Accounting firm acknowledged it could send the documents by e-mail but refused on the phone, said to go to the company's office.
Company wouldn't let me in the office, blamed Thanksgiving, and lied about the office being closed when it obviously was not.
We're talking about sending an e-mail with a PDF in the middle of a business day when employees were clearly at work in the office. That's it. E-mail can be sent from anywhere in the world. And the accounting firm was willing and able to send it, just not willing to comply with the law because its client said not to.
I don’t think it was obviously open - Just because it was staffed doesn’t mean it was a regular work day.
You’d have to read the law very closely but as someone who has had a trespassing ticket and even went to court, you will likely find no sympathy nor cure by trespassing, nor would the average cop care. I would not be surprised if the doorman telling you to fuck off was good enough to count as a refusal to provide documents, which would help your case down the road but would automatically place you trespassing
This has nothing to do with Summers being an economist and everything to do with the fact that he used to run the parent agency of the IRS. Summers is the least sensible board pick imaginable unless one takes this fact and the coming regulatory catastrophe into account.
>This has nothing to do with Summers being an economist and everything to do with the fact that he used to run the parent agency of the IRS.
It has literally nothing to do with that. The reason he's on the board now is because D'Angelo wanted him on it. You could have a problem with that, but you can't use his inclusion as evidence that the board lost.
Hey I know something about this! I just mailed my organization's RRF-1 a couple of days ago. The author of this post seems to be confused. My organization is on the same fiscal year as OpenAI, and our RRF-1 had to be mailed by November 15th. That explains the supposed "six month" delay. Second, if it's mailed on November 15th, it might not have even been received yet, let alone processed. This post feels like grasping at straws on the basic facts, setting aside the fact that it just doesn't make any sense to imagine a board member filling out the RRF-1 and going "oh wait, was there financial fraud?" the morning of November 15th. (That's ... not how the world works? Under CA law, any nonprofit with 2M of more in revenue has to undergo an audit, which is typically completed before filling out the 990, and the 990 is a pre-req for submitting the RRF-1. That's where you'd expect to catch this stuff, and the board's audit committee would certainly be involved in reviewing the results well in advance.)
The six-month delay is probably due to an automatic extension if you get an extension from the IRS, and also, you can file the form electronically, in which case mail delays are not a problem. But neither of those issues is the point. The point is that the form needed to be filed at all, and representations needed to be made accordingly.
OpenAI handled their audit years ago and hasn't had another one since according to their filings. So that does not seem like it would have been an issue this year.
Take a look at the top of the RRF-1 for the instructions on when it's due. Also, the CA AG's website says that OpenAI's was due on May 15th. They just have been filing six months later each year.
It sounds like Sam wanted to turn OpenAI into Apple with an app store and revenue sharing and hardware designed by Jony Ive—except in about one year instead of the ~30 it took Steve Jobs. This alone could land the company in hot water with the California Attorney General given the non-profit charter. If a single dollar was invested in making any of that a reality, that would count as a misuse of non-profit funds and lead to serious problems when it came time to file Form RRF-1, scheduled to be filed yesterday, the day he was fired. Everything else is sort of besides the point.
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I never claimed he copied code line by line, and that issue was never litigated. I never even sued Mark. So I definitely didn't "los[e] that one in court."
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I made Mark aware of this general type of problem in April 2005. In writing. With a warning about violating the FTC Act. Learning about Cambridge Analytica ten years later would have been at least the second time he heard about a friend-of-friend data breach. https://www.plainsite.org/documents/amjxp/facebook-origins-t...
> I made Mark aware of this general type of problem in April 2005. In writing. With a warning about violating the FTC Act.
That's actually pretty amazing considering how long back it was. It's a shame something wasn't done then. Was this an email he responded to? How was it communicated?
