Culture of Corruption: Michelle Obama edition

By Michelle Malkin  •  December 14, 2009 03:59 PM

Back on June 12, I detected Michelle Obama’s fingerprints all over the Americorps IG scandal and flagged the First Lady’s former chief of staff-turned-Americorps senior adviser, Jackie Norris.

So, this is no surprise via Byron York:

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.

After being presented with the visitor logs, investigators say, Solomont explained that he met with Norris to discuss Corporation business but did not discuss the Walpin matter. When pressed, Solomont said he might have made an offhand comment, or a mention in passing, about the Walpin affair, but that he and Norris did not have a discussion about it.

Solomont’s explanations have left both Rep. Darrell Issa, ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Sen. Charles Grassley, top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, frustrated and vowing to continue their investigation of the Walpin matter. In a letter to Solomont, sent Friday, Issa wrote that he has “serious questions about the veracity of your…testimony.”

The latest development in Blago-gate is no surprise, either:

Rod Blagojevich’s lawyers want the FBI to give up details of interviews conducted last year of President Obama, his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, White House adviser Valerie Jarrett and others as part of the investigation into the former governor.

In a Friday filing, Blagojevich attorneys also asked for information regarding first lady Michelle Obama. However, a source said late Friday that the FBI never interviewed the first lady.

Rod Blagojevich’s lawyers want the FBI to give up details of interviews conducted last year with President Obama (from top left), Michelle Obama, Valerie Jarrett and Rahm Emanuel. A source said Friday, the FBI never interviewed the first lady.

Then-President-elect Obama, Emanuel and Jarrett sat down with the FBI about a year ago — just after Blagojevich was arrested on charges of trying to sell Obama’s recently vacated Senate seat to the highest bidder.

Obama revealed he was interviewed in a report he made public last December.

The defense request, filed in federal court, asks for “notes, transcripts and reports” of interviews with the Obamas, Emanuel, Jarrett and union chiefs Thomas Balanoff and Andy Stern.

Wherever there’s a Chicago-flavored stench, Michelle Obama’s name and those of her closest Windy City confidantes are sure to follow.

Too bad the rest of the dinosaur media is so mesmerized by the FLOTUS’s belts and dog stories. There are far more fascinating stories to uncover.

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  1. #1
    On December 14th, 2009 at 4:06 pm, RedDog said:

    mmm…. strange strageic statistics. Can I get an indictment please?

  2. #2
    On December 14th, 2009 at 4:06 pm, RedDog said:

    Try “strategic”…

  3. #3
    On December 14th, 2009 at 4:09 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Transparency = Clear as mud!

    Snarky aside: According to scale that hula hoop is 12′ in diameter!

  4. #4
    On December 14th, 2009 at 4:09 pm, RedDog said:

    And why do these crooks obsess with trying to look like hip ’60s white suburban women?

  5. #5
    On December 14th, 2009 at 4:16 pm, single stack said:

    What’s with the goofy belts MO likes to wear?

  6. #6
    On December 14th, 2009 at 4:20 pm, Flyoverman said:

    mmm mmm mmm Lady McBeth Obama…..

  7. #7
    On December 14th, 2009 at 4:24 pm, Major O said:

    This is all irrelevant!! What about Palin’s so-called bus tour?? I want answers!! /sarc

  8. #8
    On December 14th, 2009 at 4:27 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    A belts worn around the waste can accent a woman’s waspish figure. MO’s belts make her look like a stripeless bumblebee. She looks 5-months pregnant. Her a$$ appears to end at her armpits.

  9. #9
    On December 14th, 2009 at 4:31 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Flyoverman; I take offense at comparing a fine Scottish woman with Michello.

    och, ’tis all.

  10. #10
    On December 14th, 2009 at 4:32 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Pasadena Phil said: She looks 5-months pregnant. Her a$$ appears to end at her armpits.

    yikes. I’m glad ya’ll can see a photo of me…

  11. #11
    On December 14th, 2009 at 4:32 pm, Truesoldier said:

    Was Solomont under oath when he testified? If so can you say Scooter Libby.

  12. #12
    On December 14th, 2009 at 4:50 pm, zyzzyg said:

    Mesmerized by dog and belt stories? How about the shoes? It’s the shoes!

    http://michellemalkin.com/2009/05/01/frugal-shoe-friday/

  13. #13
    On December 14th, 2009 at 4:51 pm, willie peter said:

    I feel nice .. like sugar and spice

  14. #14
    On December 14th, 2009 at 4:55 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    On December 14th, 2009 at 4:32 pm, spaceycakes said:

    No need to worry. The only reason I took what normally would be a cheap shot was because MO opens herself up to it with the “new Camelot” BS. If you want to create an aura of being the “new Jackie Kennedy” by being a fashion plate, it would help if you looked like Jackie instead of MO. She just invites the cheap shots.

    I would also include the two Vogue darlings Valerie Jarrett and Desiree Rogers into this category. Their kind of glamor only appeals to those who find drag queens and transexual men attractive.

    Okay I’m done. No more cheap shots.

  15. #15
    On December 14th, 2009 at 4:59 pm, Regulus said:

    The saying used to be, “Behind every great man is a good woman.”

    Given that Mrs. Hope-a-Dope is the individual who has exerted the greatest influence on Hope-a-Dope’s political career, it seems that there is another kind of woman behind every self-absorbed, naive, arrogant flim-flam man.

    And now we know what kind of woman that is.

  16. #16
    On December 14th, 2009 at 5:04 pm, vsatt said:

    Oh please, if they couldn’t bring Hillary down, Michelle O has nothing to worry about. First black FLOTUS and a “fashion icon” — she’s safe! The MSM will guard her like an army.

  17. #17
    On December 14th, 2009 at 5:23 pm, et said:

    On December 14th, 2009 at 4:27 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    A belts worn around the waste…

    Do I detect a double meaning here using waste for waist?

  18. #18
    On December 14th, 2009 at 5:28 pm, gco said:

    Shouldn’t that back brace go underneath her sweater and shirt?

  19. #19
    On December 14th, 2009 at 5:46 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    I wonder if she and Patty B. are #%&@ing BFFs?

  20. #20
    On December 14th, 2009 at 6:13 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

    Is that a device to measure her total girth after their first term?

  21. #21
    On December 14th, 2009 at 6:42 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    On December 14th, 2009 at 5:23 pm, et said:

    Do I detect a double meaning here using waste for waist?

    Nope. I’m the “Typo King”.

  22. #22
    On December 14th, 2009 at 6:51 pm, purealchemy said:

    Her top looks like a 4-H project.

  23. #23
    On December 14th, 2009 at 6:59 pm, shimauma2 said:

    On December 14th, 2009 at 4:06 pm, RedDog said:
    mmm…. strange strageic statistics. Can I get an indictment please?

    My prayer group has this request regularly, please feel free to join.

    “Father God, please inflict Your justice upon the barry husseins, this prayer with our hope that he was lifted up so you could KNOCK HIM DOWN
    CARTMANLAND STYLE!!

  24. #24
    On December 14th, 2009 at 7:00 pm, DavidHughes said:

    That picture about sums up the dignity of this administration.

  25. #25
    On December 14th, 2009 at 8:30 pm, docflash said:

    RedDog said:
    And why do these crooks obsess with trying to look like hip ’60s white suburban women?

    I have said it before,the country is being ran by the Woodstock generation and all that that entails.

  26. #26
    On December 14th, 2009 at 8:48 pm, Dimsdale said:

    I see MO doing that, and all I could think of was some of the lyrics for the Bertha Butt Boogie….

    When Bertha got movin’ her hips were hummin’ in the wind,
    The ground started shakin’ – no grass grew where she’d been!
    The music was poppin’, the crowd had formed a ring
    ,
    Her sisters yelled, “Boogie, Bertha, do your thing!”.

  27. #27
    On December 14th, 2009 at 11:12 pm, CO2 Producer said:

    [R]ecently-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…

    I question the ti—

    I know. Clichéd.

  28. #28
    On December 15th, 2009 at 8:32 am, jangar said:

    Pasadena Phil said: She looks 5-months pregnant. Her a$$ appears to end at her armpits.

    Where’d they find a hula hoop big enough?

  29. #29
    On December 15th, 2009 at 10:03 am, cheapseat said:

    i won’t be too critical of po old michelle, but if her butt gets much bigger, she will be modelling gone with the wind hoop skirts trying to convince us they have come back into fashion now that we have a black (sorta) president.

  30. #30
    On December 15th, 2009 at 5:19 pm, shooter said:

    I said a year ago that blago would never be tried.
    The obama’s (both barry and misery), jarrett, axelrod, SEIU etc, are all so deeply corrupt and so tightly knit, that if Blago went down so would barry hussein obama. They wont allow that.

    Why…WHY would a SLAM DUNK case take a year to do absolutely NOTHING???
    The case was original postponed just to get it past the inauguration (obama would could not have been inaugurated had it gone forward), now its in a terminal-permanent hold pattern.
    They had to figure out a way to cover lots of tracks, make sure bho isn’t exposed.

    BTW, is michelle obama pregnant? Sure looks like it.

  31. #31
    On December 16th, 2009 at 1:08 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    Another fine example of why lawyers should rarely be elected to public office. The Obamas know how to skirt the law and they don’t need the Blago “issue” raining on their parade. Somebody tell me again what Micky O is supposed to represent. All she is is an ugly photo op.

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