Computer Probe Is Widening

LA Times ^ | 05/03/02 | DAN MORAIN and NANCY VOGEL

[gubamyster]

SACRAMENTO -- California Highway Patrol officers moved in Thursday to halt shredding at the state's information technology department, and Gov. Gray Davis suspended the agency's chief amid a widening investigation of the state's multimillion-dollar computer contract with Oracle Corp.

As those developments were unfolding in the Capitol, Davis' director of e-government, Arun Baheti, quit.

His resignation came one day after he acknowledged to Davis aides that he had personally accepted a $25,000 Oracle check for the governor's reelection committee, which reported receiving the money two weeks after the state signed the $95-million computer software deal.

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[Angelique]

Oraclegate sounds good to me.

[Commiewatcher]

Wall St. took Whoreacle apart last week, it broke some major technical support at around $8.50/share at decent volume. If those technicals will just cooperate that sucker is headed for $6, maybe even $4.50. Have a nice week Larry.

[Toidylop]

Isn't a Davis administration reporting to a Lockyer AG pretty much like a Clinton/Reno arrangement? "We are investigating and cannot comment on ongoing investigations...please report on something else while we cover this up."

Check this thread from Bloomberg News "Davis ($25K) and Lockyer ($50K) both took campaign donations from Oracle when the contract was awarded. The company and Davis have said the donation was unrelated to the contract. Lockyer said he will conduct a fair investigation."

Sigh... California now officially becomes Banana Republic of the left coast.

[Madame Dufarge]

The personnel actions came as The Bee learned that a top Davis adviser sought details of the ill-fated computer software contract about a week before the pact was signed last year, indicating she would have to brief Davis on the deal.

The sought-after details being, "Is the check in the mail yet?"

This story is absolutely fascinating, it reads like a chapter from The Godfather. Layers of insulation between the Don and the crime, loyal soldiers being sacrificed for the Family - unbelievable!

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for this good news:

Wall St. took Whoreacle apart last week, it broke some major technical support at around $8.50/share at decent volume. If those technicals will just cooperate that sucker is headed for $6, maybe even $4.50. Have a nice week Larry.

Now that the number 2 way of getting business, bribing state/county/city and probably federal employees can no longer be used, Whoreacle could be in more real trouble.

They lost their number 1 way of getting business, the moment that GW was sworn in as president. When #42 became X42 and the Whoreacle Government New Market Manager, Jake Reno became unemployed. Whoreacle was in real trouble. Just track their stock from Feb 2001 to now.

Any company that was a big time donor to X42 and used Arthur Andersen creative book cooking is in real trouble! Loral, Double Crossing, Whoreacle and the list and the beat goes on. Their falling out of grace will hammer the DIA, SPY and QQQ for most of this year. Many of these companies had little real research as most spent research money funding RATs like Davis and the Clintoons. Hopefully a year from now Whoreacle will look like the Salon.com stock, Loral and Double Crossing stocks.

[AndyJackson]

Democrats are such poor businessmen. $25,000 for a $95,000,000 contract! "Finder's" fees for a legitiamate deal run from 2% on up,with 5% not being unreasonable at all - and that's for a straight deal. I don't know what the going rate is for a crooked deal, but I would bet its a whole lot more than that. $25,000 doesn't even cover expenses like publicists and attorneys, overseas travel expenses to avoid service of summons, lackeys and flakcatchers and payoffs to fellow dems to lie and cover for you, and ultimately some private investigator to "lose" the judge's cat.

[Liz]

Democrats are such poor businessmen. $25,000 for a $95,000,000 contract! "Finder's" fees for a
legitimate deal run from 2% on up, with 5% not being unreasonable ... and that's for a straight deal.

Yeah, but to the warped DumboCrats, under-the-table contributions are straight deals....just business as usual.
Besides, I'd hazard a guess that the $25,000 was either a down payment or perhaps the monthly take the pols
use as pocket change, probably to take their girlfriends and their wives on a cruise, or to pay off gambling debts.

[hattend]

You're right. Time to bring some adults in come November. Go Simon Go!

BTTT

[Grampa Dave]

Exactly. There is no way that Benito II would expose himself for just $25,000.

Did Whoreacle loan its only two real programmers and other staff people to work for Davis. This is an old trick for Rat Companies.

Or the best sneaky way is very simple. They open up special offices in their complexes or rent offices that no one else knows about. Then they staff them with corporate Rats. Then they can work for Rat politicians while getting paid by the corporation. No money changes hands, but in computer communication and data basing, setting up voter and donor data bases would be expensive if Davis did it in his re election office.

However if a computer database company based in the SillyCon Valley set up a hidden suite of offices and used their employees for this expensive task. There would be no donation money trail to follow. Expensive work gets done for free.

Liz, anyone, do you know of any computer database design company who might do this service for "free" for Benito II Davis?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the ping!

This thread has been active with some great additions. The OC Register this Sat morning has a great headline ____"Rattled Davis wants to toss out Oracle deal"

I'll post it ,has a comment from the Simon campaign, in a bit.

[d14truth]

"Did Whoreacle loan its only two real programmers and other staff people to work for Davis? This is an old trick for Rat Companies."

GENSA

[d14truth]

Gray Davis finds 'Data'--

[d14truth]

One of the 'real' programmers???

Resume--Mari Cobb (Linked as info only, no opinion expressed)

GENSA CORPORATION, January 1996 – present

Independent consultant to Gensa.

Mentor and technical lead at California Department of Insurance on Oracle Designer web-deployed forms and reports project for an enterprise Fraud Tracking System. Also developed budget tracking system in Oracle client/server. February 2000 – January 2002.

"Went live September 2001 and resulted in huge savings as it processed all the World Trade Center insurance claims."

Mentor and technical lead at California State Treasurer’s Department on Oracle Designer/Oracle Developer client/server and a little web-server generator project for a Debt Advisory System. December 1998 - January 1999. (Is in production)---When did the $95 million Oracle come through?

Analyst and technical lead at the California Department of Motor Vehicles Motor Carrier Permit Program on Oracle Designer/ Oracle Developer project from July 1996 - June 1997. (Is in production)

Sole development consultant to Gensa (I originally subcontracted to SAIC, then Nanran) designing and developing a Cost Accounting application for California Department of Motor Vehicles using Oracle Designer, Oracle Developer Forms, SQL Loader scripts using Excel, Oracle Discoverer from December 1996 – July 1997 (Is in production).
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GENSA's invoicing to the State might be substantial???

[Grampa Dave]

Keep posting these nice finds.

Besides informing us, those who have a public voice often come here for real research on a mess like this.

[d14truth]

You might want to develop a resume like that in reply #53. Haven't got a the 'revenue stream' figured out yet, appears it could be lucrative, maybe even obscene, as nobody's talking. The 'taxpayer' as customer, contracts as good as 'gold', or 'gray', anyway.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

GENSA

Search with Google turns up this:

Bob Shallit -- Bee Columnist

Published 5:00 a.m. PDT Saturday, October 27, 2001

A Fairfield software company that does extensive work for the state is relocating its headquarters to Sacramento later this month.

Gensa Corp. and its 24 employees will be operating out of the Crowne Corporate Center in Natomas as of Oct. 30, says Robert Lutolf, the firm's CEO.

Lutolf say the company began looking for new space in the Fairfield area in July but found that prices there remained high despite slowing business in the north Bay Area.

"We started looking in Sacramento and found prices were better there, and, since that's where most of our business is, we decided to go there," says Lutolf, who currently serves as a director of the Solano Economic Development Corp.

The company, with about $2 million in annual sales, does a lot of work for state agencies. One contract was to develop a system for the Department of Motor Vehicles to track permits and fees paid by tractor-trailer trucks.

Another contract, non-state, involved connecting the five offices of a company called Canine Companions for Independence and establishing a database to keep track of the dogs it has trained to help people with disabilities.

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The Bee's Bob Shallit can be reached at (916) 321-1049 or