Kelly, Lima, Becker and Workplace Harassment When Edzo and Frankie blew up the airwaves last week it may have been to distract the members from asking why Kurt Becker left the IAFF so swiftly.

and the “independent” board toes the line This week Ed “Edzo” Kelly and Frank “Frankie” Lima got busy publishing a letter signed by the “independent board” and posting a video regarding the pending federal lawsuit involving the IAFF Financial Corporation. They referred to the baseless allegations of Jack Hughes, a…

Or just more fluff and suck up? While many know that Ed Kelly and Frank Lima are deeply involved with the IAFF’s disaster of a financial corporation, less well known is that there are eight so-called “independent directors” as well.

Securities and Exchange Commission subpoenas IAFF The IAFF is back in the news with last week’s resignation of the Financial Corporation’s (FC) Chief Operating Officer (COO) Kurt Becker.

Risk and the rich Much of the world was transfixed when the Titan submersible went missing on a tourist trip to the ill-fated Titanic lying 300 miles off the coast of Nova Scotia. It helped that there were early reports of a 96-hour air supply allowing a kind of Times…

…But Dolly takes the day Friday night was with fifth graders after they had had a full day of touring. Tired they were but their rockets re-ignited after dinner and dessert. First stop was the White House and as we walked up Pennsylvania Avenue I took them over to the…

Divas-on-Wheels Here in Washington, D.C., we are mid-way through the spring season as droves of students, mainly eighth-graders, happily take the city over, an occupying legion dressed in the ubiquitous bucket hats and with wraparound sunglasses popular 30 years ago, thus proving that nothing really changes.

Your money and your life. He said it would be different When Ed “Edzo” Kelly dropped the dime on then IAFF president Harold Schaitberger, there was hope he would set a new course for our seriously squalid union. Kelly had reached out to the IRS and the Justice Department with…

Becker front and center Jack Hughes, a finance professional hired by the IAFF-FC to create an investment program, was terminated by them one day after sending a complaint to the Securities and Exchange Commission related to unethical practices. He later filed a Federal lawsuit in which he alleges wrongful termination…