14 DAY TRIAL // Wikipedia is the site where you go for information when you have something that is unclear for you. However, it is not the company to look up to for management hiring examples, they have made a bad choice that is the equivalent of General Custer recruiting Indians or the Templar Knights welcoming Saladin as second in command and in charge of training their troops.
Carolyn Bothwell Doran was hired by Wikipedia to balance their million dollar checkbook, back in January, and left the charitable Foundation in July, two months before the audit was set to be released and one month before its planning was to begin. To this day it hasn't been made public, but Chairman Clarence Devouard said that it "is expected to be finished by the end of the calendar year (hopefully)."
The criminal record of Doran includes "convictions for passing bad checks, theft, petty larceny, additional DUIs, and unlawfully wounding her boyfriend with a gun shot to the chest". Now, I'm not saying that the correctional system isn't doing its job, but perhaps they could have found a better person for the job. She left the company for good after her latest DUI (driving under the influence of alcohol) that happened in July and was arrested and jailed by the Pinellas Park, Florida police, a month later, after a warrant had been issued by the sheriff in London County, Virginia. Don't think that it was her only DUI while with Wikipedia, she had another one on the 20th of May, but she got away after paying a 5250 dollar bond, despite driving under the influence while her license was suspended or revoked.
"In the summer of 2005, Doran went to prison for a DUI hit and run with a fatality, and when she was released in January of 2006, she was put on probation", Cade Metz of The Register reports. If you've read carefully, this is the very same month that she was hired, as a part-time accountant by Wikipedia. And while on probation, she left for Amsterdam to attend a Wikimedia Foundation board meeting. This was just one of the many reasons she was arrested. In case you were wondering why she was hired, the official statement from Mike Godwin, the Foundation's lawyer, was that "We've never had any documentation of any criminal record on Carolyn Doran's part at all", he told us. "As far as I'm concerned, I have no direct knowledge of [her criminal record] yet...We have, in our records, no evidence of any such thing."
The Wikimedia Foundation's fiscal year ended on June 30th and you can see that it's a tad late for the audit to be released on time. Did Doran have something to do with it?