FBI probe
Posted on | June 19, 2009 | 5 Comments
Thank you for reporting on this Ms. Gutierrez, Mr. Walsh, and Mr. Ryan!!!! Keep up the great job! This story can be found at https://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/1952940.html
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FBI probes obstruction of justice claim by former St. HOPE official
By Melody Gutierrez, Denny Walsh and Ryan Lillis
mgutierrez@sacbee.com
Published: Wednesday, Jun. 17, 2009 – 12:00 am | Page 1A
The FBI‘s Sacramento division is investigating a former St. HOPE executive’s allegations of obstruction of justice, Acting U.S. Attorney Lawrence G. Brown confirmed Tuesday.
The news fuels the controversy that has followed Mayor Kevin Johnson since 2008, when his brainchild St. HOPE Academy first was investigated for misuse of public funds.
That investigation appeared to end in April when Brown’s office announced a settlement with Johnson, St. HOPE and former executive director Dana Gonzalez.
The settlement, hotly contested by the office of the inspector general for the federal Corporation for National and Community Service, required the repayment of more than $400,000 in misused grants for AmeriCorps volunteers.
However, Rick Maya, who officially left his position as executive director with St. HOPE last week, alleged in an April resignation letter that a member of the charter schools‘ board deleted Johnson‘s e-mails during the federal investigation. Those claims, uncovered by a public records request by The Bee, caught the interest of Brown’s office, who asked the FBI’s Sacramento division to look into it.
“The FBI has, in fact, opened an investigation of the circumstances surrounding the alleged destruction of e-mails, and is working with criminal prosecutors in this office,” Brown said in a statement to The Bee. “Beyond confirming the existence of an investigation, we are not at liberty to discuss the details of the investigation.”
Johnson‘s office and an attorney who represented St. HOPE Academy during the AmeriCorps investigation both said they would cooperate fully with what they characterized as a “preliminary inquiry” by the FBI.
“We are … confident the inquiry will quickly confirm that nothing inappropriate occurred,” said attorney Malcolm Segal.
Maya alleged in his resignation letter that on Aug. 22, while the academy was under federal subpoena in the AmeriCorps investigation, he notified the charter schools‘ board that board member Sam Oki had accessed St. HOPE’s e-mail system and deleted some of Johnson‘s e-mails. Maya wrote that Oki acted at the request of an unnamed St. HOPE Academy board member.
Maya discovered the breach, he wrote, when his own e-mails also were deleted.
“We had to pay thousands of dollars to recover the information deleted from our e-mail system as a result of this highly inappropriate and potentially unlawful incursion into our e-mail system,” Maya’s letter said. “We are still unsure whether all of the deleted information has been recovered.”
Maya has not returned repeated phone calls from The Bee.
Oki, the CFO of a local research and technology company, reiterated Tuesday that the allegations are untrue. Oki said he could not comment further.
“My understanding is that (the matter) is under investigation and it’s inappropriate for me to make any comments,” Oki said.
Johnson‘s mayoral spokesman, Steve Maviglio, previously said the incident involved an information technology person from St. HOPE working to separate Johnson‘s mayoral campaign and St. HOPE e-mails. Maviglio said e-mails deleted from one account were fully backed up by another.
News of the FBI investigation comes on the heels of the controversial firing of Gerald Walpin, who as inspector general for the Corporation for National and Community Service investigated the misuse of federal aid by Johnson and his nonprofit St. HOPE.
In a letter to Congress last Thursday, President Barack Obama said he had lost confidence in Walpin.
The timing created speculation about whether Johnson asked the Obama administration to fire the outspoken federal inspector general.
Speaking at his weekly news conference Tuesday morning, Johnson said the decision to remove Walpin was “100 percent within the purview of the (Obama) administration.”
“Obviously, I was not consulted in that decision,” Johnson said. The settlement “was resolved in full public disclosure, and I really don’t have much more of a comment.”
Other politicians have had plenty to say, namely Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill and House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform ranking member Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista.
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June 19th, 2009 @ 12:48 pm
Fantastic Interview by Mario Apuzzo.
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Please Spread Far and Wide.
June 19th, 2009 @ 7:40 pm
Oh, good the fbi is investigating KJ & HOPE big deal. How is that big fbi investigation of acorn going? Or Tony Resko? Vince Foster, Ron Brown or Jimmy Hoffa going???????????????? fbi is worthless
June 19th, 2009 @ 10:40 pm
I called and gave my congressman’s aide the riot act about the Walpin matter. I told him that this is just the beginning, that this FBI investigation is going to lead to Obama’s eligibility. I believe it will because one small thing will lead to another, just as it did in Watergate. And it looks as if Congress is catching on to the Obama deception…slowly, they’re waking up from their stupor and seeing that Obama is a foreign-born domestic enemy of the first degree…and if they want to save themselves, they better hurry up and do something.
Walpin is a man of great honor and a servant to his country. Obambi’s thugs thought they could intimidate this fine gentleman and grandfather who worked his way through law school, unlike the Usurper, who got foreign grants from Arabs and Muslims to go through his leftist training camps and then tried to cover it up.
The sense I got from the aide is that they are well aware of the Apuzzo case, the unrest within the American populace, and the eligibility problem as a whole. I told him that we tried to tell them that Obama wasn’t qualified, that he was born in Africa and has no real ties to America, and now it’s “not going to be pretty.” But then I said, confidently, “he will be removed, and I hope the congressman will join me in pursuit of the truth.”
I have already hand-delivered a copy of an American Grand Jury presentment to the good congressman, so he knows. And I know that he knows.
Mr. Walpin standing up to the Usurper is the best thing that’s happened yet. Obama broke the law by ordering one of his thug attorneys to dismiss Walpin. He got a surprise: he found an American man in pubilc service who has a backbone. And he’s not backing down to some cesspool Chicago thug whose tactics are to destroy everyone else’ reputation to keep himself in the game. Those days are over…now he’s hit the big time and is exposed for the fraud and traitor that he is.
Barry will not be usurping much longer.
June 20th, 2009 @ 6:40 am
Kenya Boy has “fired” 3 other IGs as well as Mr. Walpin. Grassley is having a fit as he should. The jerks in Congress need to hurry the hell up, stop wringing their hands, take the hint and stand up for once in their lives. Mr. Walpin is a hero.
June 20th, 2009 @ 10:39 am
Sorry everybody….I have to make a correction. Barry “fired” 3 IGs total, not 4 as implied. It was Judith Gwynne at ITC and Neil Barofsky. You can see the article at the blog “Gates of Vienna”. I think WND also covers it. Grassley is worried there is a pattern…..DUH!!!!