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Ärende: Ethical administration
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Indicted / Convicted/ Pled Guilty

* Scooter Libby - Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff - resigned
after being indicted for Obstruction of Justice, Perjury, and Making
False Statements in connection with the investigation stemming from the
leak of a CIA operative identity.

* Lester Crawford - Commissioner, FDA - resigned after only two months
on the job. Pled guilty to conflict of interest and making false
statements.

* Brian Doyle - Deputy Press Secretary, DHS - Resigned in wake of child
sex scandal. Pled no contest to 32 criminal counts.

* Claude Allen - Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy-
resigned, pled guilty to shoplifting from Target stores.

* David Safavian - former head of the Office of Federal Procurement
Policy at the Office of Management and Budget - convicted of lying to
ethics officials and Senate investigators about his ties to lobbyist
Jack Abramoff.

* Larry Franklin - intelligence officer, Defense - resigned, pled guilty
to passing secrets to Israel.

* Roger Stillwell - desk officer, Interior Department - pled guilty to
failing to report Redskins tickets and free dinners from Jack Abramoff.

* Frank Figueroa - senior DHS official, former head of anti-sex-crime
Operation Predator - pled no contest to exposing himself to 16-year-old
girl in Florida mall. Girl says he fondled himself for ten minutes.
Figueroa forfeited his badge, gun, and access to databases; employment
status pending internal DHS review.

* Darleen Druyun - senior contracting official, U.S. Air Force - pled
guilty and sentenced to nine months in prison for her role in the
Boeing tanker lease scandal.

* John Korsmo - chairman, Federal Housing Finance Board - pled guilty
last year to lying to the Senate and an inspector general. He swore he
had no idea how a list of presidents for FHFB-regulated banks were
invited to a fundraiser for his friend's congressional campaign. On the
invites, Korsmo was listed as the "Special Guest." Got 18 months of
probation.

Resigned Due to Investigation

* Carl Truscott - Director, Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
Bureau - resigned. A report by the Justice Department's Inspector
General found that Truscott wasted tens of thousands of dollars on
luxuries, wasted millions on whimsical management decisions and
violated ethics rules by ordering employees to help his nephew with a
high school video project.

* Joseph Schmitz - Inspector General, Defense - Resigned amid charges he
personally intervened to protect top political appointees.

* Steven Griles - Deputy Secretary at the Interior Department -
resigned, currently under investigation by the Justice Department for
his ties to Jack Abramoff.

* Susan Ralston - assistant, White House - resigned amidst revelations
that she had accepted thousands of dollars in gifts from Abramoff
without compensating him, counter to White House ethics rules.

* Dusty Foggo - Executive Director, CIA - stepped down following
accusations of corruption in connection to the Duke Cunningham scandal.
Under investigation.

* Janet Rehnquist - Inspector General, Department of Health and Human
Services - resigned in the face of allegations she blocked a
politically dangerous probe on behalf of the Bush family.

* Ken Tomlinson, Board Chairman, Corporation for Public Broadcasting;
member, Broadcasting Board of Governors - resigned at the release of an
inspector general report concluding he had broken laws in spending CPB
money to hire politically connected consultants to search for "bias"
without consulting the board. At BBG, a separate investigation found he
was running a "horse racing operation" out of his office, and
continuing to hire politically-wired individuals to do "consulting"
work for him. He's still there.

* George Deutsch - press aide, NASA - resigned amid allegations he
prevented the agency's top climate scientist from speaking publicly
about global warming.

* Richard Perle - Chairman, Defense Policy Board - resigned from
Pentagon advisory panel amid conflict-of-interest charges.

* James Roche - secretary, U.S. Air Force - resigned in the wake of the
Boeing tanker lease scandal, after it was revealed he had rather
crudely pushed for Boeing to win a $23 billion contract.

* Marvin Sambur - top contracting executive, U.S. Air Force - Druyun's
boss, Sambur resigned in the wake of the scandal. Investigations
cleared him of wrongdoing.

* Philip Cooney - chief of staff, White House Council on Environmental
Quality - a former oil industry lawyer with no scientific expertise,
Cooney resigned after it was revealed he had watered down reports on
global warming.

* Thomas Scully - Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services - shortly after Scully resigned in 2003, an investigation by
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the
Inspector General found that Scully had pressured the agency's actuary
to underestimate the full cost of the Medicare reform bill by
approximately $100 billion until after Congress passed the bill into
law. Scully was also charged wtih conflict of interest allegations by
the U.S. attorney's office for billing CMS for expenses incurred during
a job search while he still headed the agency. He settled those charges
by paying $9,782.

Nomination Failed Due to Scandal

* Bernard Kerik - nominated, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security
- withdrew his nomination amidst a host of corruption allegations.
Eventually pled guilty to a misdemeanor relating to having accepted
improper gifts totaling tens of thousands of dollars while he was a New
York City official in the late 1990's.

* Timothy Flanigan - nominated, Deputy Attorney General - withdrew his
nomination amidst revelations that he'd worked closely with lobbyist
Jack Abramoff when he was General Counsel for Corporate and
International Law at Tyco, which was a client of Abramoff's.

* Linda Chavez - nominated, Secretary of Labor - withdrew her nomination
amidst revelations that an illegal immigrant lived in her home and
worked for her.


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