Hmmm... “You Wouldn’t Find Any Finer Christian People Than These People.”

At the end of this article...



American Charged in Haiti Had Some Troubles in Idaho
By WILLIAM YARDLEY New York Times
Published: February 4, 2010

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MERIDIAN, Idaho — The leader of the group of Americans charged on Thursday with abducting children in Haiti is an Idaho businesswoman with a complicated financial history that involves complaints from employees over unpaid wages, state liens on a company bank account and lawsuits in small claims court.

The leader, Laura Silsby, defaulted last July on the mortgage on a house in an unfinished subdivision here in Meridian, a suburb of Boise, according to the Ada County Tax Assessor’s Office. Yet in November, Ms. Silsby registered a new nonprofit, the New Life Children’s Refuge, at the address of the house, which she bought in 2008 for $358,000.

New Life Children’s Refuge is the name of the orphanage Ms. Silsby and the nine other Americans charged in Haiti said they had planned to establish in the Dominican Republic.

Ms. Silsby lost the house in Meridian to foreclosure on Dec. 7, records show, and it now stands empty, with signs in the yard promoting a foreclosure sale. “I get mail for her all the time,” said LaChelle Bohner, who lives two doors down from the house. Ms. Bohner said the mail included collection notices.

Ms. Silsby and her business, Personal Shopper, which provides shopping services for Internet customers, have faced multiple legal claims. According to state records and officials, Personal Shopper has been named 14 times in complaints from employees over unpaid wages. Among the reasons cited by the employees for having not been paid were “no money for payroll” and “fully investor funded and investors have been hit hard by the economy.”

Employees won nine of the cases, forcing Personal Shopper to pay nearly $31,000 in wages and $4,000 in fines. The Idaho Department of Labor initially put liens on a company bank account to get the money. “They didn’t like that so they said: ‘How much do we owe? We’ll pay it,’ ” said Bob Fick, a spokesman for the department, adding that unpaid wage complaints were not uncommon.

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More: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/world/americas/05idaho.html

:shrug:

most "Christian" people are probably even worse than her. Whenever I hear someone say "He's a good Christian", my next thought is "He's a slimeball".

:hi: cool...

Christians are like everybody else - some good, some bad, some awful, some saintly.

Christianity, like other religions, is about relationship with God and one's fellow man, and is not about always managing to live up to high expectations.

I don't think much of Christianists like Ms. Silsby, but I sure know some fine people who are Christians.

Or something like that...

It's amazing how so many of these "Christians" conflate their own self interest with God's Will.

stuff up with me, my immediate reaction is "How much are you looking for?"

Anyone who seriously believes in the Sky King always forces me to question their sanity.

There is exactly as much proof that Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny exist than that god does, but you'd be locked away for claiming the first two are real, and insisting others respect your belief. And it's two thousand and fucking ten.

The world is taking FOREVER to grow up.