Posted on 07/19/2009 7:08:18 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
Gerald Walpin has not taken his dismissal as Inspector General for the Corporation for National and Community Service lying down yet, and apparently doesn’t plan to go quietly soon, either. Walpin filed a lawsuit against the CNCS for unlawful termination. He accuses the parent agency of AmeriCorps, and indirectly the administration, of politicizing his office and removing him illegally because he refused to agree to a settlement in a fraud case that let an Obama backer off the hook and with access to federal funding:
Gerald Walpin, the AmeriCorps inspector general who was summarily fired in June amid controversy over his investigation of a politically-connected supporter of President Obama, has filed suit alleging that the firing was “unlawful,” “politically driven,” “procedurally defective” and “a transparent and clumsily-conducted effort to circumvent the protections” given to inspectors general under the Inspectors General Reform Act of 2008.
Walpin’s suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, is against the Corporation for National and Community Service, which oversees AmeriCorps. Also named are Nicola Goren, the acting CEO of the Corporation, Frank Trinity, its general counsel, and Raymond Limon, the Corporation’s “chief human capital officer.” The suit asks the court to declare Walpin’s firing unlawful and restore him to his position as the Corporation’s inspector general. …
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Typo in title
Could you please remove the word “posted “from the title and capitalize the words SUES and WRONGFUL TERMINATION in this threads title, please.
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Discovery
I was just going to ask for lawyers opinions on the merits of this case.
Meanwhile there is a complete media blackout of this. One can only imagine how much of a scandal this would have been during the Bush years.
Well, now. Slowly but surely...
“Surely” being the prayer word.
Pretty clear cut case to me. Unless Obama’s Bolsheviks can bribe or threaten a few witnesses or doctor up a few filings, I don’t see how they can justify usurping a law that is this clear cut. Well actually....
You mean “whiteout” don’t ya? Blackout would mean your post is......RACIST!!! GASP///sar
This is a familiar story to me, because of FR and Drudge. But it certainly is CURIOUS how the media have ignored it.
If Bush had done this, it would have been bigger than Watergate.
And it doesn’t take a lot of investigating. It’s clear enough from the get-go that Obama violated the law about formally notifying congress a month before terminating any Inspector General.
Congress, of course, doesn’t care about this usurpation of their branch of government as long as they get their pork. And with Obama in the White House, they get plenty. The biggest pork bills in history.
The media blackout on this case is an atrocity.
We should also be looking into means by which we will (will, not should) try all of our representatives who voted for bills they did not read that contributed to the upcoming collapse.
Laws or not, we have an obligation to our children to catch these perps (yes, they’ll try to flee), try then, and apply the appropriate punishment.
And the punishment will not be pretty.
Gee don’t you know they had others things to report - like MJ’s death. The fact that BO fired him not according to his own law - a good reason plus a 30-day notice.
YET... they have our reps all set up to investigate Cheney/Bush/CIA. I heard on the news yesterday that this was a non case the dems are dredging up old crap and they know it. The pubs were near getting an investigation on Pelosi V. CIA so the rats twisted a story and the MSM fell for it hook line and sinker...of course because they are on the dems side.
Congress will probably just say. Oh investigator, Obama did notify us one month prior to termination. I don’t know why you think otherwise....Oh thank you congress...Case closed.
Could the dems be in trouble; with whistleblowing laws?
Sic ‘em, Gerald!
Waiting for the Dallas Morning News to discover this story.
Excellent, good for him, too bad the media is silent on this.....
Glenn Beck has really been championing this man right along.
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