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Defend America on Monday, December 14, 2009 10:40:39 AM
Did AmeriCorps official lie about possible First Lady link to IG firing?
By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
December 14, 2009
Congressional
investigators looking into the abrupt firing of AmeriCorps inspector
general Gerald Walpin have discovered that the head of AmeriCorps met
with a top aide to First Lady Michelle Obama the day before Walpin was
removed.
According to Republican investigators, Alan Solomont,
then the chairman of the Corporation for National and Community
Service, which oversees AmeriCorps, had denied meeting with Jackie
Norris, at the time the First Lady's chief of staff. But
recently-released White House visitor logs show that Solomont met with
Norris on June 9 of this year (as well as on two earlier occasions).
President Obama fired Walpin on June 10 after an intense dispute over
Walpin's aggressive investigation of misuse of AmeriCorps money by
Obama political ally Kevin Johnson, the mayor of Sacramento, California.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Did-AmeriCorps-official-lie-about-possible-First-Lady-link-to-IG-firing-79209617.html