ATF official also holding private-sector job, Congress members say

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Source: Washington post

In an unusual arrangement, a senior official of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives involved in the controversial gun operation Fast and Furious is receiving his government salary while working full time for the investment bank J.P. Morgan, according to two Republican lawmakers.

In a letter Tuesday to B. Todd Jones, the acting ATF director, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) said that Deputy Assistant ATF Director William McMahon, who oversaw the agency’s Western region during the Fast and Furious operation, has been receiving two salaries simultaneously.

The lawmakers said the ATF apparently approved allowing McMahon to remain on paid leave for four or five months while working for the investment bank in order to reach retirement eligibility.

“ATF has essentially facilitated McMahon’s early retirement and ability to double dip for nearly half a year by receiving two full-time paychecks — one from the taxpayer and one from the private sector,” Issa and Grassley wrote.

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1. Is it to burn up accrued sick/annual leave...

...before going off the rolls? It is not uncommon for that to happen.

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2. Made me wonder what job that would be:

"executive director of global security and investigations for J.P. Morgan in the Philippines, according to Issa and Grassley."

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3. Well, if that's what Darrell Issa says I'll wait till the real story comes out

Believing that piece of shit or taking his word for anything would make me a teabagger.

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4. I'm thinking the guy is a GOP. They (Political Appointees) did this all the time

save their leave, both sick and annual, while either working for the private sector or on travel for "outside work." Most political appointees just make life miserable for the career Federal workers by having them jump through hoops to make all their travel and outside work for private companies look legal. Now most of them do this but most are also Republican appointees. I don't know about this person but my guess is he may be a Dem because I don't think Issa would touch him if he were a Republican.