by Justin Paperny | Mar 2, 2009 | Blog
Monday, March 2, 2009 Seventy-Eight Days Until My Release From Taft Prison Camp This afternoon I will lead a class seminar for thirty other prisoners at Taft Camp. The class is called the Entrepreneurial Compass, and it is usually led by my friend Michael Santos, who...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Justin Paperny | Mar 2, 2009 | Blog
Monday, March 2, 2009 Seventy-Eight Days Until My Release From Taft Federal Prison Camp This afternoon I will lead a class seminar for thirty other prisoners at Taft Camp. The class is called the Entrepreneurial Compass, and it is usually led by my friend Michael...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Justin Paperny | Mar 1, 2009 | Blog
Sunday, March 1, 2009 Seventy-Nine Days Until My Release From Taft Federal Prison Camp A few days ago I wrote about some of the lessons I had learned from prison. In reading through excerpts of anthologies on philosophy, I came across thoughts from thinkers who had a...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Justin Paperny | Feb 28, 2009 | Blog
Saturday, February 28, 2009 Eighty Days Until My Release From Taft Federal Prison Camp Wow! Tomorrow morning when I wake we will have crossed into the month of March. March will bring the beginning of spring season, the season of my release. Temperatures have warmed...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Justin Paperny | Feb 27, 2009 | Blog
Friday, February 27, 2009 Eighty-One Days Until My Release From Taft Federal Prison Camp Earlier this week I attended a seminar for motivational speaking. A chaplain from the camp sponsored the program by bringing in a speaker from the San Francisco area....				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Justin Paperny | Feb 26, 2009 | Blog
Thursday, February 26, 2009 Eighty-Two Days Until My Release From Taft Federal Prison Camp I recently had an opportunity to read some of the work by Plato. I remember being introduced to Plato during my undergraduate studies, but at the time my focus was on playing...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Justin Paperny | Feb 25, 2009 | Blog
Wednesday February 25, 2009 Eighty-Three Days Until My Release From Taft Federal Prison Camp It was one year ago today that a federal judge sentenced me to serve an 18-month prison term. I didn’t know what that meant as I had not had previous experience with criminal...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Justin Paperny | Feb 24, 2009 | Blog
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 Eighty-Four Days Until My Release From Taft Federal Prison Camp The stock market dropped another 250 points during yesterday’s trading session. I have always been a buy-and-hold investor, never paying much attention to the daily fluctuations...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Justin Paperny | Feb 23, 2009 | Blog
Monday, February 23, 2009 Eighty-Five Days Until My Release From Taft Federal Prison Camp This past Friday, the USA Today published an article indicating that UBS, my former employer, agreed to pay a financial settlement of $780 million to the U.S. government. The...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Justin Paperny | Feb 22, 2009 | Blog
Sunday, February 22, 2009 Eighty-Six Days Until My Release From Taft Federal Prison Camp The Second Chance Act of 2007 was signed into law about one year ago. One of the provisions of that legislation was that it expanded the authority of prison administrators to...