How can the government be $3 trillion in debit?

December 01, 2017 - 06:42 PM EST
Benghazi panel used $150K in taxpayer money to settle wrongful termination lawsuit
BY MAX GREENWOOD for TheHill.com
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), the former chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, used $150,000 of taxpayer money to settle a wrongful dismissal suit from a former staffer, according to a report Friday.
The Washington Post reported that the former aide claimed he was fired, in part, because he refused to focus his investigative work for the committee on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The settlement appeared on a list of settlements released by the Office of Compliance (OOC) on Friday. The list disclosed that the OOC oversaw the $150,000 settlement to a claim of veteran status discrimination and retaliation.
The former aide, Bradley Podliska, alleged that he was fired because of his refusal to focus on Clinton and because he took leave to fulfil his duties as an Air Force reservist.
That Gowdy and the committee had settled Podliska's lawsuit in December 2016 was previously known. The amount of that settlement was not previously disclosed.
Podliska's attorney, Peter Romer-Friedman, told the Post that he could not discuss the details of the settlement. But he said he was not aware of any other veterans status discrimination and retaliation cases brought in the past five years.
“I can confirm that my client is one person who brought a veterans status discrimination and retaliation suit against Congress and that the case settled on terms that were satisfactory to my client,” he said.
Amanda Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for Gowdy, told the Post that the congressman never met or communicated with Podliska and referred the newspaper to the House Employment Counsel, the office representing members of Congress.
The House Select Committee on Benghazi closed last year after issuing its final report. Gowdy now serves as the chairman of the powerful House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Thanks to Mr. Max Greenwood and TheHill.com

WHY ARE OUR TAXES SO HIGH?

IF THIS WERE TRULY A GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE, we would have laws preventing those WE ELECT AND THAT WE PAY from SCREWING UP OUR TAX SYSTEM. There should be a law stating that if the candidate for office (appointed or otherwise) has back taxes due (remember Tim Geithner?) they cannot hold office until and for 2 year after they brought their taxes up to date: I.E. PAID IN FULL. I'm proud of our country and it's President Obama... but when Obama allowed him to waltz through WITHOUT PAYING ANY PENALTIES, I was truly disguisted. Below is a quote from the "Wall Street Journal"




In 2006, the IRS audited Mr. Geithner's 2003 and 2004 taxes and concluded he owed taxes and interest totaling $17,230, according to documents released by the Senate Finance Committee. The IRS waived the related penalties.





During the vetting of Mr. Geithner late last year, the Obama transition team discovered the nominee had failed to pay the same taxes for 2001 and 2002. "Upon learning of this error on Nov. 21, 2008, Mr. Geithner immediately submitted payment for tax that would have been due in those years, plus interest," a transition aide said. The sum totaled $25,970.



IS IT ME OR DID WE JUST LET A CROOK, CHEAT AND LIER into office?