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Wikipedia Jul 16, 2026 at 04:29 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989
- This understates the cost of the savings-and-loan crisis by orders of magnitude. Credible federal sources put the taxpayer cost at roughly $124 billion to $132 billion, not $200 million.
- The party was not renamed on November 10, 1989. Official and reference sources place the renaming in early 1990, with sources specifically citing April 3, 1990.
- This event is mistimed. Bush announced Powell's nomination on August 10, 1989, but Powell did not become Chairman until October 1, 1989.
Wikipedia Jul 16, 2026 at 04:27 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_St%C4%83nculescu
- The 2008 conviction was not for manslaughter. Romanian and European court records describe the offense as murder/attempted murder (Romanian: omor deosebit de grav), i.e. aggravated murder, not manslaughter.
Wikipedia Jul 16, 2026 at 04:25 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_revolution
- This reverses the sequence of events: the FSN took power on December 22, 1989, while Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu were executed on December 25, 1989.
- Ceaușescu was not re-elected on November 20, 1989. He was re-elected on November 24, 1989, at the close of the Romanian Communist Party’s 14th Congress.
Wikipedia Jul 16, 2026 at 03:46 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kornilov_affair
- The Russian Republic was proclaimed on 14 September 1917, but the Provisional Council was not created that day. Contemporary and reference sources show it was only proposed later and then formally established in early October, and it functioned as a consultative body rather than a parliament created by the 14 September proclamation.
Wikipedia Jul 16, 2026 at 03:40 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Patriot_Act
- This is incorrect about FISA. Official DOJ and FISC materials state that FISA can apply to U.S. persons, including U.S. citizens, subject to additional or heightened requirements.
- The date is wrong. The official congressional report states that the House disagreed to the Senate amendment to H.R. 3199 and agreed to a conference on November 9, 2005, not September 11.
- The signing date is off by one day. Official records show President Bush signed H.R. 3199 on March 9, 2006, not March 8.
- This misstates the Mayfield case. DOJ’s inspector general found there were no Section 213 “sneak and peek” searches in the Mayfield investigation, and the Ninth Circuit described Mayfield’s constitutional challenge as one to FISA sections 1804 and 1823, not the Patriot Act’s delayed-notice search provision.
- This is chronologically impossible as written. Title III was enacted in 1968, but the Senate’s Church Committee was created in 1975 and issued its final report in 1976, so its criticism could not have been a cause of the 1968 Wiretap Statute.
- This misstates the legal standard. ECPA’s pen-register rules generally require a court order, not a search warrant.
Substack Jul 16, 2026 at 02:28 PM
cityjournal.substack.com/p/no-seriously-decriminalizing-drug...
- This overstates what happened in Washington. Oregon adopted a $100 civil violation for most low-level possession under Measure 110, but Washington did not replace possession penalties with minimal fines; after the Blake ruling, lawmakers made knowing possession a criminal gross misdemeanor with possible jail and mandated diversion for first and second offenses.
Wikipedia Jul 16, 2026 at 01:43 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Stanford
- The jury did not deliberate for three hours. A Justice Department press release says Stanford was convicted after approximately three days of deliberation.
- The timing is off: DOJ says Stanford moved the bank to Antigua in 1990, not in the 1980s, and changed its name to Stanford International Bank in 1994.
- For the SEC's February 17, 2009 action, the amount is misstated. The SEC said its complaint alleged an $8 billion fraud involving approximately $8 billion in certificates of deposit.
Wikipedia Jul 16, 2026 at 01:42 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Dreier
- Federal charging and plea materials describe Dreier’s fake-note scheme as involving about $700 million, not more than $950 million.
Wikipedia Jul 16, 2026 at 01:42 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hoffenberg
- The cited lawsuit did not say Epstein’s hedge fund was worth $50 billion. It alleged instead that The Financial Trust Company had raised more than $50 billion from investors.
Wikipedia Jul 16, 2026 at 01:39 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Skilling
- Skilling was ordered to pay restitution, not a fine. Official sources describe the $45 million as restitution for Enron victims.
- The prison term is right, but the article mislabels the $45 million payment as a fine. Official sources identify it as restitution.
- Skilling did not begin his sentence at Montgomery. Contemporary reporting shows he entered federal prison in Waseca, Minnesota in December 2006 and was only in Montgomery much later.
- The Fifth Circuit did not say Skilling conspired to commit "conspiracy fraud." Its opinion said there was overwhelming evidence that he conspired to commit securities fraud.
Wikipedia Jul 16, 2026 at 01:38 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Markopolos
- The year is wrong. SEC records and SEC Inspector General testimony say Markopolos’ first substantive Madoff complaint to the SEC was in May 2000, not May 1999.
- The percentage drop is misstated. A fall from $9.03 to $8.01 is about 11.3%, not 10.3%, and contemporaneous coverage reported an 11.3% decline.
Wikipedia Jul 16, 2026 at 01:37 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Madoff
- This is incorrect because the SEC does not issue indictments; in this Madoff matter, the SEC filed civil complaints, while the U.S. Attorney obtained the criminal indictment.
- This recovery figure is outdated. Official 2026 updates from the Madoff trustee and SIPC put recoveries and customer distributions above $15.3 billion, not $14.829 billion.
- This mixes up two different charging documents. Madoff's March 12, 2009 guilty plea was to an 11-count criminal information filed on March 10, 2009, not to a criminal complaint filed two days earlier.
- This amount is off by a factor of 1,000. Judge Denny Chin ordered forfeiture of more than $170 billion, not $170 million.
- This forfeiture amount is also incorrect. Madoff was ordered to forfeit about $170.799 billion, not $17.179 billion.
Substack Jul 16, 2026 at 01:05 PM
www.astralcodexten.com/p/ai-chip-regulation-is-not-a-dystopi...
- This appears to refer to Joseph Stack's 2010 Austin attack, but he crashed into an IRS office building, not a skyscraper.
Wikipedia Jul 16, 2026 at 05:30 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930_FIFA_World_Cup
- The official attendance for the 1930 World Cup final was 68,346, not 93,000. FIFA and the Uruguayan Football Association both record 68,346 as the official figure.
Wikipedia Jul 16, 2026 at 04:44 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira_Murati
- The Davis UWC Scholars Program is for UWC graduates' undergraduate study in the United States, not for attending Pearson College UWC high school.
Wikipedia Jul 16, 2026 at 02:15 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956
- This is an anachronism: the United Methodist Church did not exist in 1956. The 1956 vote on full clergy rights for women was taken by The Methodist Church; the United Methodist Church was formed in 1968.
- September 13, 1956 was not when IBM's hard disk drive was invented. IBM and Computer History Museum sources show the technology was developed earlier in the 1950s, and 1956 marks its introduction/shipment, not the invention date.
- Prasanna Jayawardena did not die in 2019. Official Sri Lankan Supreme Court judgments published years later still list him as a sitting judge.
- The date is wrong. Soviet military intervention in Hungary began on October 24, 1956, while the larger crushing offensive began on November 4—not October 26.
- Karnataka was not formed under that name in 1956. The reorganized state created on November 1, 1956 was Mysore State, which was renamed Karnataka in 1973.
Wikipedia Jul 16, 2026 at 02:09 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst
- These foundations were already in existence during Hearst's lifetime, not first created by his will. Records show the Hearst Foundation was tax-exempt from 1946 and the William Randolph Hearst Foundation from 1949.
Wikipedia Jul 16, 2026 at 01:22 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Jenkins
- This is outdated. Jenkins’s own CV says his monthly Christian Century column ran from 2008 through 2022, and a 2022 Christian Century piece was explicitly titled “My last note from the global church.”
- This appears to be outdated. Current Baylor pages identify Jenkins as the program’s director, not co-director.
Wikipedia Jul 16, 2026 at 01:22 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_D._Ehrman
- This is outdated. Ehrman retired from UNC at the end of 2025 and is now Professor Emeritus, not a current Distinguished Professor.
- This publication status is outdated. Simon & Schuster published the book on March 24, 2026, so it was no longer merely 'announced for 2026.'
- This misstates Ehrman’s role on the book. The 4th edition credits Bart D. Ehrman as a coauthor, not a co-editor.
Wikipedia Jul 16, 2026 at 01:21 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religulous
- The film’s runtime is not 96 minutes. Authoritative film-reference sources list Religulous at 101 minutes (1 hour 41 minutes).
- October 3, 2008 was not the film’s first U.S. release date. Authoritative sources show Religulous opened in New York on October 1, 2008; October 3 was a later opening/expansion.
- The film did not open in Los Angeles on October 1, 2008. AFI records a New York opening on October 1 and a Los Angeles opening on October 3.