Posted on 03/28/2008 1:02:27 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON - An aide to President Bush has resigned because of an alleged misuse of grant money from U.S. Agency for International Development and his former employer, a Cuban democracy organization.
Felipe Sixto was promoted on March 1 as a special assistant to the president for intergovernmental affair and stepped forward on March 20 to reveal his alleged wrongdoing and to resign, White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said on Friday.
The matter has been turned over to the Justice Department for investigation, Stanzel said. He said Bush was briefed on the case and felt that the approriate action was being taken.
Sixto joined the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs in July 2007 and was assigned to deal with state legislators, Native American groups and Hispanic officials on issues such as Cuba, Puerto Rico, health, labor, transportation, the environment and energy, Stanzel said.
His previous employer was the Center for a Free Cuba, which describes itself as an independent, nonpartisan institution dedicated to promoting human rights and a transition to democracy and the rule of law in Cuba.
"Mr. Sixto allegedly had a conflict of interest with the use of U.S. AID funds by his former employer," Stanzel said. He said he did not know how much money was involved or the particulars of the allegations.
See post 19
I guess they did not get a big enough share of the trillions of US tax dollars bleeding into the Mideast (/sarc).
This guy is as much a “presidential aide” as the people who dust the furniture in the White House.
While Clinton was POTUS, he was impeached because of the VRWC nut's who politicized everything.
Finally, some decent and honest reporting is available via the unbiased AP outlet that focuses on nothing but the news without a twist. /s
Which is the reason I no longer pay any attention whatsoever to Imam Norquist. He no longer has any credibility.
Paging AG Gonzales........
Leni
He got his job from Bush in July 2007? ....Bush’s second to last year?
Must have been a really close friend! Stop the presses!!!
/sarc
May God bless you and your family; your studies; and surely the wonderful, intrinsically free and magnificently creative, people of beautiful Cuba. Its beauty will forever outlast its despots.
Cuba Libre! - Siempre En Toda Manera Con Dios!
MtnTop
...At the time, Khaleel was a roving jack-of-all-trades in the American underground militant Islamic community. His name and Detroit address both appeared prominently in ledgers taken from the Al-Kifah Refugee Center in 1994, a critical international financial and strategic arm of al Qaeda.
While in Orlando, Florida, Khaleel served as the regional director for the Columbia, Missouri-based Islamic African Relief Agency (IARA), an Islamic charity that had a multimillion-dollar USAID contract cancelled after the U.S. State Department determined that it was not in America's "national-security interests." In Columbia itself, Khaleel operated a remote-branch office on behalf of radical Saudi dissidents based in London [MIRA] who were closely aligned with Osama bin Laden. He even added a digitized copy of an infamous al Qaeda propaganda video titled "The Martyrs of Bosnia" to his own short-lived Internet website, salam.net. ---------- "“Axis of Evil” Indicted Hamas leader linked to al Qaeda activist in Midwest nationalreview.com," by Evan Kohlmann, January 2, 2003, 9:20 a.m., http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/815679/posts?q=1&&page=21
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