Walpin….gate?

Posted by Mark Noonan in Barack Hussein Obama, Corruption, Democrats on June 19th, 2009 at 04:29am with 10 responses.
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It gets more interesting:

… the news out of Sacramento today may have a bigger ultimate effect in stoking the story. The Acting US Attorney there, Lawrence Brown, confirmed to the Sacramento Bee that the FBI is probing obstruction of justice allegations made by a former executive of St. HOPE, the local non-profit, formerly led by Johnson, that Walpin had been looking into.

Rick Maya, who officially quit last week as St. HOPE’s executive director, claimed in a resignation letter written in April that a member of the St. HOPE’s board deleted Johnson’s emails during Walpin’s investigation into the misuse of funds at the non-profit.

Brown’s office now says it has asked the FBI to look into that allegation.

We might need one of them, thar Independent Counsel thingies to get to the bottom of this – better for Obama and Co to come clean, right now…allow this to fester and it will just get worse.

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Mark Noonan is co-author (with Matt Margolis) of Caucus of Corruption: The Truth About The New Democratic Majority. He also blogs at Nevada News and Views. Follow Mark on Twitter.

10 Responses to “Walpin….gate?”

  1. winnowhead says:
    June 19, 2009 at 5:48 am

    Keep grasping at straws… the only difference between these fabricated wrongdoings and the fabricated wrongdoings of Watergate is that there’s is no shameless Republican majority in congress to give it legitimacy. We’ll see how well the echo chamber works this time around…

  2. leadeconomist says:
    June 19, 2009 at 5:57 am

    Deleted – off topic.

  3. js02 says:
    June 19, 2009 at 7:47 am

    the only difference between these wrongdoings and the wrongdoings of Watergate is that there is a shameless democrat majority in congress to give it legitimacy….surely you wouldnt even think about barry oblunder lending a hand to his buddies, would ya?

    after all…the firing of walpin didnt occur in may…when he brought the hammer down on these….nitwits…in sacramento….it occured a few short days AFTER walpins june letter about the new york branch:

    “The [Fellows Program at] City University of New York is the largest AmeriCorps program,” Mr. Walpin told us. “The corporation board clearly did not like the idea that we were holding that their largest program was invalid.”

    the real coverup is in new york

    sacramento is just a distraction from the big hit, less than one million dollar scandal in Colifornia….more than 100 million dollar scandal in NYC….who would have ever known…that the NYC thing is brewing right under the feet of a guy who bundled for barryoblunder….such a huge coincidence!!

    “The board chairman is Alan Solomont, a longtime top Democratic donor who bundled more than $800,000 combined for the Obama presidential campaign and Inauguration. He had been a Democratic appointee on the AmeriCorps board since 2000 before Mr. Obama elevated him to chairman. “

    so they minimize the damage by putting the spotlight on california…hoping nobody pays attention to the crimes commited by “long time top donkeyrat donor/bundler” in NYC…

  4. cluster says:
    June 19, 2009 at 9:23 am

    What I enjoyed the most was yesterdays statement from the administration that firing Walpin was an act of……wait for it…..”political courage”

    So it now takes political courage for the man in the highest office of the country to fire a relative nobody? LMAO

    Then came the personal attacks on Walpin’s mental stability. You gotta love Chicago politics.

  5. js02 says:
    June 19, 2009 at 2:25 pm

    well…he seemed to act…differently…somehow disoriented…or confused…so he should be fired….LMAO….what a joke of a reason, eh?

  6. kmg1 says:
    June 19, 2009 at 6:57 pm

    It gets more interesting

    It certainly does:

    The White House’s decision to fire the AmeriCorps inspector general was set in motion by a unanimous request it received from the board of the Corporation for National and Community Service, which asked the White House to review the IG’s performance, according to a board member.

    The firing “would not have played itself out” were it not for the fact that the board raised concerns about the IG, Gerald Walpin, after the May 20 board meeting, a board member told TPMmuckraker. The board member added that the White House had no role in encouraging the board to make the review request, calling it “completely board-initiated.” The White House had cited the request from the board in its letter to Congress explaining the reason for Walpin’s firing.

    …

    According to the White House’s letter, the board’s request for a review of Walpin’s performance was unanimous. The co-chairs of the board are Alan Solomont, a Boston entrepreneur who has been a major Democratic fundraiser, and Steven Goldsmith, the Republican former mayor of Indianapolis. Its other members also come from both parties.

    Late Update: A second board member confirms to TPMmuckraker that it was the board’s concerns that led to the firing.

    The second board member said that the board had unanimously directed its chair, Alan Solomont, to inform the White House of the board’s serious concerns about Walpin’s performance, and that Solomont had done so.

    “No action would have been taken if the board had not, on a bipartisan basis, directed the chairman” to talk to the White House, said the second board member. The move was “entirely unanimous — no division at all.”

  7. Mark Noonan says:
    June 19, 2009 at 8:52 pm

    kmg,

    If, that is, you wish to take the word of the people who were hip deep in the corruption of AmeriCorps…more rational people discount whatever the Board has to say on the matter because they have a distinct conflict of interest…it’d be like taking Obama’s word for it that no hanky-panky was involved in the firing.

  8. kmg1 says:
    June 19, 2009 at 9:01 pm

    Are you going to claim again that you haven’t accepted Walpin’s word at face value and discounted everyone else as liars?

  9. amazona says:
    June 21, 2009 at 1:02 pm

    kmg, when something stinks as badly as this whole thing stinks, it is not necessary to accept anyone’s word “at face value” to realize that an investigation is called for.

    And how is it that you automatically buy into the claims of the people being investigated?

  10. kmg1 says:
    June 21, 2009 at 3:42 pm

    I haven’t “bought into” anything. Mark made the statement that Walpin is telling the truth and everyone else is lying, so try to sell him on not taking anything at face value.