Saturday, March 11, 2006
Another Bush Adminstration Flack With Ethical Problems?
Say it ain't so!
Now, to be fair, this time the culprit is actually a former Bush policy advisor, but who's counting at this point?
A former domestic policy adviser to President Bush has been charged with theft for allegedly receiving phony refunds at department stores.Luckily, Senate Democrats blocked Allen's nomination to the Court of Appeals, otherwise this paragon of moral virtue would have had a lifetime post on the federal bench.
Claude Alexander Allen, 45, was arrested Thursday by Montgomery County police for allegedly claiming refunds for more than $5,000 worth of merchandise he did not buy, according to county and federal authorities.
Allen was the No. 2 official in the Health and Human Services Department when Bush nominated him in April 2003 to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va. Bush nominated Allen to the court again a year later, but he never received a Senate vote.
Party on...
UPDATE: DrFrankLives rightly points out that Claude Allen had his little problem while still employed by the Bush Administration.
There's a correction I don't mind making!
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