UC Merced’s preliminary inquiry into teaching professor Abbas Ghassemi, who owned a Twitter account rife with antisemitic content, has become a formal investigation into whether he violated the faculty’s code of conduct.
Ghassemi’s Twitter account was deleted shortly after J. uncovered the antisemitic content in December.
Among his roughly 2,200 tweets was a picture of a “Zionist brain” with the labels “frontal money lobe,” “Holocaust memory centre” and “world domination lobe.” In other tweets, he stated that Zionists and Israel controlled American banking, media, government policy and commerce.
The account included his academic title, his name and a photo of him. His bio stated he was a professor at UC Merced.
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Third defendant sentenced for Hilmar home invasion, fatal shooting Jose Hernandez
The death of a robber in a hail of bullets fired by his accomplices during a home invasion robbery in Hilmar has resulted in a lengthy prison term for one defendant.
On April 13, Merced County Superior court Judge Jeanne Schechter sentenced Jose Hernandez to 54 years to life, plus 10 years for his role in a home invasion robbery. A jury found Hernandez guilty in February 2019 of two counts of first-degree home invasion robbery in concert and first-degree burglary.
According to the court records, Hernandez, along with his co-defendants, William White, Victor Hernandez and Orlando Yepez made a plan to rob the home of Juan Carlos Alvarez.
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California Nutrition Assistant Arraigned for Workers’ Comp Fraud March 8, 2021
Kia Lor, 54, of Merced, Calif., was arraigned on four counts of insurance fraud after an investigation by the California Department of Insurance found that she allegedly lied about the extent of prior injuries in an attempt to receive nearly $7,000 in workers’ compensation payments.
On Oct. 5, 2018, Lor, a former nutrition assistant at the Merced Community Action Agency, reportedly injured her lower back while lifting a cooler at a company picnic. During the course of treatment, Lor reportedly denied any prior injuries to her lower back when completing paperwork and while talking with the workers’ comp insurance carrier and the qualified medical examiner.