Did Barack Obama fire Gerald Walpin to cover up a sex scandal?

  The story of the AmeriCorp inspector that Barack Obama illegally fired, Gerald Walpin, has taken another unforseen turn in Walpin’s road to redemption.

  Gerald Walpin was fired by Barack Obama in violation of the Inspector General Reform Act of 2008– a bill that he co-sponsored as a senator– after it was learned that he had uncovered a misuse of AmeriCorps funds to the tune of $800,000.  Gerald Walpin was closing in on the director of AmeriCorps, Kevin Johnson, who just happens to be a friend and political ally of Barack Obama’s, and let us not forget AmeriCorps is one of Obama’s favorite organizations.  When the investigation tightened and as Kevin Johnson looked to be the target Barack Obama fired the man who was closing in on the criminal.

  Now it looks like some of the money that Kevin Johnson was misappropriating was being paid out as hush money to cover up a sex scandal. This is something that Gerald Walpin had uncovered and it will be included in the official House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform report.

  Michelle Rhee– who is now Kevin Johnson’s fiancée– made it her “number one priority” to take care of the sexual improprieties of  her future husband and where do we think that this money came from? Kevin Johnson’s attorney also met with one of Kevin Johnson’s victims and offered her $1000 a month to keep quiet. Where do we think that money came from?

  Barack Obama fired Gerald Walpin abruptly in the middle of this case. The only reason that he gave was that he lost faith in Walpin, in essence he called him a senile old man. That excuse is not enough to satisfy the law, which states that Barack Obama must provide the senate with specific details for the firing. He never justified the firing because there was no way to.

  There was no reason for Barack Obama to fire Gerald Walpin in the middle of such a confusing and convoluted case in less he had ulterior motives. The only reasons that Barack Obama would have fired Gerald Walpin for doing his jobs would be to one: protect his political ally and friend, and two; to protect an organization that he cares about. He wanted to slow down this investigation so he took the action that was most likely to do just that.

  Today Gerald Walpin is out of a job because he exposed $800,000 worth of corruption courtesy of the man who was supposed to bring us the most open and honest administration is history. Meanwhile the man who Gerald Walpin was trying to expose, Kevin Johnson, has been elected mayor of Sacramento.

  Soon enough the congressional report will be out and everything that Barack Obama was trying to hide will be brought to light and the world will see that Barack Obama is no different than any other politician. Not that I would have expected anything else, but the image he tried to portray was of himself being a different type of politician. He promised to change the way Washington did business but he is just business as usual.

   I missed this story when it first came out last week so a hattip is in order for Political Vindication for finding this story.