American Diplomat Ran Consulate Like Party Pad

The Post reported that Aurelia Fedenisn, an investigator at the department’s inspector-general office, wrote a memo outlining eight cases of supposed sexual misconduct, but that they were removed from an IG report.

The allegations included US Ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutman soliciting prostitutes, including minors, and at least seven agents in Clinton’s security detail hiring hookers while traveling with her to Russia and Colombia.

The soap opera in Italy unfolded in the fall of 2010, when Moore became the Naples consul general after serving in the same capacity at the US Embassy in Port au Prince, Haiti. As a senior foreign-service officer, Moore could make as much as $179,700 a year, State Department data says.

Within days, he allegedly bedded a consulate employee, a single mom who fell in love with him.

http://newyorkcourtcorruption.blogspot.com/2013/06/former-state-department-employee-kerry.html

Howard, who made about $16,000 annually in her part-time position, said that her office was moved five times without notification and that she was excluded from meetings and forbidden from attending a staff photo-op with Sen. John McCain.

Howard says Caplis grilled her for the names of staffers speaking about Moore’s relationships and, in one meeting, screamed she was a “backstabber.”

Colleagues ganged up on her, and one State Department security officer told her, “You better be careful, because they are out to get you,” according to Howard’s affidavit in the Office of Civil Rights investigation.

Howard was clearer, however, in a recent memo to Feinstein.

“It is also now known that the consul general entertains prostitutes, escorts and married women in his residence during the day during work hours,” she wrote.

“These women enter and leave the consulate via the front entrance . . . His household staff are required to clean his bathroom and change his linens after each woman leaves.”

Only Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) office replied to Howard’s letters.

http://newyorkcourtcorruption.blogspot.com/2013/06/former-state-department-employee-kerry.html

The allegations, however, have not hurt Moore, who is currently an instructor at the Air War College in Montgomery, Ala, a position that a college spokesman said is paid for by the State Department.

What about other employees listed in the IG report?

According to the Post:

Chuck Lisenbee, a former Beirut security officer who was being probed for allegedly sexually assaulting local guards, is now a special agent in Washington for the Office of Diplomatic Vehicles, Enforcement and Outreach, according to a State Department phone directory. Agents were only given three days to investigate the allegations against him, according to the memo.

Brett McGurk — a former senior adviser to the ambassador to Iraq — was appointed the deputy assistant secretary for Iraq and Iran in August, according to the State Department Web site. He was President Obama’s nominee for ambassador to Iraq but withdrew after his extramarital affair with a Wall Street Journal reporter was exposed.

According to the memo, investigators never interviewed McGurk because Clinton’s chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, intervened.

Gutman was allowed to retire in July. A State Department investigator found Gutman solicited “sexual favors from both prostitutes and minor children,” according to the memo. The IG’s Office is reviewing the charges and the department’s procedures and plans to release a followup report.

http://www.examiner.com/article/critics-clinton-state-department-swept-sex-scandals-under-the-rug

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