Nepotism. Literally.
ATF doing real homework
While everyone else is distracted by by Republicans and their under-age sexual high-jinks, First Draft are keeping their eye on the corruption ball:
The Adults Are In Charge
Posted by Holden_C on Wednesday, October 11 @ 16:08:34 CDT (89 reads)
The man who stepped down recently as director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ordered his staff to help with his nephew’s high school homework, wasting the agency’s time and resources and violating ethics rules, a Justice Department inquiry concluded Wednesday.
The nephew’s project — a documentary about the ATF that took 10 months to complete — was one of a half-dozen examples of lapses in judgment Carl J. Truscott committed before he resigned in August, according to the report by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine.
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Apparently up to 20 employees were detailed to help with the homework project. The nephew got an A. How nice for him. But that’s not all:
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Fine opened the investigation after he and Special Counsel Scott J. Bloch received an anonymous letter dated Jan. 20, 2006.
It contended that Truscott had horribly mismanaged federal dollars in a variety of ways, including demanding a larger security detail than needed, making unnecessary upgrades to the new ATF headquarters building project, and taking expensive trips to London, New York City, Boston, and Ottawa on the agency’s bill. The letter also complained that Truscott created a hostile work environment by directing two staffers to serve lunch to him and his guests.
Ah, the entitled generation, don’t you just love them? They treat everyone, including senior civil servants, as their personal body-slaves (“But they deserve it! They have no trust funds, they only have their salaries – what a bunch of losers!”) and they use taxpayers’ funds as their own personal piggybank, blatantly and with no sense of shame.
Fuckers.
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