Posted on 12/23/2014 7:57:15 PM PST by jazusamo
Brian Thompson had a criminal record spanning more than two decades, but that didnt stop him from getting an office job at the Department of Housing and Urban Development earning nearly $90,000 per year.
His extensive criminal history only came to light in recent days after federal prosecutors outlined convictions and charges of armed robbery, theft and larceny against Thompson, who now faces federal prison time for embezzling more than $800,000 from HUD during his short stint as a federal worker.
Now HUD officials are scrambling to figure out how he landed his job, which he was allowed to resign nearly two months after his embezzlement conviction.
We are reviewing the portion of the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) process that HUD controls to understand why there were no background flags, agency spokesman Jereon M. Brown wrote in an email Tuesday. Something should have definitely come up during the background check.
The U.S. attorneys office in Washington filed a sentencing memo in Thompsons case this week outlining theft and larceny arrests and convictions spanning from 1984 to 2007. He also had an armed robbery conviction in 1980 that resulted in probation; a 1998 misdemeanor conviction for check deception; a felony 2008 conviction for receiving stolen property; and probation violation reports filed in 1999, 2000 and 2001, according to prosecutors.
Yet HUD hired him as a GS-13 loan guarantee specialist within the Office of Public and Indian Housing at HUD on May 23, 2011.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
...”basically impossible for federal employees to get fired”...
Yes. That is true.
My son heads up a team for the Vets. Administration and says it’s very diffcicult to even get employees to do their jobs because they know they can’t be fired. There is no incentive to work, he says, and most have very low work ethics to begin with.
Maybe it’s better to make these drones into charity cases even at taxpayer expense then to actually get them running as well oiled cogs in an evil machine. Not that there aren’t other choices, but things have a way of compensating for potential trouble.
You don’t need finger prints for this, he was using his real name. One minute and NICS access should have found this. I would love to see his resume and package from the federal hiring center that processed him.
It’s like the Indian affairs is just this huge heap of maggots that nobody really wants to touch.
Buddy hire maybe? Deeper corruption than this one fellow? You’d think that if he applied at all it would be on a lark, like hey would these suckas really catch what is as obvious as the nose on my face?
Ya know, I found out the hard way... you don’t try to hard to work when you’re on a gummit contract.
too hard
Very possible, they probably believed he’s entitled to another chance even though his rap sheet was as long as your arm.
Some kind of ex-con hire incentive program?
What a know nothing society.
Obama’s government does not discriminate against the incompetent or the criminal, they embrace them!!
This is child play compared to the Head Start Program
How did he land a job with HUD? That’s easy, the Obama admin is filled with crooks who hire other crooks.
Yeah, it does sound like inside job here. This guy will get slapped into the slammer for a while. Those he may have conspired with... maybe less. Maybe not at all.
I think you’re right....get Hud and a host of other Gov. offices out of Gov. altogether. They are nothing more than revenue washing machines...because there is no accountability.
Something else I was thinking...you know these foreign crooks in our Government have nothing to loose....they can always return to their country of birth or whatever.
I remember working with a man who said he loved iversity. I asked him why. (he was a black man). He said becuase he doesn’t like his own culture and this affords him a way of integrating into the white community now that the laws prevent racial remarks etc. He knows well if they even fire him he can use the race card.
I would suspect an foreigner has that card he’ll play.
How did he get there, asks HUD? Really? Did they have to ask if there is a BHO in power?
Democrat?...
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