Another one replaced: Glenn Fine

[mary2029]

President Trump effectively ousted the leader of a new watchdog panel charged with overseeing how his administration spends trillions of taxpayer dollars in pandemic relief funds.

Trump effectively ousts the top watchdog for the $2 trillion in virus relief.

President Trump moved on Tuesday to oust the leader of a new panel of watchdogs charged with overseeing how his administration spends trillions of taxpayer dollars in coronavirus pandemic relief.



The official, Glenn A. Fine, has been the acting Defense Department inspector general since before Mr. Trump took office. Last week, an umbrella group of agency inspectors general across the executive branch named him the chairman of a new Pandemic Response Accountability Committee with control of an $80 million budget to police how the government carries out the $2 trillion relief bill.


But Mr. Trump has now abruptly named a different federal official — Sean O’Donnell, the Environmental Protection Agency’s inspector general — to be the acting Defense Department inspector general.



The move effectively ousted Mr. Fine from his role overseeing pandemic spending as well. Mr. Fine is a longtime former Justice Department inspector general who earned a reputation for aggression and independence in the years following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

In a statement, Dwrena K. Allen, a spokeswoman for the office of the inspector general at the Pentagon, said Mr. Trump designated Mr. O’Donnell to simultaneously serve as the acting leader of the office on Monday in addition to his duties at the E.P.A.



“Mr. Fine is no longer on the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee,” she said.


“The president is sending in some of his loyalists,” she said. “So this is really a problem.”



Asked if somebody should be watching over the aid package, she said, “Yes, and the president thinks he should be the one, and that’s exactly upside down.”


Speaker Nancy Pelosi responded to the news during an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper.

www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/world/coronavirus-updates-news-live.html

[mary2029]

The Washington Post article has more info:  www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-removes-inspector-general-who-was-to-oversee-2-trillion-stimulus-spending/2020/04/07/2f0c6cb8-78ea-11ea-9bee-c5bf9d2e3288_story.html

[dondub]

Grifting on the most beautiful, fantastic, best, genius level can now commence.

[Tennesseer]

I wonder who trump is going to share the $2 trillion with.  

[thyme4change]

Apr 7, 2020 15:09:34 GMT -5 dondub said:

Grifting on the most beautiful, fantastic, best, genius level can now commence.

Can't he just give that job to Jared?

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He knows all the best people. As soon as he appoints a new best person, he'll get ticked off and shoot the messenger. Again.

Jared. Of course! He wouldn't dream of firing Jared.

All this winning!

[billisonboard]

Apr 7, 2020 16:24:11 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

Apr 7, 2020 15:09:34 GMT -5 dondub said:

Grifting on the most beautiful, fantastic, best, genius level can now commence.

Can't he just give that job to Jared?

No.

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A panel of inspectors general had named Glenn Fine — the acting Pentagon watchdog — to lead the group charged with monitoring the coronavirus relief effort.

...effectively removed Fine from his role overseeing the coronavirus relief effort, since the new law permits only current inspectors general to fill the position.link

[Deleted]

Meh. That's fine. trump can just name Jared an inspector general of something.

[NastyWoman]

Apr 7, 2020 16:24:11 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

Apr 7, 2020 15:09:34 GMT -5 dondub said:

Grifting on the most beautiful, fantastic, best, genius level can now commence.

Can't he just give that job to Jared?

Noooo. He isn't going to share, are you kidding? He needs all that money for his next bankruptcy (the country's as he walks away with his ill gotten gains). But fear not Jared won't go empty handed -> trump just requested another $250B so there should be plenty to go around for Jared in order to keep Ivanka in the style she is used to

[Tennesseer]

And still another one replaced. Morale in the State Department must be over the top.

State Department watchdog critical of Trump moves fired

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration fired the State Department's watchdog late Friday, ousting a career investigator who had uncovered alleged political bias at the agency. 

The decision — made quietly and without explanation — was the latest in a series of purges the White House has undertaken in recent months to remove government overseers who are charged with reporting on government malfeasance and corruption.

In Friday's move, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo fired the agency's inspector general, Steve Linick, who was appointed in 2013 during the Obama administration after serving other senior roles in the U.S. government. 

The State Department announced that Stephen J. Akard, a one-time aide to then-Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, would replace Linick as the agency's inspector general. 

Akard has served in other State Department roles, including as a political officer at the U.S. embassy in Brussels. He worked as an economic adviser for Pence, when the now-vice president was Indiana's chief executive.

A State Department official declined to say why Linick was fired, and the White House did not explain the move in a letter informing lawmakers.

"It is vital that I have the fullest confidence in the appointees serving as Inspectors General. That is no longer the case with regard to this Inspector General," President Donald Trump wrote in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. 

A top House Democrat suggested Linick's ouster was done to protect Pompeo from an internal State Department investigation. 



Complete article here: State Department watchdog critical of Trump moves fired

[teen persuasion]

Fire the guy who finds " government malfeasance and corruption".  Fits with Trump's idea that testing for Covid-19 creates more cases.  If you don't test, you don't have cases.  If you don't report corruption, it doesn't exist.  Problem solved!