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| Top Weather Service official creates consulting job -- then takes it himself with $43,200 raise |
| 2015-06-07 |
| [WASHINGTONPOST] A senior National Weather Service official helped write the job description and set the salary for his own post-retirement consulting post-- then came back to the office doing the same job with a $43,200 raise, the agency's watchdog found. The deputy chief financial officer also demanded that he be paid a $50,000 housing allowance near Weather Service headquarters in downtown Silver Spring in violation of government rules for contractors, one of numerous improprieties in a revolving-door deal sealed with full knowledge of senior agency leaders, according to an investigation by the Commerce Department Inspector General's office. With his consulting job and housing allowance in place, P. Donald Jiron retired from the Weather Service in early May 2010, then returned to work as a consultant the next day, while collecting his government pension, Sherlocks said. By the time he was fired 21 months later, the government had paid him another $471,875.34. The investigation made public this week does not name Jiron, who worked as a GS-15 before his retirement and now lives in Williamsburg, Va. But government officials familiar with the case identified him. His lawyer, Matthew Kaiser, said in a statement, "Mr. Jiron has not done anything wrong" because he acted "at the direction of and with the approval of his supervisor at all times." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Another reason for the Reynolds Revolving Government Employment Tax(c, Glenn Reynolds). Leave government and keep your fingers in the cookie jar, 50% of the new salary above the old, becomes pure tax revenue. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-06-07 08:19 |