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May 24, 2026  •  Misanthrope Index: 8.2 — Approaching Walken

Folly of the Day

India's National Testing Agency Appointed Manisha Havaldar as a Physics Expert to Help Set the NEET-UG 2026 Exam. She Allegedly Leaked the Physics Questions. The NTA Used Those Questions in the Official Exam on May 3. The Evidence Was the Exam Itself.

To monetize the leaked physics questions, the conspirators needed the NTA to use them in the official exam — which it did — which meant the evidence of the leak was submitted to 2.3 million test-takers simultaneously on May 3, verifiable by anyone who compared the official paper to the circulated material, which is how the CBI found out.

Source: The Week (India)

The Wire

A Minnesota Roofing Contractor Obtained Workers' Compensation Insurance by Declaring Zero Employees and Paying $501. He Was Running the Same Jobsite Under a Government Contract That Required Him to File Certified Payroll Showing $416,490 in Employee Wages.

Brian Alanis Ramos submitted two official documents about the same workforce to two separate government entities during the same project period: one showing zero employees (to the insurer) and one showing $416,490 in wages (to the housing authority auditing the same contract), which meant the entire case required comparing the two documents.

Source: Minnesota Lawyer

The Wire

A New York City Public Advocate Candidate Was Charged With Wire Fraud for Allegedly Wiring $130,000 From the Philippines Directly Into Her Personal Bank Account to Manufacture Qualifying Contributions for $1 Million in City Matching Funds

Angela Aquino's plan for obtaining $1 million in public matching funds required a $130,000 foreign wire transfer routed through her personally named bank account, which is the one step in the scheme that every federal banking regulation was specifically written to detect, flag, and report.

Source: News 12 Brooklyn

The Wire

A Japan Post Employee Was Arrested for Rigging a ¥180 Million Contract by Setting the Official Reserve Price Below Market Value — Ensuring All Competing Bids Were Rejected, and Ensuring the Auditable Record Explained Exactly Why

Nobuyuki Yoneda manipulated the official reserve price document — the document that determines whether bids succeed or fail, and that is reviewed whenever a bidding process produces no competitive offers — to guarantee rejection of every competing bid and force a single-bidder award to his associate, whose Tokyo Disney Resort package he had already accepted.

Source: Tokyo Reporter

The Wire

A British Man Convicted of Embezzling Millions From a Financial Firm Using Forged Invoices Was Warned of Legal Action After Appearing Repeatedly on British Television as a Human Rights 'Lawyer'

David Haigh, convicted in 2015 of embezzling millions from GFH Capital and subsequently suspended from legal practice, presented himself on British television as a credible legal voice — a personal brand strategy whose only structural requirement was that no one search his name, which the legal bodies warning him of regulatory action apparently did.

Source: The National

LazyTown

A Home Depot Store Manager Was Explicitly Warned by Management to Stop Selling to Seven Specific Accounts. He Continued for Another 28 Months.

Management identified the accounts, named them, and told him directly to stop — after which he continued, and the monitoring program that had already flagged the scheme continued monitoring, which is the expected behavior of a monitoring program that had already been triggered.

Source: Local 10 News

Campus Watch

UNBELIEVABLE! Students CANNOT Answer SIMPLE Questions!

Source: KeroNgb / YouTube

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