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| Official Who Met With Michelle Obama at WH Indicted for Stealing School Lunch Funds |
| 2017-08-09 |
| [FREEBEACON] A Los Angeles food services director who was invited to the White House by former First Lady Michelle Obama to share his tips for getting kids to eat healthy has been indicted for stealing $65,000 in public funds. David Binkle, a chef who served as the director of food services for Los Angeles Unified School District until he was fired in 2015, was charged last week with multiple counts of embezzlement, misappropriation of public funds, conflict of interest, forgery, and perjury, the L.A. Times reported. In 2014, Binkle traveled to the White House for a nutrition roundtable with Mrs. Obama. Binkle bragged that he had replaced chicken nuggets with edamame in L.A. schools. He posted as a guest blogger on Mrs. Obama's Let's Move website, and thanked the former first lady for pushing uniform standards in school cafeterias that cut sodium and mandated whole grains. A year later an inspector general investigation accused Binkle of misappropriating school funds, and he was removed from his job. Binkle now faces charges of siphoning $65,000 off school lunch program funding into his private culinary consulting firm and a personal bank account, the L.A. Times reported. As food services director he earned a $152,000 salary. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 Someone should check his political donations, just to confirm the obvious. |
| Posted by: Raj 2017-08-09 19:03 |
| #8 "he had replaced chicken nuggets with edamame in L.A. schools" But did any of the kids eat them? Or did they starve? |
| Posted by: Barbara 2017-08-09 18:44 |
| #7 ...but, but, he did it to buy real food! (that humans eat, not what their food eats). |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-08-09 10:20 |
| #6 |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-08-09 09:55 |
| #5 More along the lines of Chef Binkle outliving his usefulness and not sharing the wealth. Posted by Pappy He'll likely be found lifeless on his patio, having choked on a helping of sticky date pudding. These things happen you know. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-08-09 08:44 |
| #4 More along the lines of Chef Binkle outliving his usefulness and not sharing the wealth. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-08-09 08:37 |
| #3 Just working on his DNC Street Cred. Nothing to see here... move along... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2017-08-09 07:54 |
| #2 Well there is precedent. Upon leaving the White House in 2001, the Clintons took more than $75,000 worth of china, cutlery, and furniture as they were looking to furnish new homes in upstate New York and Washington: The examination of gifts to the Clintons also found that 17 separate gifts of china, cutlery and furniture worth more than $75,000 arrived in December 2000 alone, at a time when the Clintons were looking to furnish two newly purchased homes, one each in Washington and Chappaqua, N.Y. America Rising |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-08-09 07:00 |
| #1 It's like a contagion. Just keeps spreading from a point of origin. |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2017-08-09 03:14 |