White House says a presidential aide has resigned after engaging in improprities

[kpete]

Bush aide resigns for alleged wrongdoing

WASHINGTON - The White House says an aide to President Bush has resigned because of the alleged misuse of grant money from U.S. Agency for International Development.

Presidential spokesman Scott Stanzel says the former aide, Felipe Sixto, had been a special assistant to the president for intergovernmental affairs. Stanzel said Sixto was promoted to that position on March 1 and that he came forward on March 20 to tell his superiors about the alleged wrongdoing.

Stanzel said it involved improprieties involving the use of grant money and Sixto's former employer, the Center for a Free Cuba. Stanzel says the matter has been turned over to the Justice Department.

http://www.newsobserver.com/1573/story/1016645.html

Bush aide resigns

WASHINGTON - The White House says a presidential aide has resigned after engaging in improprities using USAID grant money.

MSNBC.com will update this story as more information becomes available.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23847990/

[leftofcool]

1. Well, at least it isn't another Dem

[NMDemDist2]

2. Friday news dump?? n/t

[Lex]

7. oh yeah

I forgot about the timing . . .

[LakeSamish706]

3. Sure hope that said employee spills some beans on this. n/t

[mcctatas]

4. Say it isn't so...

corruption in the bush white house? My faith in humanity is irreprably shattered;)

[brentspeak]

5. Bush' entire White House is one monumental "impropriety" in of itself

[gateley]

6. Is s/he taking the fall for a higher-up, I wonder?

That seems to be the Reps' SOP.

[rurallib]

8. Looks like another one stealing public money

Not much time left to steal, so they have to be a little less careful.

[high density]

9. But the problem is guilt by association doesn't apply to Bushco

like it does our Democratic candidate, Barack Obama.

[Thepricebreaker]

12. Did his aide baptise his kids or wed him? How do you compare...

[high density]

16. Did Wright take a paycheck?

Is this all this guilt by association limited to religious figures now?

[Cooley Hurd]

10. Speculation: Dana Perino was taking night classes covering US/USSR relations in the early 1960's...

...with USAID loot.:D

[Sperk]

11. bush and cheney need to resign....that's all they do..."improper use of tax dollars"!

n/t

[skooooo]

13. Is this a sex scandal??

[Lex]

19. that's the only kind the press is interested in

for more than one 24 hr news cycle

so I hope it is one

[Jester Messiah]

22. Ha! That's what I thought at first, too.

Kinda weird that the GOP is now the "kinky sex" party, but who am I to argue?

[sinkingfeeling]

14. Felipe Sixto, a special assistant to the pres for intergovernmental affairs.

...Felipe Sixto, had been a special assistant to the president for intergovernmental affairs. Stanzel said Sixto was promoted to that position on March 1 and that he came forward on March 20 to tell his superiors about the alleged wrongdoing."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23847990/

[chixydix]

15. Impropriety? Is that their euphemism for embezzlement?

:eyes:

[tridim]

17. "The matter has been turned over to the Justice Department"

I always get a good chuckle when that phrase is used by BushCo, it means exactly nothing.

[L. Coyote]

18. WHAT? Republican Pigs held at Bay in Cuban Overthrow Attempt? LOL

Stanzel ... He said he did not know how much money was involved or the particulars of the allegations.

Is Bush trying to kill Castro? :rofl:

[crimsonblue]

20. Less than three weeks?

I'm not even mad, I'm impressed.

[Disturbed]

21. "Improprieties" is the new RWing word for Thievery.

Thievery & word substitution are two things the RWing is good at.