Posted on 11/22/2009 10:15:59 PM PST by pissant
On Friday, The Washington Examiner's chief political correspondent, Byron York, had another stunning report on the scandal involving the firing of Americorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin. Earlier this year, Walpin was fired in what appears to be a politically motivated attempt by Democrats to silence his investigation into allegations of misuse of $800,000 in federal funds by Sacramento mayor and former NBA star Kevin Johnson. The funds were provided by the federal Americorps program to St. Hope, a nonprofit school that Johnson then headed.
York's latest blockbuster is his reporting of a congressional report prepared by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. While probing the misuse of funds allegations, congressional investigators were told that Johnson made improper advances toward three young women at St. Hope. The report also alleges that Michelle Rhee, D.C.'s nationally-celebrated chancellor of schools and now Johnson's fiancee, acted as a fixer for her future husband when she was on the St. Hope board of directors. Rhee allegedly reassured St. Hope employees that she would investigate Johnson's inappropriate conduct. Shortly afterward, Johnson's personal attorney visited one of the young women making the accusations. At about the same time, investigators were told, Johnson offered one of the women $1,000 a month to keep quiet.
Walpin was cleared of any wrongdoing by the Integrity Committee of the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency. The Obama administration still defends the decision to fire Walpin, but a growing body of evidence suggests the president's aides feared Walpin would expose corruption of two rising stars in the Democratic Party.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Coming soon to healthcare.
x 1000.
Yep, it appears that “stinking corrupt” is now a resume requirement for NeoCommunist Party.
~~This crew could be the biggest legal
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2010 and then impeachment......This Joker-in-chief is a fraud. he is in totally over his head. He reads from the teleprompter all right but that is when it is working right.
Impeach Obamao, now!!!!!
Democrat culture of corruption BUMP!
For Immediate Release
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Grassley calls on administration to safeguard independence of Inspectors General
WASHINGTON -— Senator Chuck Grassley is urging the administration to
follow the letter and spirit of the law, which the President co-sponsored as legislation as a
U.S. senator in 2007, regarding the dismissal of the Inspector General for the AmeriCorps
program, after reports last night that administration officials gave the watchdog an hour
to resign or be terminated. Grassley said it looks like the White House is today modifying its stance and
saying that last night’s ultimatum started the 30-day notification clock. “Either way, it
looks like the letter and spirit of the law Congress passed last year to try to safeguard the
independence of Inspectors General from the heavy hand of the executive branch that it’s
supposed to oversee might have been circumvented,” he said. http://finance.senate.gov/press/Gpress/2009/prg061109a.pdf
I hated Americorps from the first time I saw it. It seemed the red, white, and blue version of brown shirts.
Thank goodness for Byron York.
I always wonder where they draw the Young Collectivists from and what parents are saying/doing that produces a 13 or 14 year old that actively wants to be a political prop.
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