CRIMINALS AND SCOUNDRELS: The 25 Most Corrupt Bush Administration Officials

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http://www.citizensforethics.org/press/newsrelease.php?view=198

CREW RELEASES LATEST CORRUPTION REPORT - CRIMINALS AND SCOUNDRELS: The 25 Most Corrupt Bush Administration Officials
Washington, D.C. -- Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) released a new report on the most corrupt officials in the Bush administration entitled "Criminals and Scoundrels: The 25 Most Corrupt Bush Administration Officials." For the first time, the report chronicles the criminal activities and misconduct of high level officials in the current administration. Using public and court records, CREW developed a comprehensive list of government officials who have abused the public trust.

CREW found and documented more than more than 160 cases of misconduct over the last six years and then narrowed the list based on type of offense, the official's level of responsibility and the impact on the public trust. The majority of the officials in the report have been convicted of crimes, are currently under criminal investigation, or are being investigated by the inspector generals of their respective agencies. CREW's website, www.citizensforethics.org, provides summaries of each case as well as accompanying exhibits.

"High level government officials, acting without oversight, have plenty of opportunity to commit crimes," said Melanie Sloan, executive director of CREW, "It is clear from CREW's report, 'Criminals and Scoundrels,' that a system that rewards political cronyism over competence may actually increase government corruption," Sloan said today.

Some of the egregious behavior detailed in the "Criminals and Scoundrels" report includes: personal trips on the taxpayer dime, directing contracts to benefit family and friends, using a computer to seduce a child, lying to the U.S. Senate, unauthorized possession of classified materials and taking a bribe from a defense contractors to pay a mortgage.


Claude Allen
White House

Margaret Burnette
Food and Drug Administration

Lurita Doan
General Services Administration

Darleen Druyun
U.S. Air Force

Kyle "Dusty" Foggo
Central Intelligence Agency

Andrea Grimsley
U.S. Department of Homeland Security

John Korsmo
Federal Housing Finance Board

Jose Miranda
Broadcasting Board of Governors

Janet Rehnquist
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Robert Schofield
U.S. Department of Homeland Security

David Smith
Department of Interior

Robert Stein
Coalition Provisional Authority

Kenneth Tomlinson
Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Eric Andell
U.S. Department of Education

Lester Crawford
Food and Drug Administration

Brian Doyle
U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Frank Figueroa
U.S. Department of Homeland Security

J. Steven Griles
U.S. Department of the Interior

Donald Keyser
U.S. Department of State

Kevin Marlowe
U.S. Department of Defense

William Myers
U.S. Department of Interior

David Safavian
White House and General Services Administration

Thomas Scully
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Jeffrey Stayton
U.S. Department of the Army

Roger Stillwell
U.S. Department of the Interior

[illinoisprogressive]

1. Only 25? lol

[Lithos]

2. It's a top 25 kind of thing

And only to the political appointees.

L-

[Initech]

3. I'd be curious to know what these people did to make them so corrupt.

We all know the follies of assholes like Donald Rumsfeld and Alberto Gonzales, but exactly who does Bush have in his cabinet? I really want to know.

[orleans]

4. i want to add to that list

assistant attorney general sue ellen wooldridge (who resigned last month)

"Nine months before agreeing to let ConocoPhillips delay a half-billion-dollar pollution cleanup, the government's top environmental prosecutor bought a $1 million vacation home with the company's top lobbyist.

"Also in on the Kiawah Island, S.C., house deal was former Deputy Interior Secretary J. Steven Griles, the highest-ranking Bush administration official targeted for criminal prosecution in the Jack Abramoff corruption probe.

"Just before resigning last month, Assistant Attorney General Sue Ellen Wooldridge signed two proposed consent decrees with ConocoPhillips: one giving the company as much as two to three more years to install $525 million in pollution controls at nine refineries and the other dealing with a Superfund toxic waste cleanup.

"Last April, Wooldridge, ConocoPhillips Vice President Donald R. Duncan and Griles had gone together on a $980,000 home in a gated community at Kiawah Island. Records from the Charleston County Auditor's office obtained by The Associated Press list Duncan as a 50 percent owner of the home and Wooldridge and Griles as 25 percent owners"

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Prosecutor-Lobbyist.html

yes boys and girls: the bush administration really is in bed with the oil companies!!!