Well, in all fairness...
WE4B>> ... I have posted evidence ...
No. You post ridiculous conspiracy theories and unsubstantiated allegations. You point to non-official AMSAT-NA sites.
Post the AMSAT Budget involved. Show us the budgeted line item for legal expenses. Show us what it is. Give us FACTS.
Show us the proof of non-approved expenditures that were made without board approval that you whine about.
EVIDENCE! Make a case! Show documentation of all this wrongdoing and I'll jump ship faster than you can say, "malcontent."
Tweets ... blog posts ... eHam rants - are not evidence, no matter how many times you write them.
On the "
AMSAT Leadership Explains 2018-2020 Legal Expenses" page, President Colman said that in the Spring of 2019 "...With the full
knowledge and consent of the Board, the President sought legal counsel to advise him on proposed sanctions against Patrick Stoddard...."
If the Board consented to this legal action and expense, where is that Board approval documented? They must have met, and written minutes. That is important, because the 2019 Budget, having been previously approved in the Board meeting of Nov 2, 2018, would have preceded the action taken by the president in Spring of 2019 to seek legal counsel, and the approved 2019 budget therefore could not have included such expenses.
But on the "
Minutes of the AMSAT Board of Directors" web page in AMSAT.org website, there are just 2 Board meetings in 2019 with minutes published:
June 18, 2019 Board of Directors Teleconference
2019 Board of Directors Meeting (which took place on Oct 16-17)
Neither of those 2 board meeting minutes includes any mention of the board approving legal expenses, unless I missed it. So, did the Board consent to legal expenses without it being documented? uh-oh! Now, the resulting legally-drafted Acceptable Use policy was approved by the Board in the June 18 meeting, and
that is documented, but the expenses to get the draft are not.
Then, in Amsat's audited
2019 Financial Statement, the expenses are shown thus:
Expenses and Losses:
Unrealized loss on investments - - -
Loss on sale of investments
7 ,596Total Losses 7 ,596 Program Expenses:
Information and symposia 198,385
Satellite operations 81,182
Publications and software 102,524
Satellite development
113,014Total Program Expenses 495,105
Supporting Services:
Management and general 73,959
Fundraising
6,078Total Supporting Services 80,037
Total Expenses and Losses 582,738
Again no mention of any legal expenses. One would hardly call Legal expenses to be "general services", so where are they actually buried?
So what gives? Is this enough to raise a few eyebrows?
I certainly think so.
malcontent. there, I said it.
73, Ed