Official resignation thread

[FUNdamental]

With the guilty plea of Les Crawford today, I have now officially lost count how many Bush administration/Congressional Republicans that have been raided, indicted/convicted/abruptly resigned over a cloud of suspicion “to spend more time with their families,” or went to jail. I am sure I have missed several dozen, but here is my count, so far,

J. Clifford Baxter — Republican Inner Circle Member, sued over Enron ripoffs, died

Thomas Noe — Coingate/Bush Pioneer indicted, convicted, imprisoned
David H. Safavian — Bush aide/Abramoff agent indicted, resigned, convicted, imprisoned

John Ashcroft — why did Soaring Eagle resign? Plamegate? Anyway, he immediately became one of K Street’s top lobbyists.

Michael Brown — resigns as FEMA boss after Katrina disaster

Scooter Libby — indicted, resigned

Jack Abramoff — indicted, convicted, imprisoned, still bringing people down

Duke Cunningham — indicted, resigned, convicted, imprisoned

Kyle “Dusty” Foggo — resigns No. 3 CIA post, investigated by CIA Inspector General over Hookergate

Porter Goss — resigns CIA chief job along with Foggo

Claude Allen — Bush’s top domestic policy adviser resigns to “spend more time with family,” actually caught robbing local department stores

Tom DeLay — resigns as Majority Leader and then as congressman for being a crook & all-around hard liner.

Phillip Merrill — ExIm Bank boss, undersecretary of defense & NATO ambassador, suicide

William H. Lash — assistant secretary of commerce, “shoots self”

Bob Ney — indicted, convicted, resigns, rehab, prison

Ted Stevens — Feds raid family offices and homes in Alaska

Mark Foley — resigned, rehab, FBI investigating

Susan Ralston — resigned as Karl Rove’s special aide after Abramoff bribes revealed

Curt Weldon — FBI raids homes and offices of family and business associates; grand jury about to indict

Lester Crawford — resigns FDA, indicted by DoJ, pleads guilty

Claude Allen, Bush's domestic policy advisor, was arrested for ripping off Target and Hecht's buy presenting items for return that he'd neglected to actually purchase.

Paul Wolfowitz, effectively ran running and screaming from Iraq, leaving the President high and dry.

If you can think of any others, please add on.

Thanks!

[FUNdamental]

How could I forget John T. Korsmo,the Former Chair of the Federal Housing Finance Board? He pled guilty and admitted that he lied to a U.S. Senate committee and federal agents investigating his role in a congressional fund-raising event.

And, of course, his wife, Michelle Larson Korsmo, she resigned in disgrace from a political position with the Labor Department for her involvement in the same cover up.

I am sure there are more out there we are forgetting; add to this thread if you remembers others not listed so far.

[FUNdamental]

Is it too soon to add to the list Republican Congressman Jerry Weller for his activities concerning pages??

[mrbowler]

This is actually a good game...conga conga conga

Hey-I was just checking my corruption thread-maybe not high enough to count

Brian J. Doyle

Department of Homeland Security official was arrested Tuesday night on charges of using his computer to seduce a child after he allegedly struck up sexually explicit conversations with a detective posing as a 14-year-old girl, authorities said

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[mrbowler]

Originally Posted by FUNdamental

Is it too soon to add to the list Republican Congressman Jerry Weller for his activities concerning pages??

I would put on the list with Dennis Hastert....and Off topic Harry Reid

[LBSO]

Isn't Bill Frist (R-TN) being investigated by the FTC for some possible insider stock transactions?

[mrbowler]

Originally Posted by LBSO

Isn't Bill Frist (R-TN) being investigated by the FTC for some possible insider stock transactions?

I have not followed the dealings of Bill Frist-I looked a little, but it appears a investigation was talked about, but I don't have any information on what the outcome. Did find this 2000 article about HCA-settlement in fraud.

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"HCA conspired to defraud government health insurance plans, including Medicare, which covers the elderly; Medicaid, which covers the poor; and Tricare, which covers the military and their families.

The fraud investigation became public in March 1997 when FBI agents raided HCA hospitals and offices in several states."

[FUNdamental]

Originally Posted by mrbowler

I would put on the list with Dennis Hastert....and Off topic Harry Reid

While Reid may be on the less savory side, with his family as pigs at the trough, the land deal he engaged in was completely on the up and up- the only negative there is that he didn't file the appropriate paperwork to notify the house of what he had done. While this is certainly a breach of protocol, it is of such minimal import that to even acknowledge it shows the desperation of the right to find fault on the left.

But back tothe subject at hand; I forgot a good one!

Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, who sparked controversy by asserting that programs carried by public broadcasters have a liberal bias, resigned from the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting this month a day after the agency's inspector general delivered a report apparently critical of his leadership.

Tomlinson, a staunch conservative who was CPB's chairman until September, brought unprecedented attention to his agency by publicly criticizing the alleged political favoritism of news programs, primarily those carried by the Public Broadcasting Service. CPB wields great influence over public radio and TV stations through its distribution of about $400 million in federal funding each year.

Despite Tomlinson's high-profile campaign, it was his behind-the-scenes moves that apparently contributed to his departure.

The CPB's inspector general has been investigating Tomlinson's practice of using agency money to hire consultants and lobbyists without notifying the agency's board. Tomlinson last year hired a little-known Indiana consultant to study the political leanings of guests on such programs as "Now With Bill Moyers" and "The Diane Rehm Show" on National Public Radio. He also hired lobbyists to defeat legislation that would have changed how CPB's board is structured.

The inspector, Kenneth Konz, also had been looking into whether Tomlinson violated agency procedures in his recruiting of former Republican National Committee co-chairman Patricia de Stacy Harrison to be CPB's chief executive, and into possible White House influence in the hiring of two in-house ombudsmen to critique news programs on NPR and PBS.

attempted government cencorship of news, I guess.

[FUNdamental]

Originally Posted by mrbowler

I would put on the list with Dennis Hastert....and Off topic Harry Reid

While Reid may be on the less savory side, with his family as pigs at the trough, the land deal he engaged in was completely on the up and up- the only negative there is that he didn't file the appropriate paperwork to notify the house of what he had done. While this is certainly a breach of protocol, it is of such minimal import that to even acknowledge it shows the desperation of the right to find fault on the left.

But back tothe subject at hand; I forgot a good one!

Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, who sparked controversy by asserting that programs carried by public broadcasters have a liberal bias, resigned from the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting this month a day after the agency's inspector general delivered a report apparently critical of his leadership.

Tomlinson, a staunch conservative who was CPB's chairman until September, brought unprecedented attention to his agency by publicly criticizing the alleged political favoritism of news programs, primarily those carried by the Public Broadcasting Service. CPB wields great influence over public radio and TV stations through its distribution of about $400 million in federal funding each year.

Despite Tomlinson's high-profile campaign, it was his behind-the-scenes moves that apparently contributed to his departure.

The CPB's inspector general has been investigating Tomlinson's practice of using agency money to hire consultants and lobbyists without notifying the agency's board. Tomlinson last year hired a little-known Indiana consultant to study the political leanings of guests on such programs as "Now With Bill Moyers" and "The Diane Rehm Show" on National Public Radio. He also hired lobbyists to defeat legislation that would have changed how CPB's board is structured.

The inspector, Kenneth Konz, also had been looking into whether Tomlinson violated agency procedures in his recruiting of former Republican National Committee co-chairman Patricia de Stacy Harrison to be CPB's chief executive, and into possible White House influence in the hiring of two in-house ombudsmen to critique news programs on NPR and PBS.

attempted government cencorship of news, I guess.

[FUNdamental]

With the guilty convictions of Irve Lewis “Scooter” Libby, I thought it would be a good idea to update the list of Republican and administration officials who have or had legal issues during this Bush administration. Some additions to the list are as follows:

Larry Franklin - intelligence officer, Defense - resigned, pled guilty to passing secrets to Israel.

Roger Stillwell - desk officer, Interior Department - pled guilty to failing to report Redskins tickets and free dinners from Jack Abramoff.

Frank Figueroa - senior DHS official, former head of anti-sex-crime Operation Predator - pled no contest to exposing himself to 16-year-old girl in Florida mall. Girl says he fondled himself for ten minutes. Figueroa forfeited his badge, gun, and access to databases; employment status pending internal DHS review.

Darleen Druyun - senior contracting official, U.S. Air Force - pled guilty and sentenced to nine months in prison for her role in the Boeing tanker lease scandal.

Carl Truscott - Director, Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Bureau - resigned. A report by the Justice Department's Inspector General found that Truscott wasted tens of thousands of dollars on luxuries, wasted millions on whimsical management decisions and violated ethics rules by ordering employees to help his nephew with a high school video project.

Joseph Schmitz - Inspector General, Defense - Resigned amid charges he personally intervened to protect top political appointees.

Janet Rehnquist - Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services - resigned in the face of allegations she blocked a politically dangerous probe on behalf of the Bush family.

George Deutsch - press aide, NASA - resigned amid allegations he prevented the agency's top climate scientist from speaking publicly about global warming.

Philip Cooney - chief of staff, White House Council on Environmental Quality - a former oil industry lawyer with no scientific expertise, Cooney resigned after it was revealed he had watered down reports on global warming.

Thomas Scully - Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - shortly after Scully resigned in 2003, an investigation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General found that Scully had pressured the agency's actuary to underestimate the full cost of the Medicare reform bill by approximately $100 billion until after Congress passed the bill into law. Scully was also charged with conflict of interest allegations by the U.S. attorney's office for billing CMS for expenses incurred during a job search while he still headed the agency. He settled those charges by paying $9,782.

[FUNdamental]

Kyle Sampson, Alberto Gonzalez's chief advisor, recently resigned in the controversy generated by the firing of the prosecutors, after some of them said they were fired for political reasons.

Even the National Review is scolding this administration for cronyism and corrupt motivations.

[FUNdamental]

This just in... J. Steven Griles, the former No. 2 official in the Interior Department admitted lying to the Senate about his relationship with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who gained the official's intervention at the agency for his Indian tribal clients.

Mr. Giles pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to a felony for making false statements in testimony before the Senate Indian Affairs Committee in November 2005 and in an earlier interview with panel investigators. He is the 10th person -- and the second high-level Bush administration official -- to face criminal charges in the continuing Justice Department investigation into Abramoff's lobbying activities.

[FUNdamental]

This just in... J. Steven Griles, the former No. 2 official in the Interior Department admitted lying to the Senate about his relationship with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who gained the official's intervention at the agency for his Indian tribal clients.

Mr. Giles pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to a felony for making false statements in testimony before the Senate Indian Affairs Committee in November 2005 and in an earlier interview with panel investigators. He is the 10th person -- and the second high-level Bush administration official -- to face criminal charges in the continuing Justice Department investigation into Abramoff's lobbying activities.

[FUNdamental]

Two more this week.

The Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday announced the resignation of Eric Keroack, its assistant secretary for population affairs, saying he was stepping down to attend to actions taken by state Medicaid officials in Massachusetts against his private medical practice. It did not detail the actions.

Keroack's appointment in November was controversial because he had helped lead organizations in Massachusetts that opposed birth control.

The governing board of the Smithsonian Institution announced Monday that it had accepted the resignation of its top official, Lawrence Small, after an internal audit showed the museum complex had paid for his use of lavish perks such as chauffeured cars, private jets, top-rated hotels and catered meals.

Is there is "Mucho" resignation coming soon

[whitequeen96]

Do you remember all the mean things some people here said (to the liberals on here) when this administration came into power? They were really cruel, and I almost left DOD after that. However, I take no joy in being right about what I thought back then, as it is OUR COUNTRY that is suffering! And FAR WORSE than I ever imagined!

But still, to all the meanies (who probably don't come here now anyway), ...... phffffft!