Hat tip to Youth Today for the scoop!
Source: Youth Today
Source: Youth Today
A federal juvenile justice official who was fired on June 24 had helped selected organizations apply for Justice Department grants past the deadline - a significant violation of department policy - and directed employees to help a favored organization win a grant, according to federal documents.
Michele DeKonty, who served as chief of staff at the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), played a central role in grant awards that are under congressional investigation. She recently took the Fifth Amendment when asked to speak with investigators from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which is probing whether OJJDP awarded grants based on political favoritism and personal connections.
OJJDP Administrator J. Robert Flores offered no explanation in announcing her departure in a memo to staffers on the morning of June 25, saying, "Yesterday, [DeKonty] ended her tenure with our Office."
Former OJJDP employee Scott Peterson who blew the whistle on his boss, J. Robert Flores' shady decision making tactics on grants had this to say on Youth Today website:
scott peterson - 6/25/2008 One down - one to go. I am sure just about all the staff and the greater juvenile justice community across America will rest easier when the email comes out that OJJDP Administrator Robert Flores is leaving. I for one know I will be at his going away party - if only to make sure he is really leaving - so OJJDP can start to heal and do the fine work it used to for the children, youth and young people in this country.
4 comments:
Thank you Justice League. This is Scott Peterson - The former Justice Department Employee who is also the Whistleblower. There is much more to come in this scandal rocking the Justice Department.
I have long been a fan of the Justice League and especially the Green Lantern.
Thank you for taking note of this outrageous abuse of tax payer funds on behalf of the children and youth in America. I will pass on the link to your article to several thousand in my update tomorrow and feel free to contact me anytime - dryouthcourt@aol.com
Scott B. Peterson
This is one of many agencies that have misused our tax dollars. NO one is watching the store as the crooks steal. This answers the question as to why we're in a recession. This Administration opened the US Treasury and stole as much as possible as fast as they could.
This is one of many agencies that have misused our tax dollars. NO one is watching the store as the crooks steal. This answers the question as to why we're in a recession. This Administration opened the US Treasury and stole as much as possible as fast as they could.
Well, thank you Scott for visiting the blog and for the kind words. I thank you mostly for exposing the fraud and cronyism of grant making decision making in the OJJDP. It is amazing how much the Justice Department is so much corrupted. More importantly, it is shameful and disgraceful of what the Jistice Department has done to the mistreatment of funds that belong to the kids and the organizations that do deserve that grant.
Finally, thank you for passing my link to others. I really appeciate it. And I will send you in an email tomorrow.
p.s. Glad you are a fan of the Justice League. I always love the concept of Justice League of America vs. League of Doom. And we are certainly have been living in the legend of doom for 7 1/2 years.
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