Posted on 09/06/2010 9:50:04 AM PDT by jazusamo
WASHINGTON – Fired Inspector General Gerald Walpin is asking that his lawsuit challenging his abrupt and apparently illegal dismissal by the Obama administration be reinstated – and he wants a new judge assigned to the case.
A Washington Times editorial published Sept. 1 suggests that District Judge Richard W. Roberts has not presided over Walpin's case with professional impartiality.
The editorial details extensive personal and professional ties between Roberts and Obama Attorney General Eric Holder, the boss of the Department of Justice lawyers defending the administration against Walpin's suit.
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Roberts dismissed Walpin's suit on June 17 of this year, on the grounds that the act does not guarantee that even an illegally fired inspector general will get his job back.
In an August 30 brief, attorneys representing Walpin asked the district court of the District of Columbia to reinstate the case,...
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"On the surface it may not look like much, but the cronyism runs very, very deep here," commented Greg Hedgepath of the Politics & Capitalism blog at the time. "This judge that dismissed the case is somewhat beholden to Eric Holder for his accelerated success in the D.C. Beltway."
Byron York of the Washington Examiner expressed a larger concern: "If the decision by U.S. District Judge Richard Roberts stands, in the future the White House will be able fire other inspectors general as it fired Walpin without fear of legal consequences."
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It was back in 2008 when Walpin was overseeing an investigation of St. HOPE Academy, a charter school founded and operated by Johnson, a former NBA star and self-described friend of Obama, that the case started developing. Walpin referred Johnson to the U.S. attorney's office for criminal and civil prosecution for "false and fraudulent conduct in connection with $845,018.75 in federal funds.
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Walpin was on TV when this all started. He certainly is a very ethical man, so this to me, is showing our nation’s corruption on many levels.
I will continue to believe in Walpin’s case, and pray for him to receive justice.
I couldn’t agree more.
Mr. Walpin discovered corruption and it involved a friend of the Obama’s. He was discredited from the beginning from the White House on down.
District Judge Roberts should be impeached if it can be proven he dismissed this case as a favor to Holder.
Attorney General Eric Holder is destroying our Judicial branch of government, while The Usurper destroys the economy and military.
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