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2 arrested in FBI raid at Obama appointee's office
WTOP News ^ | March 12, 2009 | unk.

Posted on 03/12/2009 8:58:08 AM PDT by FoxInSocks

WASHINGTON - Two officials in the D.C.'s Office of the Chief Technology Officer have been arrested in a federal bribery sting, sources tell WTOP.

D.C. Office of the Chief Technology Officer employees Sushil Bansal and 40-year-old Yusuf Acar have been arrested, sources tell WTOP.

Acar was taken into custody Thursday morning by FBI agents at his home in Northwest D.C.

The FBI is now serving a search warrant at the office of D.C.'s Chief Technology Officer, WTOP has learned.

"We are there as part of a continuing ongoing criminal investigation," FBI Washington Field Office spokesperson Katherine Schweit tells WTOP.

Schweit would not comment on the details of the investigation.

More than a dozen FBI agents - including evidence technicians - at the office, located at 1 Judiciary Square on 4th Street in Northwest, WTOP's Mark Segraves reports.

Most of the employees have been told to go home. Other employees have been segregated into a waiting room.

Segraves reports the FBI's search has expanded from 9th floor offices to 10th floor offices.

A spokesman for D.C.'s U.S. Attorney tells WTOP he cannot discuss the investigation, as it is currently sealed.

On March 5, President Barack Obama named D.C. Chief Technology Officer Vivek Kundra as the federal government's chief information officer.

Kundra's last day was March 4.

Kundra, who was in charge of technology in the District since 2007, has been a consultant to Obama since he won the election.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhocio; corruptdems; fbi; kundra; obama; technology; tm
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To: AH_LiveRight

Foreign Nationals have spread like a Syphilis, and are busy smiling at us while destroying our secrets that are paramount to national defense.
AQ Khan has many brothers and sisters at the CDC,Nasa,Northrop-Grumman,Universities and Colleges, the list goes on and on.
Meanwhile we pat ourselves on the back for being high minded as they snigger and haul our safety and econmic prosperity out the door.


101 posted on 03/12/2009 12:02:27 PM PDT by redstateconfidential (" An American Idol President")
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To: redstateconfidential

Does O have a Teleprompter Czar yet?

Hope these people aren’t in charge of the keyboard;he’ll be up the creek sans paddle.


102 posted on 03/12/2009 12:08:54 PM PDT by homegroan (Proud to be a Palinite!)
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To: AH_LiveRight

White House got heads up before FBI raid

Gibbs declined to comment on the investigation, calling it a serious matter.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D96SLH7G0&show_article=1


103 posted on 03/12/2009 12:09:46 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: kcvl
Related article ( at least in my mind...)...FR Thread:

Barack Hussein Obama is a committed Marxist -- what are Americans going to do about it?

104 posted on 03/12/2009 12:18:35 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (What happened to my IRAs)
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To: newfreep

Name: Vivek Kundra
Age: 32
Born:born in New Delhi , India. moved to Tanzania at the age of one and lived there until he moved to Gaithersburg, MD at the age of 11.
first language was Swahili; moved to the US in 1985 and took ESL until 9th grade.
Ambition, political or otherwise? To affect change as a public servant


105 posted on 03/12/2009 12:19:50 PM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder & America is dying.)
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To: lefty-lie-spy
See this...

Swahili language From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

*************************EXCERPT******************************

Swahili (called Kiswahili in the language itself) is the first language of the Swahili people (Waswahili), who inhabit several large stretches of the Indian Ocean coastline from southern Somalia to northern Mozambique, including the Comoros Islands.[3] Although only 5-10 million people speak it as their native language,[2] Swahili is a lingua franca of much of East Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is a national or official language of four nations, and is the only language of African origin among the official working languages of the African Union.

**************************

Somali is an Islamic country...mostly....

106 posted on 03/12/2009 12:29:12 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (What happened to my IRAs)
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To: mojitojoe; kcvl

What a KEY appointment.....


107 posted on 03/12/2009 12:30:37 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (What happened to my IRAs)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Families who migrate from India to Africa are generally muslim.


108 posted on 03/12/2009 12:47:38 PM PDT by maica (Barack Obama is a Communist Party Project.)
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To: kcvl
Gibbs declined to comment on the investigation, calling it a serious matter.

This may be nominated for understatement of the year.

From the AP note:Kundra earlier this month was hired to oversee federal government computers as the administration's chief information officer. Kundra is also in charge of security for the vast federal information databanks.

Hey, howsabout we outsource ALL federal databanks to Indian and Pakistani owned and controlled companies? Does anybody else see a potential downside?

109 posted on 03/12/2009 12:49:41 PM PDT by AH_LiveRight
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To: mojitojoe

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/tz.html#People

“Religions:
mainland - Christian 30%, Muslim 35%, indigenous beliefs 35%; Zanzibar - more than 99% Muslim”


110 posted on 03/12/2009 1:01:31 PM PDT by AH_LiveRight
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To: kcvl
All these commies sure like their red and black fashion statements.
111 posted on 03/12/2009 1:20:14 PM PDT by OBXWanderer
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To: truthandlife

“By the way what nationality is Yusuf Acar???”

Acar is Turkish. Vivek Kundra is from India/Tanzania and Bansal is from India. Barack Hussein Obama, they guy who made the appointment, is from Hawaii/Kenya.


112 posted on 03/12/2009 1:25:58 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: DAC21

“White House got heads up before FBI raid”

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gvrjWlkcqeugJxU2lX0f2P2-6ggQD96SLH7G0

The White House says it got a heads up before FBI agents raided the former offices of a new Obama administration technology official.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says the Department of Justice told the White House on Thursday morning of its planned raid at the offices of the District of Columbia’s chief technology officer. Vivek Kundra recently left that post to take a job in the White House. Gibbs declined to say if administration officials knew about the ongoing investigation of the D.C. technology office when they hired Kundra.


113 posted on 03/12/2009 1:40:21 PM PDT by james500
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To: FoxInSocks

Another distraction for us since the Limbaugh distraction backfired? Rahm Emmanuel is working 24/7 in DeLauro’s basement.


114 posted on 03/12/2009 2:35:05 PM PDT by floriduh voter (Terri's Day March 31, 2009. Remember Terri Schiavo in your neck of the woods.)
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To: truthandlife; Calpernia

interesting, there’s Cisco again, Calpernia #60


115 posted on 03/12/2009 2:36:48 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: BykrBayb

This was another ruse.


116 posted on 03/12/2009 2:37:09 PM PDT by floriduh voter (Terri's Day March 31, 2009. Remember Terri Schiavo in your neck of the woods.)
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To: FoxInSocks
From Politico:

"The former CTO, Vivek Kundra, was not a target of the investigation, though the arrest of one of his top aides is a black eye for the 300-employee office and its leaders. He left last week to take the post of chief information officer in the Obama administration."

The funniest line I've read all week. Kundra left last week -- so all the fraud was engineered by his subordinates and it took place -- when? during the last week?

117 posted on 03/12/2009 2:53:50 PM PDT by browardchad
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To: FoxInSocks

And the hits just keep on comin!


118 posted on 03/12/2009 2:58:09 PM PDT by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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To: FoxInSocks

“Sushil Bansal and 40-year-old Yusuf Acar”

sounds like members of ROP. Bribery or espionage?


119 posted on 03/12/2009 3:30:47 PM PDT by dervish (The trouble with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other peopleÂ’s money. Thatcher)
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To: OKSooner

Muslim


120 posted on 03/12/2009 3:34:32 PM PDT by dervish (The trouble with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other peopleÂ’s money. Thatcher)
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