UPDATE (10:00 a.m.): So who was the lax supervisor that didn’t fire him or make him pay back the money?
Why, it was Steven Rosenbaum — the same lawyer who (along with Loretta King) told Christian Adams and Chris Coates to dismiss the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case.
Readers of PJ Media may recall that Rosenbaum admitted to Coates that he hadn’t even read their legal memoranda about the case when he ordered them to dismiss it.
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Every time you think the stories of unprofessionalism, radical ideology, and partisanship out of the Holder Justice Department and particularly the Civil Rights can’t get any worse, they do. See this Washington Times story today about a Voting Section employee who used taxpayer travel funds to finance his romance with a woman who is the president of an unidentified organization. His punishment? A 7-day suspension! They didn’t even take away his government credit card.
Wow, a new corruption story. I’m shocked. Shocked!
But I’m glad we picked up the tab(Or at least loaned) so he could get laid. That’s awesome. It’s even more awesome that he’s still employed, with the card, and his nice little retirement package. That’s great!
I wonder who he knows that kept him from being fired. Gotta love our public employees. Class acts, every one of them…
Jobs saved! (His, part of the travel office, airline, etc. people)… therefore, administration promises kept!
Last summer USA Today ran a study showing that federal employees are more likely to be removed from the payroll because they died of natural causes than be terminated from their jobs for performance related issues. The annual termination rate was almost 5 times lower than the average for the private sector.
I don’t understand. Why would you fire them if they die?? Wouldn’t their performance go up??
Barth wins!
Getting your family and friends on the gummint payroll has been the goal in European society – think Greece – for decades. What’s not to like? The civilian sheep drudge away at their 9-to-5 labors, and are taxed to provide you with your sinecure.
They haven’t quite worked out what to do when the sinecurists outnumber the sheep. Loot, burn and riot comes first to mind, but those tactics aren’t ‘sustainable’. Maybe keeping the gummint small isn’t such a bad idea after all.
Government graft: nice work, if you can get it…
When I clicked on the link, all I got was the front page of PJMedia. I didn’t really want to dig through 40-50 headlines to find the story, but I scrolled through them. Not obvious which one is the one you’re discussing.’
I have what may seem like a radical idea: next time link to the actual Washington Times story. Alternatively, you could just link to Google and let me dig around and find it for myself, I guess.
Sheesh.
Here’s the link. The original poster did link to the Washington Times story, but accidentally pasted a space in the link.
The story is
Taxpayers financed Justice official’s romantic travel
By Chuck Neubauer
The Washington Times
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/5/justice-official-financed-romantic-travel-with-tax/
You don’t fire them after they die. They just move to Chicago and keep collecting and voting.
I know this is not really important, but people ought to know. When you have a government credit card, the individual has to pay the balance on that card. If the charge is official business you can turn in the receipts and get paid back, if not you can’t. You’re not supposed to charge anything that is not official business, but if you do you have to pay it any way. It is not a freebee.
It is a freebie if your corrupt and incompetent boss approves everything without checking.
if my wife or i did this we owuld be fired immediately
sometimes i just wann moce to cuence ecuador and give up on the US
my God can’t even more than 50 percent of the people vote in elections, or pay federal taxes
That name, “The Department of Justice” is more and more Orwellian each day.