Posted on 10/06/2009 11:38:21 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
BUFFALO, NY--The Erie County district attorney yesterday fired a long-time assistant who complained in media reports that the office had failed to properly investigate alleged 2007 election law violations.
District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III said in a statement that he would not tolerate an assistant prosecutor, Mark Sacha, who violated "appropriate standards of professional behavior with impunity."
In an interview last month with the Buffalo News, Mr. Sacha accused the office of giving a "pass" to Democratic operative G. Steven Pigeon for alleged election law violations during the 2007 campaign for Erie County executive. In his statement yesterday, Mr. Sedita said his predecessor, Frank Clark, investigated and closed the case against Mr. Pigeon last year. Mr. Sedita took office on Jan. 1, 2009, and the following day demoted Mr. Sacha as a supervisor. Mr. Sacha, 51, had been with the Erie County office for 22 years.
Efforts to reach Mr. Sacha were unsuccessful. He told the Buffalo News yesterday that his dismissal was the latest in a "pattern of retaliation" against him by Mr. Sedita for wanting to press the election law case against Mr. Pigeon.
This is news? At my office, we call this BAU (Business As Usual).
He shouldn't be surprised at this, nor should he cry "victim".
Sacha was not insubordinate to his employer, the people of Erie County. He did refuse to be a hack for Democrat crime family.
I guess if he was complaining against a republican it would called “whistle blowing” and it would be cool.
That's not what "insubordination" means, FRiend.
When someone is placed in a supervisory position over you, you either do what you're told and practice loyalty toward your boss, or you quit your job and go to work somewhere else. That's pretty much it, IMO.
If he wanted to protest, he should have first quit his job, then exposed the corruption.
Another marble-mouthed bureaucrat speaks out.
"Impunity" means to be exempt from punishment or loss.
Being fired because of your actions is the opposite of "impunity."
Clearly Mr. Pigeon wasn’t guilty himself, but was duped. : )
IOW if Sacha had gone along with Sedita’s cover-up, both of them would have been insubordinate to the people of Erie County.
I think I get it.
Yup.
I think a lot of us get it... and got it long ago.
Get in the way of the Democrat voter fraud and election theft machine, and pay the consequences.
Up here in Maine some Campaign volunteers for a republican candidate followed a state owned and no doubt taxpayer fueled 12 passenger van around to at least 34 polling places where the useful idiots from the U of ME got out and voted at each one.
When they turned the video tapes of the operation over to the democrat political hack AG and SOS however, neither one of them could be bothered to investigate, much less prosecute. After the statute of limitations ran out, we are told that the perps now brag about the caper.
I think it’s pretty safe to assume that this goes on quite regularly at election time, and is only one of a plethora of tricks to steal our Liberty.
Then again a few years back a republican got caught calling a Dem phone bank allegedly trying to tie it up (like they do regularly to their opposition, sometimes using public school phone lines) and he was nearly driven off the face of the planet.
They haven’t gotten around to posting club wielding thugs at our polling place doors yet, but they probably know that Maine would not be a really smart place to go that far in.
We still have a few Lumberjacks up here, and they can swing a mean axe.
Election fraud is a game that can only be played with impunity by one team. But then again most of us here know that already, don’t we?
Nope, he is an officer of the court and is held to a higher standard that just what the boss wants. Plus, I think he is a civil service employee which opens up all kinds of fun. This was a very bad move by the District Attorney office, now they are going to have to deal with discovery and a special prosecutor.
I think I get it.
Umm... No.
Responsibility goes with leadership. The buck stopped at Sacha's boss, and he should have realized that.
If he would not or could not support what his boss wanted, he should have resigned and then blown the whistle.
I don't disagree with you.
The problem is in the order and way he handled it. He shouldn't fire on his boss while still a subordinate.
Being an officer of the court, he should have resigned his position in protest, then explained why.
Isn't that what all the whistleblower laws are about? If you catch your boss doing something possibly illegal, you get to turn them in without the punishment of losing your job and maybe never getting another due to blacklisting?
This sounds like there could be illegality afoot here, that some sort of conspiracy to avoid punishing democratic vote fraud could be seen in all this.
“If he would not or could not support what his boss wanted, he should have resigned and then blown the whistle.”
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The people of Erie County are Sedita’s boss. Cover-ups are not in his job description.
btt
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