“Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.” Mahatma Gandhi
Criminal Justice Department meeting minutes – Ghost Minutes – 8-29-14
A story of cover up by people who were not aware they had been audio recorded.
(Written by Roger Burton)
8-29-14 - Dalecki, at a dept meeting, wrote on the white board “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by error or memory lapse.” (exhibit 542) This is a bastardization of the famous quote by Robert J. Hanlon “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” Dalecki changes stuff, and there are reasons he does.
Aug 29, 2014
department meeting - Audio recording (audio exhibit A10) (excerpt showing the
vote – A10a) (Partial Transcript
A10b)
Meeting minutes presented by defense as minutes of the August 29, 2014 meeting. Dkt 42-78, Dkt 37-15 (exhibit F) The minutes do not accurately reflect the actual meeting.
Burton doesn’t
remember making the comments the minutes state and Rex
Reed probably didn’t say the entry about the wide net. (I’d need to
listen to the audio to be sure.) The “wide net” statement in the minutes
is what Throop used to justify her changing of the job description without
asking the department. Maybe she inserted Reed’s comment in the minutes
for this purpose, after the fact.
The minutes
submitted by defense are very different from the minutes that Dalecki
distributed to the department on December 17, 2014 10:28:04 AM – (exhibit 685) (685a - CJ Dept minutes 8-29-14) Hmmm.
Why did it take 3 and a half months to finally distribute the meeting
minutes? Why are the minutes presented
during discovery in a federal lawsuit so different from the minutes distributed
to the department? Hmmm.
Another interesting thing is that the minutes seem to inaccurately quote from bylaws. The sentences don’t make sense. What do the bylaws actually say? Hmmm.
The meeting
minutes were probably doctored to cover up lies. Listening to the
audio will shed light on this. Doctoring meeting minutes seems to be
common practice at corrupt UW Platteville.
The minutes presented as evidence state: “It was agreed that it would be best to select someone (preferably a department chair) from outside of the department who is a neutral party, but still has a vested interest in the department.” Dean Throop selected Tim Zauche to chair the search. He is not a department chair, had no vested interest in the department and Throop knew he was not neutral. Because of his bias in favor of Dalecki Throop asked him to avoid contact with Dalecki during the search. Hmm.
December 15, 2014 7:44 AM - Dalecki asked Rice for the
meeting minutes of Sept meeting. (CJ_Dept_mins_8-14-email)
December 15, 2014 8:28:24 AM – Rice emails the 8/29/14 dept meeting minutes to Dalecki saying “Mike, I don't
think you officially "approved" these so you might want to check
first.” (CJ_Dept_mins_8-14-email)
(CJ_Dept_mins_8-14).
Three and a half months after the meeting was conducted and after Burton had
alleged Solar violated policy Dalecki probably “changed” the minutes. If
we find the official minutes we’ll probably find that
it says that the department discussed the job description. (falsification
of records – listen to the audio) Note: minutes for the special meeting with Throop
were delivered in discovery (Dkt
37-15 pg 20-22).
December 17,
2014 10:28:04 AM – I sent an email to Dalecki asking him to “Please include in
the minutes from yesterday meetings that I abstained from approving the August
meeting minutes. You did not check if anyone voted no (you kept your head down)
and you did not ask if anyone wanted to abstain (as it is usually
done).” [corrupt vote] He
never responded to my request. (exhibit 685) Dr.
Burton’s email can be confirmed by listening to the audio of the meeting (audio
exhibit A31).
December 22, 2014 10:30:27 AM- (Subpoena-Rice) - Rice
forwards to Dalecki the CJ dept mtg
minutes Dec 14. The minutes
state that the 8-29-14 minutes were approved but did not include Dr. Burton’s
request of December 17, 2014 10:28:04. (CJ_department_mtgDec_14)
This short story includes a homework
assignment:
Listen to the audio (audio exhibit A10) with copies of each of the two versions of the minutes handy. See if you can find things on the minutes submitted to court (Dkt 42-78, Dkt 37-15 (exhibit F)) that were never actually discussed at the meeting. Once you find those “ghost minute points” – search through the online documents to find out why the minutes were written in that way. I have not had time to do this yet myself but I’m sure you will find something if you look. I almost always do. Skeletons are buried in shallow graves at UW Platteville.