Good day all. For the last two months, we have seen Elon Musk and the Department of Governmental Efficiency auditing various Progressive bureaucracies, discovering just how wasteful, incompetent and corrupt they are. One of these agencies is the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. (FMCS)
This agency was ordered downsized (Probably to zero), By President Trump. Doge came in to audit the place and what they found is literally a caricature of a Deep State Bureaucracy. Here are the details from the Daily Wire:
One of the seven small federal agencies that President Donald Trump ordered downsized or eliminated on Friday was rife with corruption, with its employees hiring friends and relatives, commissioning paintings of themselves, and using government credit cards to indulge in constant luxuries.
I would suggest you not have anything in your mouth when you read on from this point. It would help if you actually had an empty stomach since what is coming will make you sick.
The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) occupied a nine-story office tower on D.C.’s K Street for only 60 employees, many of whom actually worked from home, prior to the pandemic.
Nine stories? At best, depending on the building, they might need a floor at most and probably significantly less. If no one actually went into the office, then the entire thing should have been shut down. If the space was leased, break the lease. If it’s government owned, it needs to be sold. I know that K Street office space is not cheap either.
Its managers had luxury suites with full bathrooms; one manager would often be “in the shower” when she was needed, while another used her bathroom as a cigarette lounge.
I would love to have an office with a full bathroom. Well, technically I do since I work from home. As for that manager who was “Always in the shower?” Who did she think she was? Disney’s CEO, Bob Iger, aka Two Shower Bob?
FMCS recorded its director as being on a years-long business trip to D.C. so he could have all of his meals and living expenses covered by taxpayers, simply for showing up to the office.
Well, that looks like flat out fraud to me. Hopefully the DoJ is starting to look into that one.
FMCS is a 230-employee agency that exists to serve as a voluntary mediator between unions and businesses.
Why is this even needed? This sounds like something that the Department of Labor could handle, or this could actually be handled by an outside service. Both sides pay the mediator so that would insure impartiality.
As an “independent agency,” its director nominally reports to the president, but the agency is so small that in effect, there is no oversight at all — and it showed, becoming a real-life caricature of all the excesses that the Department of Government Efficiency has alleged take place in government.
According the to story, the reporter, (I like the fact that he doesn’t refer to himself as a “Journalist.” It means he’s actually doing real work), Luke Rosiak, about 10 years ago he spent a year digging into this rats nest. What he found was, “Egregious and self-serving violations of hiring, pay, contracting, and purchase card rules.” What he couldn’t find was a reason for it’s existence.
I could not discover is why the agency actually existed, other than to provide luxurious lifestyles for its employees. Endless junkets to resort destinations, which employees openly used to facilitate personal vacations, were justified as building awareness of the agency in the hopes that someone would actually want to use its voluntary services.
I have a suspicion that all of these “Trips to build awareness” went to places like Hawaii, Cancun and the United States Virgin Islands.
FMCS employees “unblocked” their government credit cards to turn off typical abuse protections, then used them to apparently fund personal expenses and simply bill anything they’d like to the government. One employee leased a BMW; another (IT director James Donnen) billed the government for his wife’s cell phone, cable TV at both his home and his vacation home, and even his subscription to USA Today.
Employee Dan W. Funkhouser used his FMCS card to rent a storage unit near his home in rural Virginia, two hours from the office he supposedly worked at, which was used to store personal possessions such as a photo album of his dog, Buster. Funkhouser also spent $18,000 at a jewelry store near his house, and “destroyed all purchase card records upon leaving the agency,” an audit said.
When Charles Burton retired from FMCS, he incorporated an LLC to which another FMCS employee paid $85,000 using his purchase card, listing it as a “Call Center Service,” even though the company had neither a website nor a working phone.
Well now, I think we may have finally found an actual criminal enterprise. The word that comes to mind is “Embezzlement.” I certainly hope Kash Patel is looking into this. The good news is that not every single one of these “Government Employees” was a crook. One did try to do the right thing.
When an accountant, Carol Booth, blew the whistle on financial abuses to the General Services Administration, which manages purchase cards and contracting, Cohen forced her to send an email (which he wrote under her name) rescinding her statement.
I suspect we can add threats of retaliation and potentially physical violence to the list of charges that the FBI needs to look into. The next line item of crime was good old fashioned nepotism and I suspect a few “No-Show” jobs.
FMCS used federal jobs as a spigot of cash for friends and relatives. Allison Beck, a former union lawyer who became a top FMCS official, employed her sister-in-law as a “special assistant,” and an inspector general found evidence that she tried to create a high-level job for a friend.
The story goes on to list one crime after another. Apparently, this was all handed over to the FBI, but nothing was done about it. Why? Care to guess who was the president at the time?
We always knew Obama was a dirtbag, but instead of putting these people in prison, he promoted them.
An inspector general made a referral to the FBI, but there were no prosecutions. Instead, President Barack Obama nominated a chief subject of the investigation to the top job.
Now President Trump has killed this hive of scum and villainy. The only question I have is will actual indictments and criminal charges happen? It’s possible that the statute of limitations may have passed. However, if these criminal masterminds neglected to pay taxes on all their ill gotten gains?
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