Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Is It Any Wonder

Carolyn Bothwell Doran, 45, moved up from a part-time bookkeeping position to chief operating officer of Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, before being hauled down for her past criminal record.

Transgressions include . .

*wounding her boyfriend with a gunshot to the chest for which she received probation.
*a hit-and-run accident for which she served seven months in jail.
*theft (penalty unknown).
*writing bad checks (penalty unknown).
*multiple drunken-driving convictions (penalties unknown).
*credit card forgery (penalty unknown).

This long list of criminal offenses might tend to throw into question her involvement in a former roommate's poisoning of a man for insurance money (Doran helped investigators by secretly recording incriminating conversations with the supposed perpetrator), and the honeymoon drowning of her newlywed husband in the Cayman Islands.

With a woman like this as their C.O.O., perhaps is it any wonder the Wikipedia sections related to domestic violence read more like an anti-male Feminist tract than factual encyclopedic entries.

From "Former Wikipedia Officer Found to Have Long Criminal Record" by Brian Bergstein, Associated Press

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