[WASHINGTONPOST] A senior National Weather Service official helped write the job description and set the salary for his own post-retirement consulting post-- then came back to the office doing the same job with a $43,200 raise, the agency's watchdog found.
The deputy chief financial officer also demanded that he be paid a $50,000 housing allowance near Weather Service headquarters in downtown Silver Spring in violation of government rules for contractors, one of numerous improprieties in a revolving-door deal sealed with full knowledge of senior agency leaders, according to an investigation by the Commerce Department Inspector General's office.
With his consulting job and housing allowance in place, P. Donald Jiron retired from the Weather Service in early May 2010, then returned to work as a consultant the next day, while collecting his government pension, Sherlocks said. By the time he was fired 21 months later, the government had paid him another $471,875.34.
The investigation made public this week does not name Jiron, who worked as a GS-15 before his retirement and now lives in Williamsburg, Va. But government officials familiar with the case identified him. His lawyer, Matthew Kaiser, said in a statement, "Mr. Jiron has not done anything wrong" because he acted "at the direction of and with the approval of his supervisor at all times."
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Another reason for the Reynolds Revolving Government Employment Tax(c, Glenn Reynolds). Leave government and keep your fingers in the cookie jar, 50% of the new salary above the old, becomes pure tax revenue.
[WASHINGTONPOST] The striking aspect of the Rubio story was its bundling. Though the piece reported 17 combined citations by the couple, the candidate has racked up only four of them. So the weight of the Times's accountability journalism falls on Rubio's wife. "Regarding potential presidential spouses, they are not the main focus, but we write about them, as do other outlets," writes Ryan. "Columba Bush and Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is... have already attracted a fair amount of attention, obviously, and I am sure other spouses will draw more coverage going forward."
A great deal of that coverage will doubtless come from the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , which has been hot on the trail of Democratic frontrunner Hillary Rodham Clinton ... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John Quincy Adams ... and others. The Rubio's-wife-can't-drive piece, after all, may force the paper to undertake an ungodly amount of candidate scrutiny: If news hounds are going to bust out one candidate for drawing traffic citations once every 54 months, then they'll have to hold other candidates to a comparable level of propriety. Hey, is Huckabee a leadfoot?
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When is the NYTs going to start coming forth with Hildabeest stories?
[Wash Times] Sidney Blumenthal, a former aide to President Bill Clinton and a key ally of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, will testify before the House select Committee on Benghazi on June 16, the panel announced Friday.
Mr. Blumenthal will answer questions about memos he drafted on Libya when Mrs. Clinton ran the State Department, Politico reported Friday.
"This appearance before the Select Committee on Benghazi involves a witness deposition, which is typically done in private," an advisory from the committee states, Politico reported.
The session will be closed to the media and the public.
Committee Chairman, Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, raised questions about Mr. Blumenthal's involvement in the State Department's response to the Benghazi attacks on Sept. 11, 2012. The Republican lawmaker did so after reviewing thousands of documents, which showed Mr. Blumenthal and the secretary traded frequent emails on the security and diplomatic climate in Libya before the attacks.
Mr. Blumenthal was not employed at the State Department when he drafted the memos but he was being paid by the Clinton Foundation at the time, Politico reported.
[The Hill] The Social Security Administration overpaid nearly half of the people receiving disability benefits over a 10-year period, according to a new report by the agency's inspector general.
Social Security overpaid beneficiaries by nearly $17 billion, the report estimated, between October 2003 and February 2014.
The agency was able to recover about $8.1 billion of it, the report said.
Many of the payments were delivered to people who either were no longer disabled or to earned too much money to qualify. Some payments went to people who were in prison or had died.
The inspector general followed a randomly selected sample of 1,532 over that 10-year period who either received disability benefits or supplemental security income for the poor.
Auditors found that 45 percent of the beneficiaries were overpaid at some point during the decade by $2.9 million. Based on that result, the inspector general estimated Social Security overpaid $16.8 million from 2003 to 2014.
The report comes just a year before the Social Security Disability Trust Fund is projected to be exhausted, and lawmakers on Capitol Hill are divided over how to handle the shortfall. If Congress fails to act, beneficiaries would receive a nearly 20 percent cut in benefits.
Republicans largely oppose keeping the disability fund afloat by reallocating revenue from the Social Security retirement fund to the disability fund. The GOP-led House in January approved a rule that would make a reallocation of the payroll tax more difficult.
Instead, GOP lawmakers have said they'd like to focus on program integrity initiatives to weed out fraud and abuse to find savings. Anyone wonder why some unemployed people 'have stopped looking' for jobs ?
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I often wonder what the total cost to the taxpayer is for SS disability, welfare, crony capitalism, fraud, illegal immigration, aid to foreign countries that never gets where it is supposed --in other words, fraud of all kinds?
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The taxpayer only pays a small part of the cost. The government is going massively into debt to pay the rest, debt that will never be repaid. It's all good!
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The problem is that if they started cracking down, somebody would find one person who was wrongfully denied benefits. This would be "proof" that Republicans are heartless bastards.
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Not to worry... There's literally trillions of IRAs and 401Ks out there the government can "manage" for the greater good of the looter class.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
