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[Spirit of Ronald Reagan]

Obama Plans to Fire AmeriCorps Inspector General Over Scandal

President Obama plans to fire the inspector general who investigates AmeriCorps and other national service programs amid a controversy between the IG and Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, who is an Obama supporter and former NBA basketball star.

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Obama Plans to Fire AmeriCorps Inspector General Over Scandal

"The IG found that Johnson, a former all-star point guard for the Phoenix Suns, had used AmeriCorps grants to pay volunteers to engage in school-board political activities, run personal errands for Johnson and even wash his car.

In August 2008, Walpin referred the matter to the local U.S. attorney's office, which said the IG's conclusions seemed overstated and did not accurately reflect all the information gathered in the investigation.

We also highlighted numerous questions and further investigation they needed to conduct, including the fact that they had not done an audit to establish how much AmeriCorps money was actually misspent," the U.S. attorney's office said in an April 29 letter to the federal counsel of inspectors general. Walpin's office made repeated public comments just before the Sacramento mayoral election, prompting the U.S. attorney's office to inform the media that it did not intend to file any criminal charges. The U.S. attorney's office reached a settlement in the matter. Brown cited press accounts that said Johnson and the nonprofit would repay half of nearly $850,000 in grants it received.

So if you are an FOB you can get away with theft. Anyone who blows the whistle gets fired.

[Jayhawk]

It seems if you're an Inspector General you can't find dirt about Osamy's pals or you'll get fired. This just reeks of corruption.

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[kmdiaopm]

It seems if you're an Inspector General you can't find dirt about Osamy's pals or you'll get fired. This just reeks of corruption.

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Wait til he get's around to the US attorneys.

[thumbelina]

Obama’s Americorps scandal — and the First Lady’s meddling

[bewitched]

I like the new plan to bulldoze failing cities.
This is sooo crazy.
Wonder what will happen when population is displaced in the US in favor of Obama's protection.

[Jayhawk]

This firing of an IG with no proven bad behavior or other stated offense reeks horribly of corruption. Removing an IG for misconduct or malfeasance is one thing, removing them for investigating your pals is quite another. This should be a full blown scandal.

It looks like the dimwittocRATS want to bulldoze down all the slums they have created so no one can complain about what they have done to our cities with their stupid welfare programs. They have turned the inner cities into blighted war zones in about 35 years.

[Jayhawk]

This IG matter is a stench. The MSM should be reporting this atrocity but don't touch it---too corrupt to report it.

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[Los Pepes]

GAFFNEY: America's first Muslim president?
Obama aligns with the policies of Shariah-adherents
GAFFNEY: America's first Muslim president? - Washington Times

[Isis]

This firing of an IG with no proven bad behavior or other stated offense reeks horribly of corruption. Removing an IG for misconduct or malfeasance is one thing, removing them for investigating your pals is quite another. This should be a full blown scandal.

I smell a RAT

The RAT hiding deep inside the stimulus bill

In the name of accountability and transparency, Congress has given the RAT Board the authority to ask “that an inspector general conduct or refrain from conducting an audit or investigation.” If the inspector general doesn’t want to follow the wishes of the RAT Board, he’ll have to write a report explaining his decision to the board, as well as to the head of his agency (from whom he is supposedly independent) and to Congress. In the end, a determined inspector general can probably get his way, but only after jumping through bureaucratic hoops that will inevitably make him hesitate to go forward.

When Iowa Republican Sen. Charles Grassley, a longtime champion of inspectors general, read the words “conduct or refrain from conducting,” alarm bells went off. The language means that the board — whose chairman will be appointed by the president — can reach deep inside a federal agency and tell an inspector general to lay off some particularly sensitive subject. Or, conversely, it can tell the inspector general to go after a tempting political target.