Posted on 06/12/2009 5:49:50 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
Some strange and potentially suspicious events tonight concerning the Obama White House and the AmeriCorps program. I've been told that on Wednesday night the AmeriCorps inspector general, Gerald Walpin, received a call from the White House counsel's office telling him that he had one hour to either resign or be fired. The White House did not cite a reason. "The answer that was given was that it's just time to move on," one Senate source told me tonight. "The president would like to have someone else in that position."
Inspectors General are part of every federal department. They are given the responsibility of independently investigating allegations of waste, fraud, and corruption in the government, without fear of interference by political appointees or the White House. Last year Congress passed the Inspectors General Reform Act, which added new protections for IGs, including a measure requiring the president to give Congress 30 days prior notice before dismissing an IG. The president must also give Congress an explanation of why the action is needed. Then-Sen. Barack Obama was one of the co-sponsors of the Act.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
We need to fire Obama. He’s SUPPOSED to be working for US.
Radical left-wing politics.
Room needed for Ernst Röhm.
Maybe he’s overreached? It will happen one of these days.
Former NBA Star and School Founder Promises to Bring New Energy to City Hall
March 5, 2008
Sacramento, CA - In front of a capacity crowd at Oak Park’s historic Guild Theatre, Kevin Johnson today formally declared his candidacy for Mayor of Sacramento.
“Professional sports allowed me to travel all over this great country and all over the world.” Johnson said. “But no matter how far I traveled, I never forgot my home. I always knew I would return to Sacramento. Why? Because I am a third generation Oak Park native and my grandfather instilled in me a pride in this community. With his values firmly instilled in me, eighteen years ago, I started St. HOPE to give back to the community that I love.”
While playing in the NBA, Johnson founded the St. HOPE Academy and today serves as its CEO. St. HOPE is a nonprofit community development corporation created to revitalize communities through public education, civic leadership, economic development and the arts. In 2003, St. HOPE formed St. HOPE Public Schools, a pre-K through 12 independent charter school system of seven small schools.
http://www.kevinjohnsonformayor.com/about/media/announcement
UPDATE 2: More information now, from the Associated Press. The White House is going ahead with firing Walpin. The firing apparently stems from Walpin’s investigation of a non-profit group, St. HOPE Academy, run by Kevin Johnson, the former NBA star who is now mayor of Sacramento, California (and a big Obama supporter). “[Walpin] found that Johnson, a former all-star point guard for the Phoenix Suns, had used AmeriCorps grants to pay volunteers to engage in school-board political activities, run personal errands for Johnson and even wash his car,” the AP
reports. In April, the U.S. attorney declined to file any criminal charges in the matter and criticized Walpin’s investigation. But at the same time Johnson and St. HOPE agreed to repay about half of the $850,000 it had received from AmeriCorps.
Bottom line: The AmeriCorps IG accuses prominent Obama supporter of misusing AmeriCorps grant money. Prominent Obama supporter has to pay back more than $400,000 of that grant money. Obama fires AmeriCorps IG.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Whats-behind-Obamas-sudden-firing-of-the-AmeriCorps-inspector-general-47877797.html
Close but not quite. Scariest is the federal court inexplicably abandoning an open-and-shut case of voter intimidation.
Obama Fires AmeriCorps Inspector General Over Scandal
President Obama’s move follows an investigation by IG Gerald Walpin of Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, who is an Obama supporter and former NBA basketball star, into the misuse of federal grants by a nonprofit education group that Johnson headed.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/11/obama-plans-americorps-inspector-general-scandal/
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/11/obama-plans-americorps-inspector-general-scandal/
Why are the American people allowing the Obama admin to operate as a criminal enterprise?
This President need to be investigated and impeached.
You know, we are hearing that this stuff is going on daily. it is always ignored and forgotten.
Is there any doubt why the people are starting to boil with rage?
Maybe the explanation will be that the IG was insufficiently diligent in rooting out waste and corruption.
Always follow the “money trail” when it comes to these corrupt libtards..... They leave an easy to follow trail.
This particular one is interesting since obongo wants to put his fingerprints all over it. He’ll over-reach one of these days and get his pinkys slapped.....maybe even over this one. We can only pray he does.
The press will never touch this...
Graft and corruption at the highest levels of government...
I can smell bananas in the political winds...
Maybe the explanation will be that the IG was insufficiently diligent in rooting out waste and corruption.
Very Nixonian.
I would not be surprised if it was eventually found out down the road it was all because of a possible conservative view or anti-Obama comments that the inspector may have posted on a blog.
Obama has his internet Gestapo out patrolling all places looking for dissension, especially coming from those in the government circles.
Its either his rules or hit the road jack.
Or maybe he found something the administration didn’t want to get out.
I was thinking it was getting the Supreme Court to throw out over 200 years of contract law.
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