Rooster in Review: Let's hit the bricks
The Rooster looks ahead toward a much-needed holiday weekend.
The Rooster will not publish an original dispatch on Mon., May 25, in observance of Memorial Day.
But don’t worry if you’re that desperate for #content, we’ll recycle one of the classics from the seven years of publishing in the archives.
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Guy whose business is based on intellectual property theft: Actually, Slapshot and his mistress tried to steal my intellectual property!
The venerable Sheridan Hendrix of The Columbus Dispatch published a hilarious update to the fallout from Ohio State’s firing of former president Ted “Slapshot” Carter over his efforts to funnel university (and state!) resources to Krisanthe Vlachos, Carter’s podcasting paramour, in a tradition dating back to his days as president at Nebraska.
An app developer named in Ohio State’s investigation of former president Ted Carter called the university’s report misleading, saying the report damaged his company’s reputation and inaccurately described his relationship with Carter and Krisanthe Vlachos.
“They lied in their report,” said Paul Hylenski, a Marine Corps veteran who founded an app that would eventually get caught in the middle of Carter and Vlachos’ misconduct.
In fact, Hylenski claimed that Carter and Vlachos tried to steal the intellectual property of that app.
Hylenski founded Vet Mentor AI, a tech company that developed an app to help streamline the disability benefits application process for veterans, in December 2024.
Hard to pick a side in this particular conflict.
In one corner, you have Ohio State, which has devolved into little more than an organized criminal conspiracy that cannot be trusted to investigate itself.
In the other corner, you have some AI-loving reptile crying about his “intellectual property,” when “artificial intelligence” wouldn’t be possible without the theft of other people’s intellectual property in the first place.
I just hope both teams have fun out there, though I’d be remiss without noting that “Vet Mentor AI” appears to have been little more than a do-nothing app whose relevance depeneded entirely upon improper, backchannel relationships.
Many such cases!
This week in Ohio Man…
Last month, a coalition of Jeffrey Epstein survivors sued Leslie Wexner and The Wexner Foundation in New York State Court.
The lawsuit states there would be no Epstein without Wexner, a sentiment echoed by U.S. House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Robert Garcia (D-CA).
Coincidentally, a little over a month later, the Wexner Foundation is “spinning off” flagship leadership programs after alumni questioned Wexner’s longtime business partnership and friendship with the most infamous dead pedophile in the world.
From Gabby Deutch of Jewish Insider:
The Wexner Foundation told alumni on Thursday that it will spin off its flagship leadership programs into an independent nonprofit, marking a major development within the Jewish philanthropic landscape that comes as the foundation’s benefactor, Les Wexner, continues to face pushback for his past ties to financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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Wexner Foundation President Rabbi B. Elka Abrahamson said in a Thursday email that the foundation’s North American leadership programs will be moved to a new nonprofit beginning next year with a $40 million gift from Wexner and his wife, Abigail. Abrahamson told the Wexner alumni that the spin-off was a long time in the works.
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Abrahamson announced that Wexner will shift the focus of his personal foundation to supporting Jewish programming in his hometown of Columbus and in Israel.
It’s hard to envision how Wexner won’t maintain massive, albeit non-official, influence over these leadership groups if they accepted a $40 million check from the problematic pervert on the way out the door.
I’d also note that Columbus isn’t Wexner’s hometown. He’s from Dayton and lives in Bexley before moving to New Albany, the patch of farmland he transformed with Epstein, in the late 1980s. But that’s another blog post for another day.
In the meantime, this is another example of why I’m over the word “billionaire.” The average American cannot process “one billion dollars,” let alone a multi-billionaire like Wexner who can drop $40 million at the drop of a hat to end some public relations problem.
The proper term is oligarch, which legacy press traditionally reserved for Russian businessmen in the post-Soviet era—a population that looks like patriotic paupers compared to America’s current overlords.
This week in The Rooster…
It was another brisk week of business at Rooster Worldwide LLC.
It sure looks like Music Man’s paramour did some light credit card fraud. Instacart records obtained by The Rooster indicate that Congressman Max Miller’s girlfriend fraudently ordered thousands of dollars in groceries to his home in Bay Village and apartment in Washington D.C.
Ohio Medicaid fraud allegations are based on a fraud’s fraudulent work. Daily Wire “investigative reporter” Luke Roziak is the basis of new claims about “up to $6 billion in Medicaid fraud” in Ohio. He has a history of fantastical claims later debunked.
Ohio Republicans’ one weird trick. Look for the Ballot Board to attach Donald Trump’s name to the proposed constitutional amendment that would enshrine current voter photo ID laws.
Jimmy Haslam rubs Central Ohio Democrats’ face in it. Haslam, fresh off a $50 million heist in Franklin County, is set to host a fundraiser for Senator Jon Husted with several low-rent con artists later this month.
The Rooster will resume its standard publication schedule on Wed., May 27 at 4:33 a.m.
Until then… stay frosty, my friends!
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