Examiner's York gets goods on Americorps
On Friday, The Washington Examiner's chief political correspondent, Byron York, had another stunning report on the scandal involving the firing of Americorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin. Earlier this year, Walpin was fired in what appears to be a politically motivated attempt by Democrats to silence his investigation into allegations of misuse of $800,000 in federal funds by Sacramento mayor and former NBA star Kevin Johnson. The funds were provided by the federal Americorps program to St. Hope, a nonprofit school that Johnson then headed.
York's latest blockbuster is his reporting of a congressional report prepared by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. While probing the misuse of funds allegations, congressional investigators were told that Johnson made improper advances toward three young women at St. Hope. The report also alleges that Michelle Rhee, D.C.'s nationally-celebrated chancellor of schools and now Johnson's fiancee, acted as a fixer for her future husband when she was on the St. Hope board of directors. Rhee allegedly reassured St. Hope employees that she would investigate Johnson's inappropriate conduct. Shortly afterward, Johnson's personal attorney visited one of the young women making the accusations. At about the same time, investigators were told, Johnson offered one of the women $1,000 a month to keep quiet.
Walpin was cleared of any wrongdoing by the Integrity Committee of the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency. The Obama administration still defends the decision to fire Walpin, but a growing body of evidence suggests the president's aides feared Walpin would expose corruption of two rising stars in the Democratic Party.York has doggedly and fairly covered this story from the beginning. Too bad reporters at other mainstream media outlets didn't do the same. To the extent the Walpin story has gotten any attention, the coverage has been appallingly slanted. The latest Los Angeles Times headline, for example, reads, "Republicans criticize dismissal of Americorps watchdog." The facts, which are inconvenient things and belong to no political party, show clearly that Walpin was digging into Democratic malfeasance.
Hat tip to The Washington Examiner
11 comments:
Business as usual for the liberals. I think Lady Justice would gag if she peeked out from under her blindfold.
The importance of a story is inversely proportional to the amount of coverage the fMSM gives it.
The lady has been choked with that blindfold months ago.
Nothing like open and honest leadership. I've lost count of the number of scandals involving this administration. They're multiplying like rats. And they're in good company!
Writer, I've noticed that their entire pile of human waste stinks of something.
I'm still not surprised at what goes on in the Democrat Party. It's too bad most Americans are too lazy to get their news from many sources.
"The greatest casualty with liberalism and greatest casualty in political correctness
is truth -- and that, as we're witnessing, leads to an erosion of freedom." -Rush
I'll paraphrase (but not take credit for) a comment from another site.
"There ain't enough rope on the planet to hang all these assholes."
I couldn't agree more. We need stimulus spending to hire people to make more rope!
Woody, if folks just visited our family of blogs they'd get a the news the can handle.
Rightie, you're rightie. Truth seems to be on life support.
Sig... LOL. Perhaps they'd do so if we made it hemp rope.
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