California: Trade office rebuked [lawmakers want perjury charges if it continues to lie]

Orange County Register ^ | May 26, 2003 | Kimberly Kindy

[John Jorsett]

The directors of California's 12 foreign-trade offices should face perjury charges if they continue to produce false or misleading accounts to the Legislature of how they brokered businesses deals, key lawmakers said Sunday.

The reform call is in response to an Orange County Register investigation into the trade offices - located around the world to increase exports and investment to California - that found more than $40 million in false or overblown deals. In case after case, business owners said they were surprised the state included them in annual reports as "success stories'' when they did little or nothing to help them.

[Izzy Dunne]

should face perjury charges if they continue to produce false or misleading accounts

How many do you get before facing charges???

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

should face perjury charges if they continue to produce false or misleading accounts

How many do you get before facing charges???

Ask Bill Clinton.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

The California Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency, meanwhile, acknowledged flaws in the way its trade offices account for their successes and said it is working on a set of reforms to assure accurate reporting.

Typical of liberals. They cheat in everyway they can (campaign finance) and when caught demand reform, as if the problem is with the law rather than the law breaker. Same with guns.

[bruinbirdman]

How many do you get before facing charges???

How many got fired?

yitbos

[thegreatbeast]

This subterfuge is SOP for these kind of offices. It occurs at every level of gov't: local, state and federal.
Read "America Unmade" by Diane Alden at Newsmax:
"At the Manufacturing Show, U.S. Commerce Secretary Don Evans spoke about the “great things” that American companies were doing to compete in the global economy. He mentioned Motorola as one example.

Motorola, of course, has spent $1 billion in transferring its production to China. It is about to invest another $90 million in research and development in China. Very little of Motorola is now in the United States. Yet Evans considered that a success story. Problem is that not only has Motorola transferred jobs and production to China, it has also transferred crucial technology as well."
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/5/22/15302.shtml

The only concern of these officials is justifying their own place on the payroll.

[Iris7]

Bates likened the issue to debacles such as Enron that have exposed troubles with corporate America's accounting practices.

"They inflated the returns on the companies' products or stock,'' Bates said. "They were all taken to task as felons. I don't think there should be a different standard for our state government."

It would be utterly fabulous if government employees were treated as felons when they lie about the usefulness of their work. Wildly, insanely unlikely, of course, but fabulous. We could start them at twenty years to life.

[bruinbirdman]

Motorola, of course, has spent $1 billion in transferring its production to China.

I guess they were doing their job, helping companies, especially in foreign markets:

"Motorola Inc., the world's second-largest mobile phone maker, will have to work harder to keep its market-leading position in China as it faces a growing threat from local competitors, analysts said.

"Over the last several years, the Chicago-area based company has established itself as a serious player in the world's largest market with 200 million mobile phone users.

"It built factories and established research and development facilities specifically to meet the needs of the China market. It has also appointed Chinese nationals in key executive positions there, giving them a wide-berth in making business decisions. . . . Yukari Iwatani, yahoo

yitbos

[thegreatbeast]

You aren't following this too well, are you?
The companies like Motorola are for all intents and purposes leaving the US. That they bought into some fantasy of selling to billions of peasants is besides the point, don't you see? What are the Chinese going to buy exactly?

[bruinbirdman]

The subject of this thread is trade agencies in California falsifying information, and reports. My reply was not to the to the subject of this thread but to someone who changed the subject to jobs leaving the state or the country. I don't see anywhere in the Motorola reply where that company is causing or encouraging jobs to leave the USA. To the contrary, Motorola, in shoring up its competitiveness overseas, is probably insuring its viability to retain jobs in the US in the future and not forfeit them because of bankruptcy caused by foreign interests.

yitbos

[WaterDragon]

Bump for the BBMan.