Lu Figarella
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Father, Husband, Patent Agent, Inventor, Pilot, Historian, Engineer. Tweets are in English and/or Spanish (RAE-free 1982) All Opinions and Statements my own.
A single accountant stole $53 million from her employer over 20 years and nobody noticed Rita Crundwell was the comptroller of Dixon, Illinois with a population of 15,000 She opened a secret bank account called “Reserve Sewer Capital Development Account” For two decades she transferred city funds into it while filing fake invoices She used the money to become the most successful quarter horse breeder in America Owned 400 horses, multiple farms, a custom bus, and a $2.1 million motorhome She won the World Championship in quarter horse breeding four times while actively robbing a small town Only got caught because a substitute accountant covered her desk while she was on vacation The city had been cutting firefighter jobs and road repairs for years while this was happening $53 million. One woman. 20 years. One vacation.
8 cuartos y 10 baños que el próximo huracán se lo lleva y se apropia de la propiedad valorada hoy en Luquillo $650k.
Wernher von Braun, director of NASA's Marchall Space Flight Center, at his office in Huntsville, Alabama 1965.
The easiest reminder of US airpower. You can´t miss it. RB-36 photographed in Ramey AFB, Puerto Rico, 1957. 📸John Carlton
Breaking: Army Names Its New MV-75 Tiltrotor Cheyenne II First applied to a failed cutting-edge attack helicopter, the Cheyenne name returns for what is perhaps the Army’s most ambitious rotorcraft program yet. twz.com/air/army-names…
