Posted by VLC on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:34 | #

The Register reported Doran’s criminal record includes four convictions for driving under the influence, two of check fraud and petty larceny, one hit and run with fatality, and one charge of unlawful wounding for shooting former boyfriend Philip L. Brown in the chest in 1990. He later asked that no charges be made against her and they resumed dating each other.

That wuss was probably raised without a father and sticked to a destructive woman because he was too insecure to reject her.

We need Fight Clubs

Posted by DavidL on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:30 | #

Curse you James !

Now you’ll have every crazed non-white coming to America in search of his on
demented flaxen hair vixen.
This is not going to help solve our immigration problems.

A thousand lashes with a wet noodle!!!! ( LOL )

Posted by John E. Smith on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:26 | #

When Carolyn Bothwell Doran was hired as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Florida-based Wikimedia Foundation, she had a criminal record in three other states - Virginia, Maryland, and Texas - and she was still on parole for a DUI (driving under the influence of alcohol) hit and run.

Her record also included convictions for passing bad checks, theft, petty larceny, additional DUIs, and unlawfully wounding her boyfriend with a gun shot to the chest.

Doran left the charitable Foundation in July 2007, after another DUI arrest and a violation of her probation. Press efforts to contact Doran were unsuccessful, and her lawyer declined to comment.

The Wikimedia Foundation did not officially announce Doran’s departure, even among the close-knit Wikipedia community. In September, when chairman of the board Florence Devouard was publicly asked why Doran had left her post, she suggested that the decision was Doran’s, and in an interview with The Register, the Foundation’s lawyer, Mike Godwin, was adamant that Doran resigned her post.

Godwin also said that he and the Foundation are still unaware of Doran’s criminal record: “We’ve never had any documentation of any criminal record on Carolyn Doran’s part at all,” he told us. “As far as I’m concerned, I have no direct knowledge of [her criminal record] yet…We have, in our records, no evidence of any such thing.”

Meanwhile, an audit of the Foundation’s finances - which was originally due for release in September, according to the Foundation website - is still pending. “We’ve gone through a whole lot of growth over the last year, including staffing up, so our audit is in progress,” Godwin said. “It’s very hard for us to give an exact ETA on it, but we expect it in a few weeks.” He also said that the audit had been delayed by the Foundation’s planned move to San Francisco.

The Wikimedia Foundation relies on public contributions and grants to fund its operations, and all contributions qualify as charitable deductions
Before Doran was hired as COO, she worked for the Foundation through a temp agency, serving for “a few months” as a part-time accountant or bookkeeper. When she moved into the COO post, according to the Wikimedia Foundation website, her fiscal duties included ensuring effective audit trails, approving expenditures, providing proper fiscal record-keeping and reporting, and submitting monthly financial statements to the board of directors.

“I haven’t seen this particular announcement before (it was issued before I came on board),” Mike Godwin told us, referring to the announcement of Doran’s hiring as COO, “but what strikes me about it is that [Chairman Florence Devouard] is expressly noting that the COO position as defined will be ‘re-evaluated’ as the board progresses to a decision on how best to fill the Executive Director position.”

Four months after Doran’s hiring, on May 20th, she was arrested by the Treasure Island, Florida police for driving while under the influence and driving while her license was suspended or revoked. This was at least her fourth DUI in ten years, which is a third degree felony in Florida. She paid a $5,250 bond and was released that same day.

Fifteen days later, she flew to Amsterdam for a Wikimedia Foundation board meeting, and when she returned to the US, she was stopped by customs and immigration. The officer who spoke to her, Joe Smagowicz, declined to provide us with any details on the interview.

On July 4 - an American holiday nearly a month after the return flight from Amsterdam - the Wikimedia Foundation passed a private resolution concerning Carolyn Doran, and she was soon removed from the official Foundation staff list. A month later, she was arrested and jailed by the Pinellas Park, Florida police after a warrant was issued by the sheriff in Loudoun County, Virginia.

“There was a warrant put out for her arrest for violating her probation, and extradition was nationwide,” says Captain Sanfield Forseth, of the Pinellas Park police department.

According to Jo Ellen Rackleff, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Correction’s office of public affairs, the warrant was issued at least in part because Doran had violated her parole with her flight to Amsterdam.