Was IG Walpin fired because he uncovered hush money scandal?

The more we read about this scandal, the more we become convinced that the Inspector General Walpin who was fired illegally had the goods on a Friend of Obama. This has it all sex, scandal, hush money, and cover-up all uncovered by Walpin against the Mayor of Sacramento and Friend of Obama, former NBA player Johnson.

What does that tell you? It tells us that a Friend of Obama is immune from prosecution for anything they do. In the Obama world, all is legit as long as they continue to donate and support Obama no matter the crime and the person who discovers the crime is the one who will be fired.

We seem to remember Obama saying he was going to have the most "transparent administration in history." Now we are asking what he meant by that. Some members of the media as they touted the most "transparent administration in history" wrongly assumed it meant everything in the Administration would by open to review. Boy, were they wrong. We know Democrats lie to get elected but this was a whopper of a lie. This Administration doesn't seem to care if they get caught in a lie, they keep right on doing what they were doing. Transparent -- not even a little.

We thought the White House was FOR SALE under Clinton but Bill and Hillary cannot hold a candle to Obama and the Chicago thugs in charge now. They have taken FOR SALE to a whole new level having Government paid people brief various Democrat fundraisers. Nothing is off limits with this group.

Maybe one of these days, they will sell the White House lawn in small pieces for donations and have the taxpayers put in a new lawn? Why not, it would raise money for Democrats and Obama who is in charge of the White House FOR SALE policy.

Read the background on why Walpin was fired and ask yourself what the Obama Administration is doing being the scenes which we have a feeling is even worse.

November 21, 2009

Was IG Walpin fired because he uncovered hush money scandal?
Rick Moran

In normal America, this would be a hot story; Inspector General fired by the White House (illegally) for uncovering a scandal involving a friend of the president who paid hush money to women to keep them from talking about his sexual harassment of them.

And to make the scandal juicier, the president's friend's girlfriend - the Chancellor of public schools in Washington, D.C. - helped him cover up the wrongdoing.

Now doesn't that sound like a juicy scandal? It's got everything; sexual wrongdoing, pro sports, people in high places, cover up, bribery, and a connection to the President of the United States.

But this isn't "normal" America. This is Obama's America where such stories that might have sunk a Republican president are considered "distractions" and not worthy of covering.

To fill in some of the names; Former pro-basketball star now Mayor of Sacramento Kevin Johnson, a personal friend and supporter of the president, evidently got a little too friendly with at least three women who he paid to hush up his "inappropriate advances."

Enter the Inspector General Gerald Walpin who oversees Americorps and whose investigation had already revealed irregularities in the use of that agency's money by Johnson, including paying kids to wash his car and expensing items from his campaign.

When Walpin tried to have Johnson brought up on charges, the U.S. attorney balked and settled the matter without going to trial (Johnson's charity, St. Hope, paid back more than $800,000 to Americorps). Walpin, quite rightly, was furious and took the matter to the Americorps board where he discovered to his chagrin that a new wind was blowing through Washington and the board members didn't want to anger president Obama.

The result was that an Obama supporter on the board fired off a letter to the White House demanding that Walpin be fired. The excuse was that he was basically senile and that it was imperative that he be removed immediately - despite a law that protected IG's from this kind of summary treatment.

This all happened last spring. Well, now Johnson's peccadilloes have been revealed by congressional investigators along with the attempt to buy the silence of women. And "damage control was handled by none other than Michelle Rhee, then on the board of one of Americorp's charities, now Chancellor of the DC public school system.Byron York of the Examiner has the juicy details:

The employee told investigators that Rhee told her that "she was making this her number one priority, and she would take care of the situation." A short time later, the employee learned that the girl who had complained about Johnson had received a visit from Johnson's personal attorney.The congressional report quotes the girl as saying the attorney "basically asked me to keep quiet," and Johnson offered her $1,000 a month for the duration of her time with St. Hope. Once investigators learned about that, the report says, they had "reasonable suspicions about potential hush money payments and witness tampering at a federally funded entity."

Excerpt: Read More at American Thinker and Byron York,The Examiner