[Brad from Tennessee]

FROM STORY:

The hearing then took an even more bizarre turn when investigator Patrick Sullivan noted that Beale eventually filed retirement paperwork, and thus is due his government pension.

Both Republicans and Democrats on the panel called themselves dumbfounded by the news.

“Still month after month the American taxpayers are going to pay” Beale, said Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah). He said he wants to see EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy come before the committee to answer for why she didn’t immediately fire Beale after becoming aware that he was receiving unearned bonuses and had stayed on the payroll even after holding a retirement party.

“What does it take to actually get fired in this federal government?” Chaffetz railed.

[PowderMonkey]

"Beale eventually filed retirement paperwork, and thus is due his government pension."

Umm, no. He's not. Federal legislation enacted in the late 1990s enables the govt. to take that sumbitch's pension away from him. Either somebody is lying, or somebody has made a very sweet deal. Put the EPA administrator under oath, and squeeze. Hard.