WaPo: Two Top Staffers In WH Personnel Office Have Several Past Arrests

[DonViejo]

By Caitlin MacNeal | March 30, 2018 12:34 pm

The office in the White House tasked with vetting and selecting candidates for key administration posts has struggled to recruit top candidates at a quick pace due to a small team and top staff with little experience, according to a new report from the Washington Post.

Two young staffers with top positions at the Presidential Personnel Office (PPO) have records of previous arrests for drunk driving and assault, the Post reported Friday.

Caroline Wiles, the daughter of a Florida lobbyist, started work on the Trump campaign when she was 30 years old, according to the Washington Post. She originally joined the Trump administration as a deputy assistant to the president but had to leave that job when she failed the background check. She was then moved to the PPO as a special assistant to the president, per the Washington Post. Wiles never completed her college degree and had her license suspended for drunk driving and was arrested over a bad check, according to the Washington Post.

Max Miller, a 29-year-old former Trump campaign staffer, is also a special assistant to the president at PPO. He has previously been charged with assault, resisting arrest, and disorderly conduct, according to the Washington Post.

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[OldHippieChick]

1. "Only the best

people"

[sdfernando]

2. Only the BEST for pres Spanky! /nt

[SL1]

3. When I am interviewing for new hires

I believe I am allowed to ask if a person has been convicted, but I am not allowed to ask if they have been charged

And the reason for that probably is crooked police officers step over the line consistently every day, and their cases get tossed in the garbage by the courts

This article does not mention if any of the charges turned into convictions, Which seems like an extremely relevant point

[Chiyo-chichi]

4. Well, here's more info in Caroline Wiles' multiple cases and their outcomes

from Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/03/the-white-house-personnel-office-is-just-a-big-frat-party/

One of the newcomers was a former Trump campaign worker named Caroline Wiles. Wiles, then 30, is the daughter of Susan Wiles, a prominent lobbyist and political operative in Florida….The younger Wiles has an unusual background for a senior White House official. On a résumé she submitted to the state of Florida she said she had completed course work at Flagler College in Florida. On her LinkedIn page, she says she simply lists Flagler under education. A Flagler spokesman said she never finished her degree. “She did not continue her enrollment or graduate from here,” said spokesman Brian Thompson.

Wiles has had a string of political jobs, including work at her mother’s lobbying firm and as a campaign aide for candidates her mother advised, including Florida Gov. Rick Scott and Donald Trump. She also worked for an education organization that helped provide health care to needy students. Over the years, she has had multiple encounters with police. In 2005, she had her driver’s license suspended for driving while intoxicated, police records show. In 2007, she was arrested for driving while intoxicated and arrested for passing a “worthless check.” She was found guilty of a misdemeanor for driving under the influence. The charge related to the bad check was dropped in a plea agreement.

[Chiyo-chichi]

9. BTW, the job she was in typically pays $115,000/year.

The Washington Post has a good piece on the Presidential Personnel Office.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/behind-the-chaos-office-that-vets-trump-appointees-plagued-by-inexperience/2018/03/30/cde31a1a-28a3-11e8-ab19-06a445a08c94_story.html?utm_term=.07ae5f92942e

Here's more on Max Miller:

Miller has been charged by police in his home state of Ohio with multiple offenses. In 2007, he was charged with assault, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after punching another male in the back of the head and running away from police, police records show. He pleaded no contest to two misdemeanor charges, and the case was later dismissed as part of a program for first offenders, court records show.

In 2009, he was charged with underage drinking, a case that also was later dismissed under a first offenders’ program. The following year, he pleaded guilty to a disorderly conduct charge related to another altercation in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. That episode was related to a fight involving Miller shortly after leaving a hookah bar at about 2 a.m. one morning. During the fight, Miller punched through a glass door, cut his wrist and left a trail of blood as he wandered off, a police report said.

[SL1]

10. Jesus H

The guy keeps getting arrested, and keeps getting dismissed

That’s why you should never talk about somebody’s charges, only conventions

[we can do it]

16. How can you be a first offender more than once?

[SL1]

19. I know how that happens

People are also not supposed to have their cases “withheld“ repeatedly

But this is a maneuver the courts use when the police department bring cases that don’t have enough evidence, or are rat fucked in someway

If your case gets dismissed, it means somebody fucked up

If your case gets withheld, it means somebody fucked up

If your case gets dismissed under first offender rules, it means somebody fucked up

Courts have many options to get out of crooked cases the police force upon them

[we can do it]

20. Or white privileged jerks get their cases thrown out.

[jaysunb]

5. LOL ! Try again

A suspended license would indicate a conviction...at least in the old world that used to be America.

[SL1]

8. Try again ??

Ok

The article also says she was arrested for writing bad checks, those charges were dropped, they failed to mention that

I was just trying to make that point, they seem to have smeared her with charges in the article , that eventually evaporated into thin air

Just saying

[Chiyo-chichi]

11. Well, the poor thing should sue the Washington Post.

Good luck to her and all her fellow unqualified/children of political cronies who are playing "find and chug the bottle of Smirnoff Ice" in the Presidential Personnel Office while we pay their six-figure salaries.

Just sayin'.

[SL1]

12. Im not debating either way

And I was absolutely correct in pointing out what the article did

They smeared some people with a bunch of charges that evaporator into thin air

These are probably some real boot licking Nazis, nevertheless ..... the truth

[Chiyo-chichi]

13. The truth

is that they are white and from families with connections that can land them plum jobs for which they are grossly unqualified.

Thus, they can also commit assault, engage in drunken and disorderly conduct, and resist arrest multiple times and still qualify for programs akin to pre-trial diversion.

The Washington Post is absolutely correct to report these things. They did them. These are facts. It's not a case of it being the cops' word against theirs. Wiles pled "no contest" and Miller pled "guilty." Wiles had a plea agreement on the bad check charge.

As for the charges "evaporating into thin air," ...that's how these programs work. They likely did some community service and didn't have to do jail time.

It is certainly possible that they have changed in the ensuing years, that these were merely youthful indiscretions. Still, there are certainly more qualified people out there for these jobs. But this is a reflection of the cronyism and corruption that starts at the top.

[SL1]

14. Well...

“They did them. These are facts.”

See, I am not so sure about that , For instance, what evidence do we have that she actually wrote a bad check?

I am certainly not sticking up for this vile person, just pointing out the truth

I have been arrested twice, and had the case thrown out twice, because the police brought charges without evidence , This type of thing happens every day

[Chiyo-chichi]

15. Fair enough.

I don't know the evidence that she passed a bad check. There was a plea bargain, but it is true that innocent people sometimes take a deal.

[gademocrat7]

6. They are qualified in this cabal.

Grifters, domestic abusers, pathological liars are all welcome.

[EffieBlack]

7. Can you imagine if all of these criminals were found to be working in the Obama White House?

And they were black?

[Achilleaze]

17. republican "family values" are devoid of honor

The KGOP needs to piss on their degenerate republican values and instead embrace American values.

[procon]

18. If this is the caliber permitted for low level staffers,

we should not be surprised when Trump foists the likes of John Bolton on us. Trump is surrounding himself with the best sycophants, the best yes-men, and the best psalm singing acolytes that money can buy.