Company fired 9 charged with accessing Obama loans

Associated Press ^ | May 13, 2010 | NIGEL DUARA

[Free ThinkerNY]

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- A Department of Education contractor in Iowa said Thursday that nine former employees charged with accessing President Barack Obama's student loan records were fired nearly a year ago.

Vangent Inc. spokeswoman Eileen Rivera said the workers were let go last June for violating the company's security policy after it learned what had occurred.

[EasySt]

Someone should check to see if they are still alive...

[TokuMei]

Ft. Marcy Park, Vince style....?

[dynachrome]

A year ago? So where is the info?

[butterdezillion]

Did the gal who had her workers try to look up dirt on Joe the Plumber get a year in prison and a $100,000 fine? What exactly WAS her punishment? Was she charged with any crime?

[stinkerpot65]

This is a warning from Obama’s thugs.

[surfer]

no doubt.

It is so completely absurd and so sad that we even have to think like this...what have these idiots done to our country?

[UCFRoadWarrior]

If they were employees...how can it be a criminal offense to look at Obama’s records? As long as they did not release them without authorization...there is no crime

It would be a Bill of Attainder if they were being prosecuted for solely looking at Obama’s records.

Someone who is more familiar with the law should chime in.

Of course....during a criminal trial...those records can be released in matters of discovery and argument. To prove they are actually Obama’s records....the jurors and court would have to see such records....

[wtd]

Bill of Attainder. . very interesting. Looked it up at Wiki and found a couple of interesting details. 1.One of the motivations for the American Revolution was anger at the injustice of attainder 2.The United States Constitution forbids bills of attainder under Article I, Section 9. 3.Within the U.S. Constitution, the clauses forbidding attainder laws serve two purposes. First, they reinforced the separation of powers, by forbidding the legislature to perform judicial functions—since the outcome of any such acts of legislature would of necessity take the form of a bill of attainder. Second, they embody the concept of due process, which was later reinforced by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. The text of the Constitution, Article I, Section 9; Clause 3 is "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed". The constitution of every State also expressly forbids bills of attainder.

[deport]

Previous threads on the charges:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=indicted%20charges

The nine former employees are accused of gaining access to a computer at the Vangent office in Coralville office between July 2007 and March 2009, and accessing Obama’s student loan records while he was either a candidate for president, president-elect or president.

They were indicted Wednesday on charges that they exceeded their authorized computer access. The U.S. attorney’s office said a grand jury returned the indictments in U.S. District Court in Davenport.....

The nine are scheduled to be arraigned May 24. The charge is punishable by up to one year in prison and a fine of up to $100,000.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA_STUDENT_LOANS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-05-12-20-07-35

[BossLady]

Chicago Thug Alert!!!

[Hoosier-Daddy]

They know something and this is an attempt to keep them quiet.

[kiltie65]

Too bad these nine weren’t employed by the Hawaiian Dept of Health, Birth Records Dept.

[deport]

You’d think with this going on as far back as to 2007 that if they had anything they’d have sold it to some anti Obama group.

[ballplayer]

I would like to hear them tell what was in rhe records,they would be able to make that fine back pretty quick

[Hoosier-Daddy]

They’d slap them on the hand and say ‘Don’t do it again’.

[onyx]

Thank you for compiling the links, deport.