Obama breaks the law: Obama fires AmeriCorps Attorney General

[Brn2bfree]

Obama fires watchdog who barked at his crony

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President Barack Obama says he has lost confidence in the inspector general who investigates AmeriCorps and other national service programs and has told Congress he is removing him from the position. Obama's move follows an investigation by IG Gerald Walpin of Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, who is an Obama supporter

Yes folks ...he will go after those who appose him or his cronies. Obama is a thug and that's what thugs do.

 

[garyd]

Chicago politics nationally.

 

[Annie]

It's an interesting story, seems the IG was very partisan, but not necessarily in the job. Time will tell.

Seeking Answers on IG Firing, Sen. Grassley Asks About Possible Role of First Lady's Office - Political Punch

Seeking Answers on IG Firing, Sen. Grassley Asks About Possible Role of First Lady's Office
June 15, 2009 10:18 AM

In an email and fax sent late Friday, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, demanded that Alan D. Solomont, the chairman of the Corporation for National and Community Service, provide "any and all records, email, memoranda, documents, communications, or other information, whether in draft or final form" related to President Obama's firing of CNCS Inspector General Gerald Walpin.

Walpin had investigated Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson's community service organization, St. HOPE Academy, which confessed to misusing AmeriCORPS grants. In April of this year, St. HOPE Academy agreed to pay a $423,836.50 settlement -- $72,836.50 of which would be paid personally by Mayor Johnson.

"For reasons that I do not yet understand, the OIG was excluded from this proceeding and the settlement lifting the suspension, was done in complete disregard of the OIG’s findings, as well as the previous determination of wrong doing identified in the Notice of Suspension," Grassley wrote. "Perhaps the settlement agreement was reached without any input from the OIG, because less than half of what was misused by the Corporation grantees is being returned to the taxpayer and the OIG would not have agreed to this arrangement. In fact, an argument can be made that not even half of the misused funds is being returned, because the settlement does not require that payment in full be made. Rather the settlement places the grantees on a type of payment plan that will occur over a decade; to date less than 10% of the misused money has been recovered."...