Posted on 03/20/2014 1:17:11 PM PDT by ColdOne
President Obama's NCAA bracket, distributed by the White House, and his comments to ESPN that he would buy the first lady some shoes if he won, may have crossed strict ethics lines barring federal workers from doing their own brackets while on duty.
Officials in several federal offices have told Secrets that they have been ordered to stay off their work computers when drawing up their gambling brackets for the annual March Madness basketball tournaments.
A federal memo that different agencies have rewritten to fit their workforce, this one from the Air Force, reads:
It's that time of year again, sports fans! College basketball conference tournaments are in full swing and ‘March Madness,’ the NCAA men's basketball tournament, starts this week.
It's time to send out that e-mail to the squadron and let them know who the point of contact is to collect everyone's $5 entry fee, right? Wrong. Like it or not, participating in a money-betting pool for NCAA basketball games in the workplace on duty time violates ethics laws and subjects employees to disciplinary action.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
What do you think will happen?
I’m sure the shoes will be reported as winnings to Louis Lerner.
Seriously, who cares. I’m all for brackets at work, and pools too.
.....And I bet Obama had to draw a “scratch line” over OSU when Dayton won today. SARC.
He had OSU in the Sweet Sixteen.
Obama knows no rules.
Notify Eric Holder. That’s his department.
I’m sure he’ll get right on it.
Oh give me a break!
They can play all the Solitaire they want.
Ethics and Obama is an oxymoron.
Rules, Laws and Regulations do not apply to the One. What is the Constitution is the question that the One always asks? He claims he is a Constitutional Scholar? Right and the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and Leprachauns exist right now. Yes and there is gold (krugerrands) at the end of every rainbow.
Hussein should be ok. The ethics deal only applies to Americans.
He will be impeached on this before he is for the IRSNSACIABENGHAZIEPADOJ Scandals
We all know Baraq doesn't do any work.
Yeah, how does that work now? :)
If he loses will she go barefoot?
Since when can we call it “work” what Obama is doing?
“Work” entails doing something useful and productive.
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