Infamous and Unlucky

The Infamous and Otherwise Unlucky of Whittier College from Dick Nixon to Nicola Jagessar

Richard M. Nixon

Fred Anderson, Whittier College's preferred best-known alumnus since the Watergate scandal, has had to resign from the Apple, Inc. Board, which he joined after retiring as Apple's CFO, and agree to pay a $150,000 fine to the SEC for false financial filings and inadequate controls while Apple's CFO. Anderson, who made more than $10 million from sales of backdated options, also has to pay $3.5 million, the difference between the profit Anderson took and the profit he'd have made based on actual option dates, plus interest.

New Apple Board member Al Gore headed an internal probe of that corporation's options practices as the options backdating scandal brewed, and shared findings with the SEC and federal prosecutors. While Anderson's agreement with the Securities & Exchange Commission does not restrict Anderson's activities, his long relationship with Apple, Inc. is over, and Anderson's reputation is appropriately permanently tarnished.

There is much speculation that the SEC's lenient treatment of Anderson indicates that he is now available as a witness in the continuing probes of the Apple options scandal. Anderson has already blamed Apple head Steve Jobs for the backdating of Apple options, which claim has brought a terse rebuke from the Apple Board. The bottom line is that Fred Anderson knew that what he was doing was wrong, and his projection of responsibility for his wrongdoing shows a clear lack of remorse. A dirty trick is a dirty trick is a dirty trick, no matter who does or doesn't opine that a dirty trick is ok, and individuals conducting their careers ethically know better than to act unethically or illegally.

Anderson is being cast as Apple's 'Fredo' in blogs complete with the appropriate Godfather clip. Meanwhile, the U. S. Attorney General's investigation of the Apple options scandal continues...

Search Fred Anderson at www.bloomberg.com to see 'Ex-Apple Finance Chief to Settle SEC Options Probe' and other articles on Fred Anderson and the Apple options backdating scandal.

Henry Richard Gray went to Whittier College to play ball, but started drinking heavily and using drugs at the College and ended up working at a post office, even though Whittier graduated Gray with a bachelor degree in political science. Gray's family has clearly been dysfunctional, his mother's record includes a felony conviction, and his sister has been on parole for a felony drug conviction in Texas. In 1979, six years after being graduated by Whittier College, Gray, then beyond the College's sphere of influence, finally went too far: After blackening his wife's eye and taking car keys from Jacqueline Gray at her workplace, Henry Gray went home, to Hawthorne.

Meanwhile, Ronnie Waddell, with whom Jacqueline Gray was then staying, saw Jacqueline's battered face and insisted that the car keys be retrieved as well as stating that Henry Gray should be taught a lesson. Waddell and his ex-wife, Jacqueline Gray, then called Henry Gray to advise him that they were coming to the Gray residence to retrieve the car keys.

Henry Gray met his wife and Ronnie Waddell outside the Grays' home, where the keys were returned, and where Waddell restated that Henry Gray should be taught a lesson. Waddell took a step toward Henry Gray, and Gray pulled out a concealed handgun. Waddell responded by saying he wasn't afraid of Gray's "little gun", and Gray then shot the unarmed Waddell, in the face, fatally. In 1980, Gray was consequently convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to 15 years to life.

Both Gray Davis and Arnold Schwarzenegger subsequently reversed parole board recommendations to parole Henry Richard Gray. On the occasion of Gov. Schwarzenegger's second reversal of a parole board recommendation to release Henry Richard Gray, the convict went to the courts for relief. The California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Three, has recently ruled favorably on Gray's petition for a writ of habeas corpus, and he will be paroled from prison after serving 27 years for the murder he committed.

The Court of Appeal panel is certainly a more objective finder of fact than are politically-motivated politicians. As the Appellate panel reminds, "[P]arole is the rule, rather than the exception, and conviction for second degree murder does not automatically render one unsuitable..." (Gray was 27 when he was sent to prison; he is now 54 years old.) Henry Richard Gray was a bully, and he was so afraid of being taught a lesson for being a bully that he shot the man who appeared to him to be about to teach him that lesson.

It took eleven years in prison before Gray stopped using drugs (some commentary on penal system corruption as well as the difficulty of ending, even under the greatest duress, habits so casually acquired when one's young on a college campus), and then stopped doing things like making false filings with the IRS (some commentary on the ethics Gray picked up in college), and eventually began earning positive evaluations by Corrections psychologists and parole boards, finally evidently remade himself - suitable for parole. Let's wish Henry Richard Gray success in adjusting to reality outside a prison setting, that after all is our best protection, and pray for Ronnie Waddell, a man who evidently gave his life for the belief that we need to confront bullies. Waddell unfortunately didn't know that Whittier College bullies are sometimes shooters, and that lack of information cost Ronnie Waddell his life.

Henry Richard Gray Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus:
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This website has been sent photos of Whittier College students 'playing' with handguns, one of those students a friend of Nicola Jagessar. We urge everyone, especially those associated with Whittier College, to take note that weapons and shootings are part of the Whittier reality.

James Lee Ash, Jr.

James Lee Ash, Jr. was Whittier College President from 1989 - 1999. As soon as Ash left the can do no wrong if you're a member Whittier College sphere of influence, he ran afoul of the law, repeatedly... This is how Whittier College sets you up for the hardest falls once you've gone out into the real world...

In northern Nevada it seems, law enforcement protects people, enforces laws. Nevada courts not only sentenced James Lee Ash, Jr. for repeated drug law and probation violations, but also made a no contact order barring Ash from any further contact with Travis Jay Lewis, 18, and an extraordinary stay away order barring Ash from contact with any and all males under the age of 21.

The Ash cases make the former New Life Church founder Rev. Ted Haggard and Rep. Mark Foley and other offenders in the Washington Pages Scandals look like the proverbial lesser evils.

When arrested the first time in Nevada, Ash lied to the police, first claiming to be an uncle, then mentor, and then counselor, on the basis of Ash's ordination as a Presbyterian minister, which had lapsed and will not be renewed, of one of the two 18 year old boys involved in Ash's first Nevada arrest, and about the methamphetamine, paraphernalia, and marijuana at the scene. The police report of that first Ash arrest in Nevada noted a "weird uncle relationship."

Ash and Lewis were using a resort room registered in both their names, and a Sierra Nevada College vehicle. Ash had to resign as President of Sierra Nevada, like Whittier, a small liberal arts college. Ash was later arrested in relation to a disturbance with a "roommate" at a Nevada apartment complex, as well as for subsequent drug and probation violations.

Ted Haggard said of what newspapers called the Reverend's "drug fueled trysts" with the male prostitute who outed Haggard, "There's a part of my life so repulsive and dark that I have been warring against it all my adult life." That is to say, Haggard, like Ash, has been exhibiting enduring character traits, not sudden interests. What was James Ash, Jr. doing at Whittier College, for a decade?

Ash's repeated blatant criminal behaviors suggest his time at Whittier College, which he had left just prior to his Nevada debacle, misled him to believe that he could indeed do literally any things he felt like doing and get away with it. Victims in Ash's wake in Whittier? Ash enabled to victimize more youths, in Nevada - because he wasn't held to account for acting out in California?

Search James Ash at: http://www.tahoebonanza.com/section/NEWS

Rev. Ted Haggard scandal: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15536263/

Rep. Mark Foley & Co./ Congressional Pages Scandal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Foley_scandal

When James L. Ash, Jr. left Whittier College and took over at Sierra Nevada College, SNC's enrollment was nearing the 600 student viability level it had been striving for since the 1960's. SNC is now going belly up, unable to retain more than 185 or attract more than 85 new students. According to a SNC spokesman, James Ash's misconduct and crimes "certainly didn't help us." http://www.insidehighered.com/new/2006/08/14/sierra

"The End for a Private College" in Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i06/06a03301.htm

And where is Dr. James L. Ash, Jr., the authority on Religious Studies and former President of Whittier College, now?

Nevada Department of Corrections -- Inmate Detail Record
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Identification and Demographics
Inmate Name:	ASH, JAMES L	NDOC ID:	88487	*No Photo Available* The Department of Corrections does not maintain digital photos of most inmates. On occasion, such as in the event of an escape, a digital photo may be posted here.
Gender:	Male	Ethnicity:	White/Caucasian
DOB:	3/29/1945	Approximate Age:	62
Height:	5' 8"	Weight:	160 lbs
Build:	Medium	Complex:	Fair
Hair Color:	Gray	Eye Color:	Blue
Alias(es):	1) DR. JAMES LEE ASH; 2) JAMES LEE ASH

Sentencing Click on any heading below for a description and more information.
Offense	Sentence Level	Sentence Name	Min Sentence	Max Sentence	Parole Eligibility	Mandatory Review	Expiration Date
POSS CON SUB, SCH 1-4; 1ST OFF	1C	DISCH	1.00	2.67	DISCH	DISCH	DISCH
TRAFFICKING CONT SUBST, SCH 1, 4-13 GR	1A	PAROLED	1.33	3.50	PAROLED	PAROLED	07-28-2007
TRAFFICKING CONT SUBST, SCH 1, 4-13 GR	1B	PAROLED	1.00	3.00	PAROLED	PAROLED	02-03-2007

Custody
County of Commitment:	Washoe	Commitment Code:	New Commitment
Offense Group:	Drugs	On Parole Agenda?	NOT ON PAROLE AGENDA
Current Institution:	Southern Desert Correctional Center	Custody Level:	Medium Custody

Temporarily Unavailable. See (next) link to "James Lee Ash: The rise and fall of a meth addict" article below for same "After / Reality" James Ash mug shot.

NEW: The following article provides details of James Lee Ash, Jr.'s outing and mental health, drug, financial and legal problems, but its author, like most Jim Ash apologists, puts the cart before the horse, tries to blame a drug for a man's wrongdoing. Dr. James Lee Ash, Jr.'s overriding issue is that he's gay and lived a lie for many years. Ash's case is strikingly similar to that of Rev. Ted Haggard, except that Haggard went to adult male prostitutes, while Jim Ash is attracted to teenagers. Like Haggard, Ash found that methamphetamine propelled him beyond his fear of his gay sexuality exposing his only apparently model life as a hoax, perpetrated on his wife, his children, peers, on students, on thousands of unsuspecting people he involved in that hoax, but at the cost of his own ability to control himself and events.

Whittier College doing nothing to clarify Ash's interactions with students at the College, and with young males at the Hollywood parties where, according to court records, Ash was doing the same things, while President of Whittier College, that he later did in Nevada, that he was imprisoned for there, may suggest Ash's predatory behaviors had already been made known to the College. Has O J Simpson ever looked for those he suggests murdered Nicola Simpson Brown and Ronald Goldman? If Whittier College had been taken by surprise by Jim Ash's Nevada arrests, one would think the first order of business would be to ascertain whether or not there are Whittier College student and/or other young Los Angeles area Ash victims. Sierra Nevada College was surprised, and no longer exists. Is that Dr. James Lee Ash, Jr.'s fault, or Ash's and Whittier College's fault?

Jim Ash might do well to devote any lucid moment to reading Crystal Meth And Men Who Have Sex With Men, edited by M. D.'s Milton L. Wainberg, Andrew J. Kolodny and Jack Drescher. Reviewer Jim McDonough writes that, "According to recent studies, gay men who use crystal methamphetamine were twice as likely to have unprotected sex as those who did not - and more than three times as likely to be HIV-positive." And that "..."Tina" users...are lost in a downward spiral of addiction and high-risk sexual behaviors." McDonough claims this problem is an "emerging health crisis." We don't know about that, but we do note that when Jim Ash has been arrested, in the detailed lists of what were in his possession at those times, which drugs (marijuana, crystal meth), paraphernalia (hypodermic needles), and sex-related items (lubricant and gay pornography), no item that would make protected sex possible is reported to appear.

Jim Ash could've saved himself and his victims all that has happened by simply being honest, with himself, and with others, but then he'd never have been selected as Whittier College President by Trustees who themselves need some Trustees. At least we know why there hasn't been a male president of Whittier College since Dr. James L. Ash, Jr., can see that the Trustees of Whittier College appear to be paranoid, which is a condition requiring treatment. A mass resignation of the Trustees of Whittier College and the replacement of the current administration under the supervision of new Trustees would give the Whittier College a chance to remake itself, free of its troubled past and current irrationality.

The mystery of James Ash's energy that so impressed Whittier College and then Sierra Nevada College has been solved. The mystery of why Dr. James Ash resigned the Presidencey of Whittier College remains...

Hanno Soth apparently never started classes at Whittier Law, but Whittier Law accepted two deposits (for Fall ' 90) from Soth, the second deposit sent by FedEx on July 5, 1990, just one day after the elderly Carmen Herbert died in Hawaii. Soth, also on July 5, 1990, filed a petition to probate Carmen Herbert's 1989 will. During this period, Soth was an illegal tourist visa overstay in the United States, yet Whittier Law took Soth's payments for courses to commence in a matter of weeks.

In 1973, Carmen Corrine Herbert made a will, leaving one-half her money to her church and one-half to the Shriner's Hospital for Crippled Children. In late December of 1989, by which time Carmen Herbert had begun suffering from the onset of dementia and was under Soth's exclusive care, he engineered a new Herbert will, from which it's estimated Soth would have personally received in excess of $1.5 million.

Carroll Taylor, attorney for the prevailing party, First Church of Christ, Scientist in Honolulu, in protracted litigation over Herbert's wills, suggested the worst case scenario: "Soth had the means (a 26 year old man could easily overpower a sleeping 84 year old woman), the opportunity (he spent the night of July 3, 1990, in her house alone with her, the only time he had done that), and the motive (he had already accepted an offer to attend Whittier College of Law in the fall of 1990 and he stood to inherit $1.5 million plus)." An attorney for Soth, Michael McGuigan, claimed there was no, and the Honolulu police did not find, "evidence of any foul play..."

On September 11, 1990, Soth was noticed that he was subject to deportation as an illegal overstay in the United States (since his tourist visa had expired in June of 1988). The next day, Soth filed an application to be appointed special administrator for Carmen Herbert's estate, misrepresenting that he was a resident of Hawaii, an administrator requirement. On November 5, 1990, Soth's deportation was stayed on condition that he voluntarily depart the United States at his own expense no later than December 5, 1990.

A trial court jury denied probate of the 1989 will, "...on the bases that Carmen lacked the requisite testamentary capacity for its execution, was mistaken about its contents, and was unduly influenced in its execution." Soth appealed, contesting among other things the trial court's admission of evidence related to Whittier Law, including Soth's request that Whittier defer his admittance for one term, citing his special administrator responsibilities. The Supreme Court of Hawaii ultimately affirmed the trial court verdict that the 1989 will be held invalid.

Hanno Soth did not go to Whittier Law - because he couldn't afford to do so. The only way Soth could've carried out his plan to attend Whittier Law was if Carmen Herbert died quickly enough and the 1989 will making Soth Herbert's primary beneficiary was probated quickly enough. While Carmen Herbert's death occurred quickly enough for Soth's purpose, the 1989 will was invalidated by a jury and their judgment was affirmed by Hawaiian Appeal as well as Supreme Courts.

Hanno Soth has resurfaced in Bali. Thomas Henderson, who let Soth live rent-free in an Oahu room and knew his financial situation and activities, told the Honolulu Star-Bulletin that Soth moved to Indonesia where he posed as a major real estate developer. "[Soth] just tries to tie things up with minimal investment. He's what I would call very shrewd."

Soth issued a press release on the internet stating that the Star-Bulletin article in which Henderson is quoted defamed Soth as it spread through Indonesia, which "is clearly damaging for PT. Hanno Bali," Soth's fantastic south seas development company proposing to cater to who else but the rich. In April 2005, Soth claimed that the Bali police were investigating Henderson and Star-Bulletin journalist Ian Y. Lind for defamation. More than a year later, Lind commented that "I've had no contact from either Hanno Soth or the Bali police since this complaint was supposedly filed."

Soth's scheme to turn vacant coral atolls in Indonesian waters into luxury resorts, similar to atolls being permanently evacuated due to sea level rise, took an even more fantastic turn when Soth announced a partnership with A4M, a so-called anti-aging business initiated by two osteopaths, Robert Goldman and Ronald Klatz, to turn the proposed luxury resorts into luxury anti-aging resorts.

In 2000, the State of Illinois ordered Goldman and Klatz to stop identifying themselves as MD's. Some years later, Goldman and Klatz were issued limited medical practice licenses. They cannot, for example, write prescriptions. "There is no such thing as anti-aging medicine," says University of Illinois sociologist Jay Olshansky, who specializes in medicine and longevity. A4M filed a $120 million defamation suit against Olshansky, who filed a counter suit. The suits were subsequently dropped. Unfortunately, even the Fountain of Youth is too late for Carmen Herbert.

Whittier Law, through no fault of its own, missed out on a real wunderkind, and God only knows what else, in Hanno Soth.

Steve Unger was graduated by Whittier Law and began practicing law in California, first with and then without standing with the California State Bar Association. After a series of misconduct findings and discipline therefore, Unger was suspended by and then compelled to resign from the State Bar.

Finally, Unger, and his junior partner in crime, Bryan Kamenetz, were arrested and charged with conspiracy to violate the practice of law by non-lawyers, theft from an elder or dependent adult, grand theft of personal property, forgery, NSF check issuance, and grand theft by embezzlement, among the 18 count criminal complaint's charges.

Unger's first suspended State Bar suspension/probation condition was that he take and pass the Professional Responsibilities Examination. When Unger resigned from the State Bar, he did so without ever having taken and passed the MPRE. Specific misconduct during the period when Unger was licensed to practice law ranged from the exotic, fabricating court orders, to the mundane, stealing from his clients.

Search Supreme Court Minutes, October 3, 2000 Unger and then Supreme Court Minutes, March 18, 2002 Unger at http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/search.cgi for Steven Howard Unger Disciplinary Action and Resignation, respectively.