Posted on 03/16/2009 5:32:17 AM PDT by Scanian
WHO IS VIVEK KUNDRA? The Obama Administration is worried that yet another senior appointee has run into potential ethics issues one week into his new job.
According to one White House source, the Obama Administration asked its newly appointed chief technology officer to take a leave until the Department of Justice could provide the administration with additional information surrounding an FBI raid at the officer's former workplace, the Washington, D.C. Office of the Chief Technology Officer.
CTO Vivek Kundra had resigned from his D.C. post earlier this month to take the White House job; last Thursday the FBI raided the D.C. office, arresting Yusuf Acar, the acting chief security officer of the D.C. Office of the CTO, who was later charged with bribery of a public official, money laundering, wire fraud and conflict of interest. The FBI reported finding $70,000 in Acar's Northwest D.C. home.
When the White House was given head's up about the raid, the Justice Department informed the White House that Kundra was not a target of the investigation, but there are concerns at 1600 Pennsylvania that as more people are swept up in the burgeoning scandal, their appointee may get caught.
Also arrested, and complicating the White House's issues with Kundra, was Sushil Bansal, CEO of Advanced Integrated Technologies Corporation (AITC), who also faces bribery related charges.
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The names sound like Arabs. Terrorist links???
Ah, more “Change we can believe in”!
Nothing to see here, it’s just third world politics.
I believe both of those names are Indian?
Sounds like a storyline from 24.
Only there’s no Jack Bauer.
Dear American Spectator: it’s breach, not breech. Although saying that Obama’s backside is a security risk isn’t that far from the truth, either...
You just can’t make this stuff up. I have never in my whole working life seen any manager pick that many wrong people for the job. This is a very serious issue and it just seems like the attitude of the administration is merely one of “Oh well. Next”!
They were exactly right in Bambi’s view. What further proof do we need ?
An administration full of security risks, hope and change you can believe in.
The security breech is Obama himself. Why worry about small fry. The big fish is in the White House.
Charges we can believe in. Getting to be the new mantra of the DemocRAT party.
from the article: “Also arrested, and complicating the White House’s issues with Kundra, was Sushil Bansal, CEO of Advanced Integrated Technologies Corporation (AITC), who also faces bribery related charges.
Bansal is not a U.S. citizen, and is working here on a visa provided to foreign workers in “specialty” professions. Bansal’s company has done work for the D.C. government since 2004, prior to Kundra’s taking over the technology office. But when Kundra did take over the office, AITC’s business more than doubled.
“What concerns us and the White House Counsel’s office is that Kundra and Bansal seem to have a very tight relationship that was not discussed during the vetting process,” says the White House source. The White House has determined that Kundra and Bansal also did business prior to Kundra’s taking the D.C. job.”
Obama IS a security breach!
Is there a compiled list that I might find of all the senior appointees in the zero administration that have had to step down? If someone could help me with this that would be great.
You’re right. Breach is a security vulnerability, breech is a complication of pregnancy.
Of course, who else would a guy named Baraq Hussein monammed 0bama recruit to help him destroy the USA?
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