Posted on 05/06/2016 6:46:06 AM PDT by IChing
Almost immediately after Federal Bureau of Prisons Inmate #11109-017 completed a 14-month sentence for using sensitive credit card data on his previous employer’s computer system to steal $70,000, he was hired by the Department of Veterans Affairs in a position that ultimately led to his present job — running an office racked with credit card fraud and bribery problems.
Braxton Linton is prosthetics service chief at the Caribbean Veterans Affairs hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Service chiefs are the top officials in each department in VA hospitals. VA prosthetics offices procure all assistive devices and use government credit cards so often that they are called “prosthetics purchase cards.”
Linton is at least the second convicted felon working in management at the federal hospital in San Juan. The civil service employees union local there recently got an employee reinstated despite her involvement in an armed robbery by arguing that she can’t be discriminated against since the hospital’s human resources manager remains on the job despite being a convicted sex offender.
Linton’s story began in 1998 when he was working as a night clerk in a dorm at the University of Florida and stole mail from freshman students, using their private information to apply for credit cards and racking up $70,000 in purchases.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/05/05/feds-put-credit-card-felon-in-charge-of-major-va-purchasing-program/#ixzz47sp8Q7Bl
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Used to be that when a teenager hacked a major company’s network infrastructure, said teenager was hired to lead the security team. I’ve personally worked with 3 individuals who “hacked” their way into high-paying corporate jobs and are now some of the best white-hat hackers I know.
This, however, is next-level retarded.
Didn’t think you could call them felons anymore. Hurts their job chances.
Probably an Obama appointee?
For sure an Obama contributor.
I was half wishing it was one of those kinds of situations, but unfortunately far from it....this is beyond insane
No doubt about it.
Making sure that Vets get top quality people taking care of them.
This must be how having your feet raked through the coals feels like.
I’m so furious.
We really need to have some accountability in the VA and they do everything in their power to avoid it. It sickens me. I don’t know where to even begin to fix the system.
The VA bureaucrats will fight a Veteran to the death over a nickel while they (the bureaucrats) are stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars.
And Congress is Allowing ALL OF IT, Way to Go Paul Ryan!!
Congress has ALL the power in washington, the executive and judicial branch operate according to the whims of CONGRESS!
Congress can Remove the President
Congress can remove the head of every executive agency Congress can remove ALL of their employees
Congress can Abolish every agency they so choose
Congress can remove EVERY JUDGE IN AMERICA, including every supreme court justice.
Congress can abolish every federal court except the supreme Court
Congress can decide which cases the Judicial Branch can hear and decide
CONGRESS can Imprison ANYONE they want for any reason they so desire for as long as they wish.
Congress can declare WAR
No other governing body has even 10% of the power CONGRESS has!!
CONGRESS IS ALLOWING ALL OF IT!!!
Congress has the authority to arrest and imprison those found in Contempt. The power extends throughout the United States and is an inherent power (does not depend upon legislated act)
If found in Contempt the person can be arrested under a warrant of the Speaker of the House of Representatives or President of the Senate, by the respective Sergeant at Arms.
Statutory criminal contempt is an alternative to inherent contempt.
Under the inherent contempt power Congress may imprison a person for a specific period of time or an indefinite period of time, except a person imprisoned by the House of Representatives may not be imprisoned beyond adjournment of a session of Congress.
Imprisonment may be coercive or punitive.
Some references
[1] Joseph Story’s Commentaries on the Constitution, Volume 2, § 842 http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/print_documents/a1_5s21.html
[2] Anderson v. Dunn - 19 U.S. 204 - “And, as to the distance to which the process might reach, it is very clear that there exists no reason for confining its operation to the limits of the District of Columbia; after passing those limits, we know no bounds that can be prescribed to its range but those of the United States.” http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/19/204/case.html
[3] Jurney v. MacCracken, 294 U.S. 125 http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/294/125/case.html 73rd Cong., 78 Cong. Rec. 2410 (1934) https://archive.org/details/congressionalrec78aunit
[4] McGrain v. Daugherty, 273 U.S. 135 - Under a warrant issued by the President of the Senate the Deputy to the Senate Sergeant at Arms arrested at Cincinnati, Ohio, Mally S. Daugherty, who had been twice subpoenaed by the Senate and twice failed to appear. http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/273/135/case.html
[5] Rules of the House of Representatives, Rule IV Duties of the Sergeant at Arms - [] execute the commands of the House, and all processes issued by authority thereof, directed to him by the Speaker. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/HMAN-105/pdf/HMAN-105-pg348.pdf
[6] An analysis of Congressional inquiry, subpoena, and enforcement http://www.constitutionproject.org/documents/when-congress-comes-calling-a-primer-on-the-principles-practices-and-pragmatics-of-legislative-inquiry/
And here is what the OFFICIAL DEMONRAT PUBLICATIONS SAY:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/opinion/04tue4.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2007/04/house_arrest.html
I think we ain’t seen nuttin yet. Obama is letting felons out en masse, and forbidding Fed offices and maybe Fed contractors from asking about felony records or doing background checks because, apparently, records checks are racist or something.
We are going to see many (former) felons in charge of more and more.
You can quote me- “When criminals get voted in they pass laws enabling other criminals”.
There’s a picture with the article, the main culprit is a black guy, not sure about the others in the story....for starters we need to get rid of the whole thing about “protected” classes of people in employment....
A congress of baboons
Even as numb as I’ve gotten to all the corruption everywhere, this story just floors me
I don’t know where to even begin to fix the system...........Dissolve the VA. Sell all buildings, property at once to the private sector with oversight on the sellers. Put that money in the VA operating budget. Give vouchers to the Vet for care in private Dr.’s, Hospitals and hospices. Get the Gubbmint out, get private business in.
Liberals believe that doing time invariably cures people of their felonious ways.
Especially if there is EEO involved.
I disagree with the article’s premise... they did NOT put a felon in charge... The DOJ stopped using the word “felon” this very week, because of its negative connotations (no sarcasm)
At least some skill was needed to hack. This is just plain low down thievery.
On this same thought: If a government agency is not allowed to do a criminal background check on an applicant, should they be allowed to look at a veterans DD-214 that might have an other than honorable/dishonorable discharge?
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