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| McCabe at the precipice: 'Removal' from FBI may be the least of his troubles |
| 2018-01-30 |
| [American Thinker] Instead of planning how to spend his federal pension, now-former Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe must be figuring out how to pay the lawyers he is going to need. Until his boss Christopher Wray, President Trump’s appointee to head the FBI, read the four-page FISA memo on Sunday (an extraordinary act in itself), he enjoyed protected job status. According to reports, Wray previously had threatened to resign if McCabe was forced out. Officially, McCabe "stepped down," but administration officials informed the media that he was "removed," which suggests he was forced to resign. Using accumulated vacation time, he will be able to fill out a full twenty years of servcue and qualify for a federal pension. According to some reports, his accumulated vacation time was sufficient to allow him to have left office late last year, but he preferred to stay on for reasons we can only speculate on, but which might include running interference int he face of criticism. Something changed Wray’s mind. We don’t know exactly what that was. The timing suggests that the memo itself contained damaging information, but according to a report in the New York Times, it was a preview of the forthcoming Inspector General’s report that led Wray to suggest a transfer of McCabe, and McCabe himself decided to leave rather than accept a demotion: |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 If you used your |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-01-30 18:04 |
| #8 In the Army, a felony conviction can result in forfeiture of retirement benefits. I don't know what the rules are for Civil Service. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-01-30 18:01 |
| #7 yep- service years credit (partials too) x % x highest 1 (or 3, depending on plan) years = payout. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-01-30 17:54 |
| #6 Thank you, Clem. My learning for today. :-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-01-30 17:30 |
| #5 Not sure about these federal employees, but for retirement purposes, they'll get an average of their highest three annual salaries. |
| Posted by: Clem 2018-01-30 15:16 |
| #4 One swallow doesn't make spring, but I'm hopeful - the Don have pleasantly surprised me before. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-01-30 13:27 |
| #3 Officially, McCabe "stepped down," but administration officials informed the media that he was "removed," which suggests he was forced to resign. Holmes - how do you do it? |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-01-30 11:14 |
| #2 The offer of a demotion for someone at that level is a deliberate insult, intended to drive someone to resign rather than be let go. There is also the question of pension: I don’t know if federal pensions are based on the last paycheck, and whether someone who is demoted necessarily has his pay reduced to the match his new assignment rather than his old rating. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-01-30 10:39 |
| #1 re: the last paragraph. That is the way the NYT would like to spin it. |
| Posted by: V. Theart2807 2018-01-30 09:37 |