Posted on 03/16/2018 8:10:04 PM PDT by Beave Meister
Attorney General Jeff Sessions late Friday night fired former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, a little more than 24 hours before McCabe was set to retire.
Sessions announced the decision in a statement just before 10 p.m., noting that both the Justice Department Inspector General and the FBI office that handles discipline had found “that Mr. McCabe had made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor — including under oath — on multiple occasions.”
He said based on those findings and the recommendation of the department’s senior career official, “I have terminated the employment of Andrew McCabe effective immediately.”
The move will likely cost McCabe a significant portion of his retirement benefits, though it is possible he could bring a legal challenge. McCabe has been fighting vigorously to keep his job, and on Thursday, he spent nearly four hours inside the Justice Department pleading his case.
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On the TSP (401k) side, he’ll keep all of that intact. The monthly pension check will be problem. One can only take a guess, but his TSP (if contributed fair amounts into it), might add up to $400k to $500k.
The problem I see is that he’s only 49. He couldn’t really turn on the TSP until age 55, without some penalty.
He’ll fight this in court but that’ll burn up at least $100k on lawyer fees. And he probably won’t win the case.
They wouldn’t have been outed if Hillary had won.
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Trump has bashed Sessions in some of his tweets. That means Trump is either trying to throw the Deep State off the scent; or else he means it and Sessions deserves the bashing he gets.
Which is it it?
Actually a doubled bladed insane homocidal amazon bitch on coke with a bad attitude on her good days.
“He can’t possibly lose it all. He’ll lose whatever hasn’t fully vested yet.”
I’m not sure exactly which rules apply to him, but it’s one day before he turns 50, which I bet is the magical minimum age to be fully vested. I bet it chews into his pension big time.
Can or will there, ever, be any kind of pension reform legislation created that can, successfully, take away pensions from individuals who have been found guilty of committing a crime(s)? Ditto, taking away the pension benefits of present AND, AT THE SAME TIME, former politicians, whenever the present politicians aren’t doing the jobs that they are supposed to do, as an incentive for making sure that “political incompetence” is abolished, to the best of human abilities? True Pension Reforms, for each and every level of politician AND judge, AND for, both, present and past politicians and judges, are so badly needed, asap!
If he does, he might commit Arkancide.
shot over the bow” by Sessions.
???...problem being he’ll probably wait till Hilda falls down every set
of stairs on the great wall of China
before going further
20mins20secs in: Ingraham/Dershowitz on Dems defending the Intel agencies.
16 Mar: Youtube: 59mins49secs: The Ingraham Angle 3/16/18 | Fox News March 16, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imt1wMKVpuE
WOOOHOOO! Thank you President Donald J. Trump.
“He will lose his health insurance coverage since he won’t be taking IMMEDIATE retirement.”
Good thing thing for him there’s Obamacare! LOL
One word: schadenfreude.
Didn’t McCabe sign at least one of the fraudelent, seditious FISA apps?
He doesn't lose his pension since he is "Vested" in the plan. What it means is that when he does start his pension it will be significantly reduced and he won't be eligible for health care.............
I’m hoping it is the initial greasing of the wheels by Sessions....
Exactly. The firing is meant to be punitive. What it means is that Mr. "Recused to the Nth Degree" Jeff Sessions, who has bent over backwards to distance himself from anything touching the current troubles, is convinced that the case against McCabe is so overwhelming that he can't be allowed to beat the rap by skating into a golden retirement.
Firing someone the day before he's due to retire, and dinging his retirement as he's on the way out the door, is akin to shooting the wounded. You only do that if you're convinced that the wounded deserve to be shot. The odds on criminal charges against McCabe and others just jumped significantly, but such charges should be brought soon, well before the elections. And should Democrats retake the House, any Democratic congressman who monkeys around with those proceedings should face obstruction charges himself.
Hilarious
“He can’t possibly lose it all. He’ll lose whatever hasn’t fully vested yet.”
Where I worked, that was the case. Even though it didn’t apply to me (I was a recent hire), my understanding of the rules for long-term employees was that if someone quits (or was fired) one day before retirement age, he would have lost about 33% of his monthly benefits (versus retiring a day later)...still got something, but not nearly as much.
BUT, he would have also lost his retirement medical - completely, by quitting early. He’s 50 years old - and now can enjoy his boss’s medical plan (Obamacare) for the next 15 years. I suspect that’s what REALLY scared the hell out of him.
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