Re: [ALSC-Forum] Re: User Interest in ICANN is Broad and Deep

[Jeff Williams]

Cecily and all stakeholders or interested parties,

  Cecily, I believe it is KPMG...

Cecily & Ralph Wood wrote:

> Forgive me for being cynical, but who cooks ICANN's book?  Arthur Anderson?
> Or are they managing it themselves? - Cecily
>
> Karl Auerbach wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Karl Auerbach wrote:
> >
> > I'm sure that all of you you found my very amusing misstatement:
> >
> > > ....  On the other hand, ICANN has been a rather deep money trough at
> > > which several of the leading opponents of ICANN have fed for years.
> >
> > It was supposed to say "... opponents of ICANN's at-large...".  Oh well,
> > someday I will have to learn how to type.  Ah but what's a word more or
> > less among friends?
> >
> > Personally I can't say that I know of any opponents of ICANN who have
> > received money from ICANN.  On the other hand, and what my mis-typing was
> > intended to say, was that there are those who are in opposition to the
> > at-large who have received quite a bit of money from ICANN, mainly in the
> > form of rather large fees for "services".
> >
> > For more than a year I have been asking the question of whether those fees
> > were appropriate for the services rendered.  Of course, the illegal
> > refusal of ICANN's mananagement to allow me to inspect ICANN's financial
> > records has made this inquiry rather less detailed.  But even without
> > detail, large shapes are discernable.
> >
> > In particular I have looked into the question of whether ICANN has
> > violated the US Tax laws as they apply to tax exempt entities that pay
> > what is called an "excess benefit" to a "disqualified person".  My
> > inquiries have left me concerned; the failure of ICANN's management to act
> > on the information that I provided has left me alarmed.  My
> > back-of-the-envelope calculations indicate that ICANN, its directors (past
> > and present), and management could, along with the recipients of those
> > excess benefits, be subject to tax penalties of a scale that make the cost
> > of the at-large seem but pennies on the dollar.
> >
> >                 --karl--

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