Return to Article: Key OMB official arrested
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Hey taxpayer (and who isn't?), go to this article in the Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/21/AR2005092101496.html. It'll give you a few more details (but somehow I don't think that's what you're after). Not only is Safavian accused of false statements. He saw no problem doing business with terrorist supporters and humanitarian-challenged regimes. Yup, this administration has no problem with hiring the less than ethical much like Reagan did.
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Is anyone concerned about the 2003 Services Acquisition Reform Act, written by Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va. and heavily supported/enacted by Safavian, that requires the heads of 17 agencies to name political appointees as chief acquisition officers? Given the questionable ethical behavior of Safavian, a political appointee, is this plan a "red herring"???? BTW, Mrs. Safavian is Rep. Davis' chief counsel for all matters regarding Acquistion reform.
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Hey Procurement --
We're not talking about an ethical conflict of interest. We're talking about lying to investigators. That's illegal. No matter how you might spin it (i.e., I was just having fun with my contractor/lobbyist buddies on the public's dime), it's against the law.
If you have such little respect for the law, maybe you should get out of procurement.
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It amuses me that this is the fellow who is in charge of A-76. NO WONDER he's so gung-ho about outsourcing the federal government. He's getting kickbacks! But, given the track-record of the Bush administration, should we really be surprised?
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Feds beware! The Bush Justice Department is out to get you and just to prove it they eat their own. You do not have to be a contracting officer or even in the program office to have an ethical conflict of interest. You don't have to just worry about existing contractors and potential contractors - you also have to worry about friends, associates and former colleques. You don't want to ever help an old friend, a former employer or a small businessman through the maze of government, and you certainly do not want to accept a lunch, ticket or a golfing trip with any of the above - even if you pay for it yourself - unless, of course, you are a member of Congress. But worse, worse by far, is to not tell every IG, every ethics officer everything you know or should have known about your grandmother's investment portfolio before agreeing to do anything - or they will come back and argue that you lied and withheld information fom them when they made the decision that that lunch, ticket, gift or trip was ok.
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To Taxpayer:
DOJ released the three-count criminal indictment on 09/19. Go to: http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=53613 to read the facts.
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I hope GovExec writes a little more about this. How often does stuff like this happen?
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Martha Stewart went to prison for lying to the feds, and so should this pathetic taxpayer's parasite!!
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yet another smoke screen to distract the peons, this administration is out of control !
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Geez! Way down here, six levels below the President, the Government is concerned that buying a federal contracting officer lunch will influence their decision on a pending contract. Mr. Safavian, thanks for reinforcing the public's negative sterotype of the Government acquisition workforce. Hopefully, the powers that be appoint you to a nice cell where you can review your ethics manual.
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And just today we received an email memo from none other than Rumsfeld himself reminding all of us bottom-feeders to be sure to take the ethics training required annually. What a bunch of BS!
Disgusted American
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Boy, what a shock.........Sometimes the political corruption and patronage system just doesn't work right and somebody gets caught.
Does anyone else smell an eventual pardon????
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It is about time! Further investigation needs to be carried out regarding key E-gov project awards that were influenced by the likes of Safavian, his wife, and Tom Davis' office, such as eSRS and FedBiz Opps.
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First Mr. Brown resigns for performance for horribly bungling the emergency response over Hurricane Katrina and now the head for all Government procurement officials and a senior official of OMB, as described in this month's GOVEXEC Magazine's profile of the government chiefs, resigns and is arrested. OMB reports directly to the President of the United States.
Performance and ethics-- I wonder how many other administration officials will soon be going home for performance and ethics charges. Loyalty and strict adherence to a single ideology cannot be the sole criteria for selecting government managers.
We have a federal civil service for a very good reason-- to stop the filling of senior positions with political hacks. It is such a pity that this administration has ignored this important lesson in good governance. As a professional civil servant I am truly appalled at what I have witnessed over the past few weeks. Good government requires competent and professional management.
HR Specialist
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Unbelievable!! Another procurement top dog - what an embarassment to those of us who have been in the procurement field for many years doing an HONEST job!!! Certainly does erode the confidence we have in upper management and the policy makers.
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This piece is nothing but character assassination. There is no mention of the specifics of the charges. There is a clear attempt to find the man guilty but no evidence presented or discussed. Guilt by association is not guilt. Reporters and editors should not print this type of dribble until they get some of the facts. In this case the article does not even tell us if the offense was committed while he was at GSA or at OMB or acting as a consultant. I think you guys need to publish some facts relative to this case and not that he played golf and flew on a private jet!
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What does this say about the integrity of the procurement process?
I never thought I'd see the day when the President's Procurement Chief was led away in handcuffs.
This is atrocious.
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Yet another criminal member of this administration under arrest. From yet another job filled by the President's handlers who have worked diligently to replace qualified civil servants with political hacks. And all we've lost is the moral integrity of the American government and, in the case of Katrina, the lives of 900 Americans. Maybe someone can tell me: what does this President (not to mention Ralph Reed), mean when he says he's a Christian?
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First Brownie, now Safavian...is there a competent, law-abiding political appointee left in the Bush administration?
OMB should make "following the law" a new category on its dopey management scorecard.
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