1956 – Drops out of high school and enlists in the US Navy. During his time in the Navy, Cosby earns his high school diploma through a correspondence course.
1961 – Wins a track and field scholarship to Temple University. While at school, he gets his first job telling jokes while tending bar.
1962 – Leaves school and moves to New York City to work as a comedian at the Gaslight Café.
1963 – The album “Bill Cosby Is a Very Funny Fellow … Right!” is released.
1964 – The album “I Started Out as a Child” is released.
April 13, 1965 – Wins a Grammy for Best Comedy Performance for “I Started Out as a Child.”
1965-1968 – Plays Alexander Scott, an undercover CIA agent, on the NBC show “I Spy.”
1966-1968 – Wins three Best Actor Primetime Emmy Awards in a row for “I Spy.”
June 8, 1969 – Wins an Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety or Musical Program for “The Bill Cosby Special.”
1969-1971 – Plays Chet Kincaid, a physical education teacher, on the NBC program, “The Bill Cosby Show.”
1972-1984 – “Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids,” an animated show created by Cosby, runs on television.
September 20, 1984 – “The Cosby Show” debuts on NBC. Cosby plays Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable.
1984-1992 – “The Cosby Show” runs on NBC.
October 3, 1992 – Is inducted into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame. In 2018, the Academy removes all references to Cosby from their list of honorees.
1996-2000 – Stars on the television sitcom “Cosby.”
January 16, 1997 – Cosby’s only son, Ennis, is robbed and murdered on a Los Angeles highway after he stops to fix a flat tire.
July 1997 – Autumn Jackson, who claimed to be Cosby’s illegitimate daughter, is found guilty of attempting to extort $40 million dollars from him. She is later sentenced to 26 months in prison.
July 1998 – Mikhail Markhasev is convicted of Ennis Cosby’s murder. A month later he is sentenced to life in prison.
December 6, 1998 – Receives the Kennedy Center Honors. The Kennedy Center rescinds the honors in 2018.
July 9, 2002 – Is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
2003 – Receives the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the Emmy Awards.
January 2005 – Constand, a former Temple University employee, alleges that Cosby drugged and fondled her in January 2004. In February, authorities announce that Cosby will not be charged in the Constand case, citing insufficient evidence. Constand files a civil suit against Cosby in March. They settle out of court for $3.38 million, and the case is dismissed in November 2006.
October 26, 2009 – Is awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The prize is rescinded in 2018.
November 23, 2013 – Cosby’s first television comedy special in 30 years airs on Comedy Central.
November 14, 2014 – CNN interviews Barbara Bowman, who alleges that Cosby assaulted her a number of times. Cosby’s attorney, John Schmitt, states that the allegations are “decade-old” and “discredited.”
November 17, 2014 – Journalist and publicist Joan Tarshis tells CNN that Cosby sexually assaulted her 45 years ago, when she was a teenager. Tarshis joins a handful of women who have accused Cosby of sexual assault – allegations the comedian’s attorneys have repeatedly said are untrue.
November 18, 2014 – Former supermodel Janice Dickinson accuses Cosby of sexual assault, telling “Entertainment Tonight” in an interview that the comedian raped her. Cosby’s attorney Martin Singer calls Dickinson’s story “a lie” and says it contradicts her own autobiography and a 2002 New York Observer interview.
November 26, 2014 – Cosby’s alma mater, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, cuts ties with the comedian, stating, “Bill Cosby has agreed to resign as an honorary co-chair of UMass Amherst’s capital campaign. He no longer has any affiliation with the campaign nor does he serve in any other capacity for the university.”
December 1, 2014 – Cosby resigns from Temple University’s board of trustees, a position that he has held for 32 years.
December 2, 2014 – Judy Huth files a lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court, alleging that Cosby sexually assaulted her in 1974, when she was 15 years old. (The timeline is later revised to 1975, when Huth was 16.) In a pleading, Singer writes that Huth’s claims are “absolutely false.” He accuses her of engaging in extortion after Cosby rejected her “outrageous demand for money in order not to make her allegations public.”
December 4, 2014 – The Navy revokes Cosby’s title of honorary chief petty officer.
December 10, 2014 – Tamara Green, who has accused Cosby of sexually assaulting her in 1970, files a defamation lawsuit against Cosby in federal court, claiming she was called a liar after coming forward with allegations. Within a year, six additional accusers join in the lawsuit.
December 16, 2014 – Citing the statute of limitations, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office declines to charge Cosby regarding Huth’s 1970s sexual assault allegation.
January 2015 – Linda Traitz tells CNN that she and fellow accuser Therese Serignese are joining Green’s defamation lawsuit against Cosby..
February 12, 2015 – Two more women accuse Cosby of sexual assault.
May 20, 2015 – Dickinson sues Cosby for defamation.
July 6, 2015 – Newly unsealed documents reveal Cosby has admitted to getting prescription Quaaludes to give to women he wanted to have sex with. The documents, dating back to 2005, stem from a civil lawsuit filed by Constand.
July 25, 2015 – Spelman College, a historically black women’s school in Atlanta, announces it has officially terminated a professorship endowed by Cosby and his wife Camille.
December 14, 2015 – Cosby countersues seven women who are suing him for defamation in federal court, claiming they actually defamed him. Cosby is seeking unspecified damages and public retractions from seven women: Green, Serignese, Traitz, Bowman, Tarshis, Louisa Moritz and Angela Leslie.
December 21, 2015 – Cosby sues model Beverly Johnson for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress. He claims that she falsely accused him of attempted rape.
December 30, 2015 – Cosby is charged in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, with three counts of felony aggravated indecent assault in the case of Constand, who accused the TV star of assaulting her in 2004.
January 6, 2016 – The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office announces that Cosby won’t be charged in two cases. According to a charge evaluation sheet, prosecutors think neither of the two allegations could have resulted in charges within the statute of limitations.
February 19, 2016 – Cosby’s defamation lawsuit against Johnson is voluntarily dismissed.
May 16, 2016 – A lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court accuses Hugh Hefner of conspiring with Cosby in 2008 to commit sexual battery of a minor. The plaintiff, Chloe Goins, claims that Hefner “knew or should have known that Defendant Cosby….had a propensity for intoxicating and or drugging young women and taking advantage of them sexually…while they were unconscious.”
May 24, 2016 – The criminal case against Cosby in Pennsylvania is on track to go to trial, after a judge rules that there is sufficient evidence against the entertainer.
December 5, 2016 – A judge rules that Cosby’s 11-year-old deposition – in which he admitted to extramarital affairs and giving some women drugs in order to have sex with them – is admissible in his upcoming criminal trial in 2017.
December 13-14, 2016 – A pre-trial hearing is held to determine whether the testimony of 13 women who say Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted them from 1964 to 2002 may be included as evidence in his criminal case.
February 16, 2017 – A federal judge in Massachusetts dismisses a defamation lawsuit against Cosby by Katherine McKee, an actress who claimed he raped her in 1974, according to court documents.
May 16, 2017 – In an interview with Michael Smerconish on the SiriusXM POTUS channel, Cosby says that he does not plan to testify on his own behalf during his upcoming assault trial.
June 17, 2017 – After six days and more than 53 hours of jury deliberations, Cosby’s aggravated indecent assault case ends in a mistrial after a Pennsylvania jury of seven men and five women are unable to come to a unanimous decision. Prosecutors immediately announce they will retry the case.
January 22, 2018 – Cosby performs at the LaRose Jazz Club in Philadelphia. This is his first stand-up event since May 2015.
February 23, 2018 – Cosby’s daughter Ensa, 44, dies of renal disease.
March 15, 2018 – A Pennsylvania judge rules that five women will be allowed to testify during the comedian’s new trial for allegedly assaulting Constand in 2004. Prosecutors wanted 19 accusers to take the witness stand but the judge said that they could choose five out of the group. During the first trial, just one other accuser was allowed to testify against the comedian.
April 5, 2018 – The jury is seated in Cosby’s new trial, with seven men and five women.
April 26, 2018 – Cosby is convicted on all three counts of aggravated indecent assault for drugging and sexually assaulting Constand in 2004.
September 25, 2018 – Cosby is sentenced to 3-10 years in state prison for aggravated indecent assault. The following day, Cosby arrives at SCI Phoenix prison in Pennsylvania.
January 28, 2019 – Cosby enters the prison general population and is housed in a cell by himself, which a spokeswoman says is typical for the facility. He is listed as Inmate Number NN7687.
April 5, 2019 – A settlement is reached in the defamation case against Cosby involving seven women who accused him of sexual misconduct. Cosby’s spokesman, however, says his client did not authorize the settlement, which was negotiated between the plaintiffs and the insurance company, American International Group (AIG).
April 16, 2019 – In a statement, Cosby rails against insurance company AIG for an “unauthorized settlement” regarding Goins’ sexual battery lawsuit.
April 2019 – Cosby challenges an arbitration decision that mandated he pay $6.7 million in legal fees – $4.3 million of which had already been paid, $2 million by Cosby and $2.3 million by his insurer, AIG. $2.4 million remains to be paid. Originally, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan was requesting more than $9 million for its total bill, but that amount was trimmed during arbitration.
May 31, 2019 – Cosby withdraws his countersuit against the seven women who sued him for defamation in federal court.
June 25, 2019 – Cosby files an appeal of his criminal conviction, arguing that the trial was flawed because the testimony of five accusers was “strikingly dissimilar” to that of Constand.
July 25, 2019 – Dickinson’s attorney announces that they have reached a “very large settlement” with Cosby’s insurance company in Dickinson’s defamation case. Cosby’s spokesman says the insurance company settled the lawsuit despite Cosby’s objections.
September 20, 2019 – A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge sides with law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, ruling that Cosby must pay $2.74 million for unpaid compensation, interest and arbitration fees.
November 24, 2019 – In his first interview since he was sentenced to prison for sexual assault, Cosby says he doesn’t expect to express remorse when it comes time for his parole. Cosby gave National Newspaper Publishers Association’s BlackPressUSA.com the exclusive interview from SCI Phoenix, a state prison near Collegeville, Pennsylvania.
December 10, 2019 – A Pennsylvania appeals court upholds Cosby’s sexual assault conviction and rejects his argument that the case was wrongly decided against him.
June 23, 2020 – Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court rules that Cosby is allowed to appeal two key issues in his 2018 conviction on sexual assault charges. The ruling grants Cosby the ability to appeal two issues in the case. One issue focuses on the “prior bad act” witnesses who testified about alleged assaults that were not part of the charges, and the second focuses on the prior district attorney’s decision not to charge Cosby a decade ago.
May 27, 2021 – Cosby is denied parole by the Pennsylvania Parole Board, according to a May 11 letter from the board obtained by CNN. The board cites his “failure to develop a parole release plan” and a “negative recommendation by the Department of Corrections” as factors that contributed to the decision.
June 30, 2021 – Cosby is released from prison after the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania vacates his 2018 conviction on sexual assault charges and judgment of sentence. The court rules in its opinion that his due process rights were violated when Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor’s decision to not prosecute him in return for his deposition in a 2005 civil case was used against him at trial. The decision cannot be appealed by the prosecution in the state of Pennsylvania.
March 7, 2022 – The Supreme Court leaves in place an opinion by Pennsylvania’s highest court that overturned comedian Cosby’s sexual assault conviction, rejecting a bid from Pennsylvania prosecutors to review the decision.
June 21, 2022 – A Los Angeles jury finds Cosby liable in the civil case brought by Huth in 2014, a woman who claimed he sexually assaulted her as a teenager in the 1970s. The jury, comprised of eight women and four men, awards Huth $500,000 in damages.
December 30, 2022 – A woman who says she was sexually assaulted by Cosby sues him for sexual battery after five other women sued him in early December under the New York Adult Survivors Act. The lawsuit, filed in New York’s Supreme Court, alleges plaintiff Stacey Pinkerton was sexually assaulted by Cosby in 1986 when she was 21 years old.
June 14, 2023 – Nine women who have accused Cosby of sexual abuse in the past file a new lawsuit asking for a jury trial against the comedian in Nevada.
November 20, 2023 – Joan Tarshis, who previously accused Cosby of sexual assault in 2014, files a lawsuit against him under a New York law that’s set to expire this week. The lawsuit accuses Cosby of battery, assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and false imprisonment. Tarshis is seeking unspecified damages.
by tyler | Nov 27, 2023 | CNN, us
Here’s a look at the life of US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack.
Birth date: December 13, 1950
Birth place: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Full name: Thomas James Vilsack
Father: Bud Vilsack
Mother: Dolly Vilsack
Marriage: Christie (Bell) Vilsack (1973-present)
Children: Jess and Doug
Education: Hamilton College, B.A., 1972; Albany Law School J.D., 1975
Was mentioned as a possible running mate for John Kerry during the 2004 presidential election process.
Adopted as an infant from an orphanage by Bud and Dolly Vilsack.
Ran for mayor of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, after his predecessor was shot and killed at a city council meeting.
1975-1998 – Practices law.
1987-1992 – Mayor of Mount Pleasant, Iowa.
1992 – Elected to the Iowa Senate.
1994 – Wins reelection to the Iowa Senate.
1998 – Becomes the first Democrat elected governor of Iowa in more than 30 years.
January 15, 1999-January 12, 2007 – Governor of Iowa.
2004 – Chair of the Democratic Governors’ Association.
November 9, 2006 – Vilsack files a statement of candidacy to run for the White House in 2008, becoming the first prominent Democrat to do so.
February 23, 2007 – Drops out of the 2008 presidential race.
March 26, 2007 – Endorses Hillary Clinton and becomes co-chairman of her national campaign.
April 2007 – Joins Minneapolis-based international law firm Dorsey and Whitney as a managing partner.
December 17, 2008 – Is nominated by President-elect Barack Obama to be agriculture secretary.
January 21, 2009 – Is sworn in as the 30th secretary of the Department of Agriculture after a unanimous US Senate confirmation.
July 19, 2010 – Calls for the resignation of USDA official Shirley Sherrod after an excerpted video clip of Sherrod is posted online, in which Sherrod discusses an incident involving a White farmer. Vilsack contends that he made the decision without conferring with the White House.
July 21, 2010 – Vilsack apologizes to Sherrod after video of the full speech shows that her remarks from the clip were taken out of context. Vilsack offers Sherrod another job with the Department of Agriculture, which she later declines.
January 15, 2016 – President Obama names Vilsack his Cabinet-level point person to address the problem of heroin and other opiate use in rural communities.
January 13, 2017 – Vilsack steps down as agriculture secretary one week early.
February 1, 2017 – Becomes the president and CEO of the US Dairy Export Council (USDEC).
April 10, 2017 – Colorado State University announces that Vilsack and his wife, Christie Vilsack, will join the university as advisers.
February 10, 2020 – Vilsack comes forward to claim the $150,000 Powerball prize he won on January 22 in the Iowa Lottery.
February 23, 2021 – The US Senate confirms Vilsack for a second stint as agriculture secretary by a vote of 92-7. Vilsack is sworn in on February 24.
April 9, 2022 – Vilsack, who is fully vaccinated and boosted, announces he has tested positive for Covid-19 and has “mild” symptoms.
by tyler | Nov 27, 2023 | CNN, us
Here’s a look at the life of former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
Birth date: December 13, 1953
Birth place: Augusta, Georgia
Birth name: Ben Shalom Bernanke
Father: Philip Bernanke, a pharmacist
Mother: Edna (Friedman) Bernanke, a substitute teacher
Marriage: Anna (Friedmann) Bernanke (1978-present)
Children: Alyssa, June 21, 1986; Joel, December 5, 1982
Education: Harvard University, B.A. in Economics, 1975 – graduated summa cum laude, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. in Economics, 1979
Author of textbooks, scholarly articles and books on a variety of economic issues.
Previously served as the director of the Monetary Economics Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and as a member of its Business Cycle Dating Committee.
Co-winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize for Economics.
1979-1985 – Associate professor at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.
1985-1996 – Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University.
1996-2002 – Chairman of the Princeton University Economics Department and the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Economics and Public Affairs.
2002-2005 – Member of the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve System.
June 21, 2005-January 2006 – Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.
October 24, 2005 – US President George W. Bush nominates Bernanke to replace Alan Greenspan as the chairman of the Federal Reserve.
January 31, 2006 – Confirmed by the Senate to succeed Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve, Bernanke is appointed to a four-year term as chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee which expires January 31, 2010. He is also appointed to a 14-year term as a member on the Board of the Federal Open Market Committee.
February 1, 2006-January 31, 2014 – Chairman of the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve.
August 25, 2009 – US President Barack Obama nominates Bernanke for a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve.
December 16, 2009 – Named Time’s Person of the Year.
January 28, 2010 – Is confirmed by the US Senate for a second four-year term by a vote of 70-30.
February 3, 2014 – Janet Yellen is sworn in as his successor as head of the Federal Reserve. Bernanke joins the Brookings Institution’s Economic Studies program as a Distinguished Fellow in Residence.
April 16, 2015 – The New York Times reports that Bernanke has been hired by the hedge fund Citadel LLC as adviser.
April 29, 2015 – Pimco says it’s hiring Bernanke as senior adviser.
October 2015 – Bernanke’s memoir, “The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and its Aftermath,” is published.
2015-2016 – Vice president of the American Economic Association.
2017-2019 – President of the American Economic Association.
June 16, 2020 – Bernanke, Yellen and over 150 economists sign a letter published by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth asking Congress to provide additional economic relief in response to Covid-19.
July 17, 2020 – Bernanke and Yellen testify in a remote hearing with the House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, urging for further congressional relief.
April 26, 2021 – Is elected to serve as a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
May 17, 2022 – Bernanke’s book, “21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19,” is published.
October 10, 2022 – Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig are awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for their work on banks and financial crises.
July 28, 2023 – The Court of the Bank of England announces that Bernanke will review the Bank’s economic forecasting.
