The Justice Department Still Hasn't Told The Federal Accountability Office That Jeff Sessions Quit

[Mrs. Overall]

Source: BuzzFeed

Federal law requires the vacancy and any acting appointment to be reported "immediately" to the Government Accountability Office. A month after the shakeup at the Department of Justice, the GAO hasn't been informed.

President Donald Trump may have a pick for who he plans to nominate to be attorney general, but his Justice Department has yet to file the required paperwork that Jeff Sessions has left the office. Under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, the head of the Justice Department was to report the vacancy in the office of attorney general and any appointment of an acting attorney general to the head of the Government Accountability Office "immediately."

It's been a month since Trump forced then-Attorney General Sessions to resign and then tweeted that Matthew Whitaker, Sessions' chief of staff, would be the acting attorney general.

There has been no notification. The comptroller general of the United States, the head of the accountability office, hasn't received any reporting of either the vacancy or the acting appointment, a GAO spokesperson for the office told BuzzFeed News on Friday morning.

Read more: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisgeidner/justice-department-sessions-whitaker-gao

[UpInArms]

1. You mean there are rules and protocols?

😂😂😂😂

[turbinetree]

2. So are we paying a salary for someone that was fired (or should I say resigned, or forced out)

if so, I want our money back......................since this crew doesn't follow the rule of law...............

[safeinOhio]

5. Not to worry....

Mexico is going to pay for him. Cost us nothing.
Let’s chant it.

[csziggy]

11. AND we have been paying the salary for the "Acting" AG, crooked Whitaker

[NCjack]

3. What's wrong with Federal Accountability Office? Jeff's

quitting/firing was reported in the Washington Post -- can't those folks read?

[GeorgeGist]

4. Fake AG ...

today's moment in Idiocracy.

[thbobby]

7. When I watched Idiocracy I thought is was perfectly named

The trump Klan make the idiots in the movie seem like geniuses.

[Cracklin Charlie]

6. Is Beauregard still getting paid?

Did the White House ever “staff up”? The level of incompetence is astounding.

[bluedigger]

8. Presumes facts not in evidence: knowledge of the existence of the GAO by the Trump regime.

[NBachers]

9. This is why I believe we need to elect a President with experience in, and knowledge of, how the

government works. The structure of our government has been shattered. It will need to be re-assembled. It will take an old pro to remember how to do it.

[docgee]

10. So legally Rosenstein is still head of the Meuller investigation?

[Wellstone ruled]

12. Sessions will get his bi-weekly

paycheck most likely till 28 December.