Molly Janczyk: Letter to Lara Baker

Sent: January 4, 2006
Subject: FW: 010406 Baker Resp, Re Curtis To Baker, Re Hazel Sideway

Ms. Baker,

Retirees appreciate your attention to this case. We hope that your office will delve deeply into Ms. Sidaway's actions as determined by the OEC. Paying bar bills with retiree earnings who need RX and treatments is unconscionable by anyone's standards. Enjoying the best rooms, dinners and trips with money skimmed from STRS funds meant for retirees is equally without regard for her position.

If your broker used your earnings for his owm pleasure, I believe you would be beyond enraged, especially if you needed those funds to maintain your health care.

Please put yourself in our place as much as possible and push for a stiffer penalty than a few hundred dollars in fines -- a laughable consequence to the arrogant and demeaning attitude this board gave us when questioned. "It is OUR money to spend as we wish" was their mantra.

We are grateful for your prosecution on this matter but sorely disappointed in the findings. Perhaps greater detail will result in stiffer penalties.

Thank you.

Molly Janczyk
STRS Retiree
CORE
OEA-R Lifetime
ORTA Lifetime