Hot GOP Culture of Corruption Here! Come and Get IT!
The Culture of Corruption ain’t over until the fat lady sings, and that isn’t likely to be for a while yet. The guy in court today, Felipe Sixto, is in the process of a plea bargain for stealing thousands of USAID funds. Yes, this time it is theft of, not misuse, of taxpayer dollars. He was a Special Aide to President George W. Bush.
A Bush aide, Felipe Sixto, resigned last March amidst some serious rumors that there were some financial improprieties involving the USAID money he administered while he was working for the Center for Free Cuba. When he resigned last March Mr. Sixto was serving as Special Assistant to President Bush for Intergovernmental Affairs. He has now been indicted. From the Washington DC Examiner:
On Thursday, Sixto was charged in federal court with stealing thousands of dollars from the nonprofit agency. The alleged theft occurred from March 2005 to January 2008, while Sixto, a 29-year-old graduate of American University, worked at the Center for a Free Cuba and after he went to work for the White House in July 2007, court documents said. Sixto was charged via criminal information, which typically signals that a plea agreement is in the works.
As TPM notes, this is theft of taxpayer dollars. Seems to me that’s a whole lot worse than the usual Bush Administration crime of tragic misuse (Iraq) of taxpayer dollars.
