March 25th 2009
Scandal Nails Another Obama Nominee
Jon Cannon, the prez’s nominee for deputy EPA administrator, is cannon fodder this afternoon, the latest scandal-plagued nominee to have to resign in shame even before confirmation. Here’s Cannon’s statement:
“Today I am voluntarily removing my name from consideration to be Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. It has come to my attention that America’s Clean Water Foundation, where I once served on the board of directors, has become the subject of scrutiny. While my service on the board of that now-dissolved organization is not the subject of the scrutiny, I believe the energy and environmental challenges facing our nation are too great to delay confirmation for this position, and I do not wish to present any distraction to the agency.”
Michelle Malkin dug into the Cannon/Clean Water Foundation deal and found sewer water, not clean water – the mishandling of $26 million in federal funds. The Foundation was either Geithner-like in its ineptness or just plain crooked, because EPA said it could not provide support for any of its general journal entries; included duplicate transactions in its accounting system; recorded labor charged to EPA grants incorrectly; could not support the recorded indirect costs; claimed unallowable pre-award costs (a really stupid move – anyone who’s bid on a government contract knows that’s verbotin!), and three other assorted crooked acts.
So to recap, Obama nominated as Dep. Dir. of EPA a guy from a group that scammed EPA. That would be about as dumb as appointing a Treasury Sec. who scammed the IRS. Hey, wait a minute …
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March 25th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
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