Company fired 9 charged with accessing Obama loans

[babylonsister]

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/barack_obama/index.html?story=/news/feature/2010/05/13/us_obama_student_loans

Company fired 9 charged with accessing Obama loans
Vangent says employees, since indicted, were sacked last year after peeking at president's records
By Associated Press

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A Department of Education contractor in Iowa says it had fired nine employees who now face federal charges for accessing President Barack Obama's student loan records.

Vangent Inc. spokeswoman Eileen Rivera says the workers were fired last June after the company learned of what occurred.

The former employees were indicted this week on charges that they exceeded their authorized computer access while working at a Vangent office in Iowa and accessing Obama's student loan records.

Authorities have not said why the nine employees sought access to the records or if the information was then used in any way. Rivera also would not comment on that.

They are scheduled to be arraigned May 24. The charge is punishable by up to one year in prison and a fine of up to $100,000.

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. I think all nine of them post here. LOL. (nt)

[dionysus]

5. !!!11!!!

:spray:

[theoldman]

2. The problem was not that they peeked at Omaba's loans.

The problem was unauthorized use of the company computers. Most companies have rules like this.

[zbdent]

4. watch the people who screamed about Joe the Dumber, er, Plumber

being checked against child support records (after essentially claiming he'd be affected by Obama's tax plan, meaning he was making over $240K a year) start screaming about the injustices being rained upon these nine ...

[IndianaGreen]

3. This crap happens more often than people realize

Celebrities are often targets. People are entitled to their privacy, regardless of their station in life.

[Cha]

6. Company thought they should be making

better use of their time.

[howaboutme]

7. Yes but what if they were peeking at your records?

Probably not a thing would have occurred, and the question we should have is....why are some treated differently than others? We as a nation are becoming more accepting of a tiered caste society with special justice for the elite, versus average people, and that philosophy will lead to nothing positive except for it to become even more entrenched. Has anyone else ever been charged with this crime and did it involve average Americans? If not this is utter BS.

[Tarheel_Dem]

9. Are you one of the nine? You do know that these days, companies..

take a very dim view of their employees accessing non-approved sites? We just had a meeting about this very thing, a couple of weeks ago. The company reserves the right to track your internet useage, they can read your email, etc.

I'm sure this happens more than is reported, but this was a very high profile case as it involves the POTUS. Your outrage seems misplaced.

[babylonsister]

10. I'm sure this has happened plenty of times, including in 08...

and it's just foolish to mess with records of the President. That's asking for trouble. I don't quite get your outrage.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23736254/
Passport files of candidates breached
Records of Clinton, McCain, Obama inappropriately accessed, officials say

[howaboutme]

11. Can't agree more

Corporations may have rules but they rarely ever work for average people. They work for the CEO, shareholders and profits.

My point was not critical of Obama, as he is our President, but about a need for average Americans to recognize and wage a perpetual fight against a system of special justice and treatment for the so-called elites, while another set of rules is in place for the rest of us.

A caste system is something every American should fight against, yet it gains strength. Equal justice is served and equitably applied only when every culture and demographic in our nation is represented equally in the courts and especially in the SCOTUS.

If one group that represents primary wealth has all the primary power, where does that leave those of us without any wealth or power? Answer: It leaves us screwed and begging for fair treatment. The people of Iraq discovered exactly how it works. The fact remains that a minority that has all the power doesn't work out well for the majority.

This is also about privacy which is non-existent as a philosophy thanks to corporations who profit from exposing our income, our politics, and everything else they can expose. But Congress doesn't care.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. Now I get it. His whole student loan ''reform'' charade was nothing but

smoke and mirrors, to take over the Federal Student Loan program. In order to hide the records which show he was born in Jakarta, Kenya. And went to school in Riyadh, Nigeria. :think:

[Old Troop]

12. Why did they get to borrow money from the President?

Oh, never mind.