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| Obama suspends his Chief Info Officer on corruption charges |
| 2009-03-18 |
| (APP): The US President Barak Obama has suspended his Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra on corruption charges. Kundra had been in office for barely a week. He had to proceed on forced "leave" as the FBI had initiated an investigation into corruption charges against several persons, including the CIO, say media reports. The agency has raided and searched Mr Kundara's office. Before joining the White House Office of Management and Budget as Obama's info czar, he was Director of a Telecommunication-Infrastructure Company. The federal agents of the USA have already arrested an Indian-American businessman and a Washington DC government official on corruption charges and searched the offices of the capital city's chief technology officer as part of a corruption probe. Those arrested include Yusuf Acar, a contracting officer for Washington's city government, and Sushil Bansal, a former employee. The CIO and his coterie are accused of swindling the city of several million dollars through over-invoiced purchase orders for equipment and inflated billing for work by non-existent employees. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 How soon before we see Obama, like Diogenes, roaming Washington DC (and perhaps Chicago) with a lamp searching for an honest man Then no point looking in a mirror. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2009-03-18 23:00 |
| #8 Bambi doesn't want to find an honest man.... |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-03-18 18:59 |
| #7 with a lamp searching for an honest man.... His lamp would be either stolen or smashed in two blocks. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-03-18 17:16 |
| #6 How soon before we see Obama, like Diogenes, roaming Washington DC (and perhaps Chicago) with a lamp searching for an honest man Never. But we are already seeing Paul Volker wandering the halls of the White House doing exactly that. So far, he hasn't found any. |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2009-03-18 11:35 |
| #5 How soon before we see Obama, like Diogenes, roaming Washington DC (and perhaps Chicago) with a lamp searching for an honest man.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-03-18 08:50 |
| #4 Vivek Kundra reinstated as White House CIO President Barack Obama's [Images] Indian- American infotech czar Vivek Kundra [Images] was on Wednesday 'reinstated' to his job at the White House, five days after he went on leave following Federal Bureau of Investigation's raids at his previous office, in a corruption case related to employees working there. White House officials said Kundra, 34, returned to the job after it became clear that he was not the 'target of investigations,' a media report said. "Kundra has been informed that he is neither a subject nor a target of the investigation, and has been reinstated," Assistant White House Press Secretary Nick Shapiro was quoted as saying by the CNN. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-03-18 08:14 |
| #3 The CIO and his coterie are accused of swindling the city of several million dollars through over-invoiced purchase orders for equipment and inflated billing for work by non-existent employees. Just another Taste of Chicago. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-03-18 07:35 |
| #2 thats not the Mr. Kundra I know, or the Mr. Acar I know or the Mr. Bansal I know or... |
| Posted by: mhw 2009-03-18 06:32 |
| #1 But I thought a few days ago, that he wasn't a target. Maybe with all the AIG noise they hope this one will slip through unnoticed. |
| Posted by: Omoter Speaking for Boskone7794 2009-03-18 01:37 |