Culture of Corruption: Czars of the Obama Underworld
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Meet Urban Czar Adolfo Carrión, Jr. He’s one of my Culture of Corruption Dirty Dozen collectibles. In conjunction with the book launch tomorrow, my friend Tennyson Hayes (whose terrific graphic art has been featured here since last spring) and I cooked up 12 trading cards featuring some of Team Obama’s most interest-conflicted, ethics-compromised, crony officials chronicled in the book. You’ll read more here about The Dirty Dozen throughout the week. But as you’ll see after you dive into Culture of Corruption (officially out tomorrow, but readers tell me they’re seeing it in stores this weekend), those 12 are just the tip of the iceberg. I’ve got enough profiles of Team Obama corruption and cronyism to fill an entire 54-card set.
Below is my special piece for the New York Post today on Carrión and my other nominees for Obama’s worst czars. Auto czar Steve Rattner, entangled in an SEC investigation of his former company, Quandrangle, topped that list until he stepped down earlier this month amid the darkening ethics cloud. And I’ve already reported extensively on transparency-undermining energy czar Carol Browner. So I chose three of the shady czars who haven’t been on the public’s radar screen — and should be: health care czar Nancy DeParle, Carrión, and technology czar Vivek Kundra.
Looking for an up-to-date list of czars?
Terresa Monroe-Hamilton is keeping track here.
Taxpayers for Common Sense has a chart here.
And there’s a czar chart on Wikipedia here.
What can we do to fight the phantom menaces controlling huge swaths of the economy and government? The Rattner resignation shows that sunlight can indeed be the best disinfectant. Stay informed. Keep pressuring Congress for accountability and disclosure. And know your enemy. I wrote Culture of Corruption to give readers a comprehensive road map of the Team Obama members undermining transparency, cashing in on the Washington revolving door, and short-circuiting representative government. Use it!
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CZARS OF THE OBAMA UNDERWORLD
By Michelle Malkin
Special to the NYPost
If you can’t beat ’em, czar ’em. This is the standard operating procedure in Obama World. The time-honored Senate confirmation process proved to be a dangerous landmine for one too many of the president’s picks. But the White House found the perfect cure for Obama Nominee Withdrawal Syndrome: Avoid future debacles by circumventing the nomination process altogether.
So far, czars have been installed in at least 35 posts through presidential executive orders that require no Senate approval. No Senate review, no questions. No questions, no problems.
The Obama administration has created a two-tiered government—fronted by Cabinet secretaries able to withstand public scrutiny (some of them, just barely) and then managed behind the scenes by shadow secretaries with broad powers beyond congressional reach. Bureaucratic chaos serves as a useful smokescreen to obscure the true source of policy decision-making. Energy czar Carol Browner epitomized the secretive dealings of these offices when she advised auto industry executives this month “to put nothing in writing, ever” about their meetings with her.
While past administrations dating back to the Nixon era have designated such “super aides,” none has extended the concept as widely as Obama has. Currently, 35 out of 44 current “czar” slots are presidential appointments. They are among the highest-paid staffers at the White House. Most of Obama’s key czars have Cabinet counterparts already in place.
It’s not just the unprecedented quantity of White House-appointed bureaucratic commissars that galls. It’s their shockingly compromised ethics and integrity. Here are three of Obama’s most interest-conflicted, superfluous, and criminal czars and czarinas:
Nancy DeParle, health czar
Former Kansas Democrat Governor Kathleen Sebelius won Senate confirmation as Health and Human Services Secretary. But the real power lies with with newly-created health czar Nancy-Ann Min DeParle. Her official title: Director of the White House Office for Health Reform.
DeParle ran the behemoth Medicare and Medicaid programs under Bill Clinton. She parlayed her government experience into a lucrative private-sector stint. Over the past three years, she made nearly $6 million from her work in the health care industry. Despite President Obama’s loud denunciations of the revolving-door lobbyist culture in Washington, DeParle’s industry ties didn’t bother the White House.
She served as an investment advisor at JP Morgan Partners, LLC; sat on the board of directors at Boston Scientific Corporation; and held directorships at Accredo Health Group Inc., Triad Hospitals (now part of Community Health Systems), and DaVita Corporation. In all, she sat on at least ten boards while advising JP Morgan and working as managing director at a private equity firm, CCMP Capital.
From 2002 to 2008, while holding all those titles, DeParle also served as a member of the government-chartered Medicare Payment Advisory Committee (MedPAC), an influential panel that advises Congress on what Medicare should cover and at what price. Last month, former MedPAC member DeParle cozily announced that Obama was “open to making recommendations of [MedPAC] mandatory unless opposed by a joint resolution of Congress.”
Obama famously signed an early executive order requiring appointees to pledge not to participate “in any particular matter involving specific parties that is directly and substantially related to any former employer or former clients” for a period of two years from the date of his or her appointment. But it’s hard to imagine any health care reform-related issue that won’t involve one of DeParle’s former employers, clients, and corporate boards in the health care industry. She earned at least $376,000 from Cerner Corporation, for example, which specializes in health information technology. As health czar, DeParle has unmeasured clout in directing $19 billion of federal stimulus money earmarked for, yes, health information technology.
Last week, a Washington, D.C. citizen watchdog filed suit to force the White House to disclose which health care lobbyists and executives it had met with this year to discuss insurance takeover legislation. White House counsel Greg Craig refused to disclose which administration officials attended the meetings. But at least two of the industry visitors have ties to DeParle. William C. Weldon is chairman of Johnson & Johnson, which paid DeParle $7,500 for a recent speech. Wayne Smith is chief executive of Community Health Systems, which merged with Triad Hospitals – where DeParle served on the board of directors. DeParle’s options were converted to cash payments worth $1.05 million.
Despite Obama’s lip service to transparency, the public is in the dark about which assets DeParle has divested and how many times, if any, DeParle has recused herself from policy matters and meetings. Czardom has its privileges.
Adolfo Carrion, urban czar
Former Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión Jr., the nation’s “urban czar” is a man in Obama’s own image: Son of immigrants. Charismatic. Ambitious. And embroiled in pay-for-play scandals that would make the Chicago political machine proud.
Carrion’s official title: Head of the White House Office of Urban Affairs. But doesn’t the president already have a Secretary of Housing and Urban Development? Yes. That spot went to Harvard grad and former Clinton HUD official Shaun Donovan, who moved up from his role as New York City commissioner of housing and development. Grievance groups, however, were miffed that the HUD job didn’t go to a racial or ethnic minority. (Donovan is white; HUD is a notorious bastion of cronyism of color.) Enter Carrión.
As a reward for turning out the Latino vote, Obama gave Carrion the unprecedented power to shower federal dollars on urban areas and coordinate urban policy across several bureaucracies. In practice, the job empowers Carrión to carry out the kind of pay-to-play schemes that sullied his tenure in the Bronx on a nationwide scale. It’s Obama-approved old school patronage dressed up as the new urban renewal.
As Bronx Borough president, Carrion took tens of thousands of dollars in donations from real estate firms just before and after the developers snagged lucrative deals or crucial zoning changes for their projects. In turn, he made millions in public tax dollars available to his cronies. And Carrion rubber-stamped three housing projects for an architect whom he hired to renovate his City Island Victorian home. It is illegal for an elected official to accept such a gift, but Carrión failed to pay the architect until after he was tapped for his urban czar post. The White House shrugged.
Similar arrangements involving home renovation freebies from corporate suitors resulted in multiple criminal convictions (later set aside over prosecutorial misconduct) for entrenched Alaska GOP Senator Ted Stevens and forced the resignation of Republican former Connecticut Governor John Rowland. But there was barely a peep from the Beltway’s clean government types about Carrión’s smelly deals. He is also a lavish spender – squandering nearly $20,000 on a teleprompter, junkets to San Juan, and $50,000 on a going away party for himself. Viva la Hope and Change.
Vivek Kundra, technology czar
Who thinks putting a shoplifter in charge of the entire federal government’s information security infrastructure is a good idea? The Obama White House has complete confidence in Vivek Kundra, the 34-year-old “whiz kid” named Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) in March 2009 despite his criminal history. As first reported by Ed Morrissey at HotAir.com, Kundra was convicted of misdemeanor theft. He stole a handful of men’s shirts from a J.C. Penney’s department store and ran from police in a failed attempt to evade arrest. Kundra was a 21-year-old adult at the time of his attempted thievery and attempted escape from the police. From the White House’s pooh-poohing of the incident as a “youthful indiscretion,” you might have thought the digits in his age were reversed.
Whitewashing the petty thief’s crimes, Obama instead effused about his technology czar’s “depth of experience in the technology arena.” As the nation’s CIO, Kundra “will play a key role in making sure our government is running in the most secure, open, and efficient way possible.” But the aura of security and openness was further thrown into doubt in March when an FBI search warrant was issued at Kundra’s office. He was serving as the Chief Technology Officer of the District of Columbia before moving over to the White House.
During the transition, two of Kundra’s underlings, Yusuf Acar and Sushil Bansal, were charged in an alleged scheme of bribery, kickbacks, ghost employees, and forged timesheets. Kundra was put on leave for five days and then reinstated after the feds informed him that he was neither a subject nor a target of the investigation. Team Obama emphasized that Kundra had no idea what was going on in his workplace, which employed about 300 workers.
But if his claimed ignorance is supposed to exonerate Kundra, what does it suggest about his ability to police government technology operations across the entire federal government? And what responsibility and oversight exactly did Kundra have over the indicted employees in his office?
Veteran D.C. newspaper columnist Jonetta Rose Barras reported that Acar “was consistently promoted by his boss, Vivek Kundra, receiving with each move increasing authority over sensitive information and operating with little supervision.” The raid was no surprise to city and federal watchdogs, who had identified a systemic lack of controls in the office. Now, Kundra promises to create “a culture of accountability and innovation” in order to prevent “theft and fraud.” The anti-crime prevention strategy of Obama’s technology security chief: Takes one to know one.
The czar explosion illustrates the first law of political physics: As government grows, corruption flows. Unchecked, these super-bureaucrats have the power to wreak major havoc on the economy and our lives. Who will stop them?
Michelle Malkin is author of the new book Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies (Regnery).
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As my father told me many times, “you are known and jydged by the company you keep”.
MM. Thank you for flipping the light switch on this “transparent” administration. I look forward to reading the rest of your book.
When you want total power and control, this is one way to do it. If this was a conservative president, he would be up on impeachment charges and attacked in the MSM. The liberals won’t give up power easily, even when voted out. As far as Obama and congress is concerned the Constitution is dead, hoping we don’t notice. The obvious corruption is amazing.
Ha! you must be including 2 jokers and we all know who they are.
True. And the company being interned into this administration is in no way applicable to the best interest of America. Not by a long shot.
Yep, patronage is a time honored American political tradition. That is partly why the Civil Service was created.
Maybe we need another evolution in Government employment focusing on Special Assistants to the President, a/k/a ‘Czars’.
Though it seems to me, it is the number of Czars that is the issue, not so much that Czars exist. There have always been Special Assistants to the President, and there always will be. A precedent has been established that should have been nipped in the bud a long time ago.
As for the individuals chosen for such positions they should explain, or address, any clouds that hang over their heads. Maybe not a full blown Senate hearing, but something that can give the public some peace of mind, and acknowledgement on their part that their past behaviour will not be tolerated.
The MSM is the outlet where this should be addressed.
That statement is VERY scary. Tells me all I need to know about Browner. Since I am sure it applies to the other czars, as well, this is a true shadow government operating in stealth. (At least until MM shines the light on the cockroaches!) Great job, Michelle.
It’s going to take much, much more than just votes to break the corrupt (but, I repeat myself) socialists’ hold on power…way more than just votes.
What is equally worse is the presence of czars and the traditional Federal structure makes management of the government totally unworkable.
It is an organizational model that can only be described as spaghetti. It’s a bloated, wasteful, ineffective, disorganized mess.
Michelle,
Thanks for doing the work the dinosaur dying media fails to do on their new messiah. Sadly this is exactly what many of us expected of the “Marxist in Chief,” but I had no idea it would get to this extent so quickly. We are so screwed!
Absolutely true. The entire federal bureaucracy is full of mini-czars and collectivists believers. We are talking about hundreds of thousands of government employees who believe in AND WANT an all-powerful federal government. You would get a 100% libertarian President in the White House and he/she would barely make a dent in this monster.
La, La, La…..
Catch a falling czar and put him in your pocket
Your presidency is fading away
Catch a falling czar and put him in your pocket
Save it for a arraignment day
For jailtime may come and tap you on the shoulder some czarless night
It’s the case they’ll fail you
You’ll have a pocketful of czarlight
Catch a falling czar and put him in your pocket
Your presidency is fading away
Catch a falling czar and put him in your pocket
Your presidency is fading away ……..
Thanks, Michelle.
The Obama autocracy czardom thrives, without Congressional oversight…and paid for by the American taxpayer.
Nixon appointed the first czar, and coined the term from the ashes of the Romanov’s in Russia (who only had 18 compared to Obama’s 35). Obama has micromanaged the most czars who answer only to him.
I am waiting for appointments for National Religious Practice (Jeremiah Wright), Race Relations (Henry Louis Gates), Celebrity Czar (Oprah), and Elementary Education Theory (Bill Ayers). That should round out the czar buddy system of trust.
To all those morons (including my sister) who STILL say Obama’s past and his “questionable” associates don’t matter…thanks, and I’d like to slap you all silly. His entire cabinet and his unelected, unvetted czars are corrupt to the core. We KNEW this was the kind of people he always hung around with. We KNEW he didn’t have any centrist friends or associates his whole life. We KNEW he was a far-left radical. And yet, for some reason, many of the idiots who voted for him thought he would be centrist as a President. Either that, or they WANT this country to be destroyed. To the people who voted for him because he had a D after his name….or because he is black (1/2 black!), I say…screw you. Sorry to talk that way on a Sunday, but I am so angry!! And by the way, McCain also KNEW all this about Obama, and he should have fought harder and not stifled his campaign by insisting on leaving those issues alone. He betrayed us.
Michelle, I haven’t been very active posting in a long while, but I wanted to thank you for all that you do. I read your blog every day. I can’t imagine how much energy it takes to do all that you do or your monthly energy drink bill for that matter. Thanks for keeping us informed and for applying the disinfecting sunlight to these crooks.
Give em hell happyscrapper!
All I can say is right on!!!
Not only are these ‘ethics compromised’, they are probably in those posts to save O from the obviously despised task of having to do any work reading or analyzing anything himself…leaving him unlimited time to go about espousing issues he actually knows little or nothing about. If ever a man believed in delegating it’s this poor excuse for a leader in the WH.
What he^^^^^^ said!!!
Interestingly … Carrión minus the accent is “carrion” … Merriam-Webster defines that as:
-noun
1. dead and putrefying flesh
2. rottenness; anything vile
Sounds like he is trying hard to live up to his name … and succeeding quite well …
on another “note” …
hey aj … good one buddy …
Obama’s legacy will be chronicled on a new memorial wall erected by the sewage treatment plant immortalizing the final step in the criminalization of our Federal government. These three characters will simply be the first three on the list.
Obama single handedly has lowered the unemployment in the nation. Where can we sign up for a czar job?
jeanie …
any military experienced person can tell you that you can delegate authority … but you can not delegate responsibility …
unfortunately BroBama is trying to do just that so that any failures are always someone else’s fault …
accountability is not a word found in his self-effacing dictionary … let alone in his actual vocabulary …
And btw people, O’Bozo’s poll numbers are heading down, downnn, downnnnnnnn. Moderate dems, and independents are finally waking from their media induced puppy-love haze, and seeing the Manchurian candidate for what he is: a pure bred Marxist, steeped in the ways of Chicago-style political corruption. As to those voters, I guess that’s what happens when you get your political knowledge from NBC and Lettermen. But better late than never. I predict that 2010 will be a massacre for dems who will lose to Repubs in record #’s, and O’Spread-the-Wealth-Around will be a one termer.
Michelle, will your book be available on Kindle anytime soon?
Oh and don’t look now but that stunning Sec of State Billary is going to accomplish what no one has been able to – get us in a war with the ever blustering North Korea. This is personal for her. That’ll teach them to call her a stupid school girl.
Presidential approval index at -11.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
An aspect of the Czar issue that few develop is that they are outside the accountability loop.
First they don’t meet the test of advise and consent by the Senate.
Second it is not clear at all what their records retention requirements are compared to standard government procedures mandated by law.
Great job Michelle! I can’t wait to read the book. I just finished Glenn Beck’s Common Sense, so I’m ready for another great read. I thank God every day for people like you, Michelle, that shine the light on the corruption and cronyism in Washington these days. God Bless You!
OT but how can you not love this woman?
Never mind Michelle, I just ordered your book for my Kindle.
*Thanks Michelle for all that you contribute to getting the truth out there; I’ll get the book as a followup to Common Sense, which I just cracked open; They kind of go together to expose D.C. as the rat bastard infested hell hole it has become; The citizenry has a job to do, and it is not just to mask the odor by rearranging the chairs in D.C., but to make every effort to sanitize it in 2010 and 2012 with many new faces intent on putting Americans first, and special interests out on the street to take part in a truly free market economy.
#15…well said…and right on target!!!
post of the week!!!
The IG Gate stuff is simmering nicely, just below the surface.
With the mood of the MSM slooooowly souring on THE ONE as Messiah, it could easily be that the two will coincide nicely.
The bloom is off the rose. OPERATION OVER-REACH is proceeding well.
“Let all the poisons that lie in the mud hatch out…”
Pre-ordered mine at Amazon – love your work, Michelle.
Michelle – Nice work. Please continue your investigations of “The Czar Chamber”.
How did being Czar work out for that Nickky the Duce dude? A few of his ancestors and predecessors did not end up well either
What from I have read the term for Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great is dred-great and terrible. They both murdered their people by the tens of thousands-I guess that is what Czars do.
There is no place in a Republic for Czars.
Damn Rebels, lay down your arms! No.
Doesn’t this violate SARBOX? These contacts would seem to be especially germane to issues of corporate governance.
With what B. HUSSEIN, the MARXIST, has planned for AMERICA, I can see the need for all the CZARS… CAVUTO has been raising HELL on this problem for many months now… Appointed by the PREZ, answerable to NOBODY… Incredible that this is happening, and only a small few have a problem with it… Shame on the ON THEIR KNEES MSM, for letting this administration have CARTE BLANCHE with our COUNTRY and our CONSTITUTION…
I agree with Happy #15.
I was never one to give much credence to conspiracy theories, but I’m starting to look closer at the comparisons to Hitler that I see more and more lately.
The similarities are just too hard to ignore. And to think that half of our population and nearly all of our press adore him, it’s just unbelievable.
Thanks Michelle for you keeping us informed on this bho and team. I look forward to reading it.
I have a feeling with you new book, you won’t be getting a Christmas card from bho and mo this year.
L
Great investigative work, Michelle. Your book is on my to read list.
I know what you mean. I’ve got a ton on the maternal side that did the exact thing: hunters, servicemen, Sunday school teachers, homemakers, business men, etc.
The D after the name gets ‘em every time.
Carrion…isn’t that a dead animal carcass?
In one of those delicious ironies, Amazon sucked “1984″ and “Animal Farm” right off peoples’ Kindles. Could be a long wait for MM on Kindle…
If you do not know Niall Ferguson, you should.
One more from Niall Ferguson:
from mr. webster:
carrion – dead and decaying flesh.
Knew this would smell bad.
Think about Michelle Obama’s staff, far more than any previous first lady with a combined salary in excess of 1.5 million dollars.
You can bet the number of staff for each of those czars dwarfs hers. And all those folks are not working in a myriad of cubicles in one huge open bay underneath DC’s Nationals (baseball) Park. The funding for them and their high-priced office space, together or separately, has to show in a line item in some budget bill. Aha! Remember all those new government jobs Obama was going to create? Many of them are the thousands of deputies, assistants, and staff members working for those czars
Can we have a Presidental recall election?
AlohaGuy…it is supposed to be downloaded to my Kindle tomorrow…we shall see.
How else is Obama going to keep his promise to create jobs? You wouldn’t expect him to actually use some of the stimulus money to lower taxes for small business owners so they can start hiring again, would you? He’s got to milk those people to pay for Obamacare and Cap and Tax. If that puts more Americans out of work, oh well; at least he has a bigger pool from which to draw future czars.
Obama’s reelection slogan for 2012 will be:
Obama: Putting America back to work one czar at a time.
Adolph Carrion…sounds like a villian from Batman or Dick Tracy.
Look forward to reading the new book, just wish it was written by a current (rather than former) resident of Maryland–we have so little to be proud of these days!!!
It was called “Crowded Out”
Hawaii’s experiment with universal health care, failed experiment. First in the nation to attempt universal health care. To cover 3,500 children but parents dropped their private coverage and took advantage of taxpayer funded health care. It ended after 7 months.
http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/07/hawaiis-experiment-in-universal.html
So now every Racist punk comes out of the woodwork like cockroaches….
Thank you for that great compliment! And the others who ditto’d me. I posted that this a.m. and then had to dash off to my grandson’s baptism. Just got home from a great day with family and friends. We need to keep exposing these creeps to the light of day, as Michelle does so well with her blogs and her books. Thank God for people like Michelle, Beck, Hannity, Levin, and Rush Limbaugh, whose talent is on loan from Gawd!!!
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isn’t that the truth, how can you not?
yes, we can, in this case it’s called impeachment.
Well, it’s payback time for all the friends of Obama. Capital Hill calling, capital hill calling, free jobs for friends of Obama. No experience required. Big salaries and plush office spaces guaranteed. Unlimited fringe benefits. Just assume the position, no vetting required, and be prepared to execute the orders of the Obama on demand, like a parrot. Obama wants this. . .awwwwwwkkk! Yes sir, right away sir. Obama wants that. . .awwwwwwkkkkkk! Yes sir, immediately sir. No thinking required. Morons and those with previous criminal experience get head of the line privileges.
Michelle, I see that you will be on Hannity tomorrow night to lay out the ugly truth before a candid world. I look forward to seeing you once again on prime time.
Interesting discovery. In 2007, Valerie Jarrett donated $2,300 to the Obama campaign. The same year, somebody named “Valeri Jannett”, also from Chicago and having the same employer as Ms. Jarrett, donated $2,100 to Obama. Given Ms. Jarrett’s high profile position in the administration, I would have thought that someone would have brought this up by now. A quick Google search for the two names only brings up this blog post… from nearly a year ago.
Michelle: it has truly been a privilege to work with you. Thanks for the opportunity.
Everybody else: Culture of Corruption is a must-read. I thought I knew about this stuff but noooo… there’s so much more.
The depth and detail Michelle’s reporting has uncovered is truly staggering. She’s done the job the corrupt MSM has repeatedly failed to do.
I especially recommend this book for Obama voters. Just so they can find out exactly what they put into office.
Let’s not forget John Holden, who once advocated forced abortions and mass sterilization to counter the “people bomb”.
That was about the same type of “established science” that he and his ilk are trying to peddle today with respect to “global warming”.
Adolph…Carrion…Urban…decay…Vulture…corruption.
Born for the job. Even the name fits, although I like “Vulture of Corruption” better.
So what’s his job going to entail? Coordinating with, and controlling “inner city” predators?
It’s gangsta, yo!!! He speaks da language of oppression expression, homes!
This is why we elected a neighborhood organizer, huh? What’s next…Gay Outreach tsar?
I was hoping it’d be Photoshop Czar.
(What? I could do it. I’m just as capable of being aristocratically unaccountable as anyone else is…)
Nope… try thought police czar. Cover all the bases.
I’m really confused as to how the Oprah did not get in a czar spot…
whazzup wit dat, yo!
My concern is that Obama is using these unelected, unaccountable appointees to figure out the strategy to insure he gets reelected and then unsurps the Constitution to become President for Life. He revels in the ego pumping he gets being the President–you can literally see his head expanding everytime he steps up to a podium.