{"id":34397,"date":"2013-03-04T12:35:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T16:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34397"},"modified":"2013-03-04T12:38:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T16:38:47","slug":"the-heart-warming-story-of-jamari-salleh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34397","title":{"rendered":"The heart-warming story of Jamari Salleh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Make sure you stay for the redemption part, but let’s start with what Jamari did<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Jamari Salleh was hired by the State Department in 1981 as a Foreign Service Officer and was subsequently granted career status. In 1989, she was indicted for submitting falsified claims for reimbursement to the U.S. Government to which she pleaded guilty and received a three-year suspended sentence, four years probation, a $5,000 fine, and was ordered to return the illegally obtained money. The court refused to decide whether Ms. Salleh should be required to resign from the Foreign Service, noting that the “proper decision-maker in that connection should be the Department of State.”<\/p>\n

After her conviction, the Acting Director General of the Foreign Service proposed that she be discharged. At Ms. Salleh’s request, the Foreign Service Grievance Board conducted an evidentiary hearing on the discharge proposal. The Board concluded that discharging Ms. Salleh would violate \u00a7 501 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 since Ms. Salleh’s criminal conduct stemmed from her alcoholism, a disability under the act, and, even if it were not, discharge would still be inappropriate given the effect drinking had on her behavior.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If I’ve said it once I’d said it 8 trillion times: drinking makes you submit falsified claims to taxpayer money.<\/p>\n

But fear not, guess who just got a pardon?<\/a><\/p>\n

I sure hope sequester doesn’t hurt her job prospects.<\/p>\n

BTW, we continued to employ this woman after she was found guilty, because who better to have leading the State Department than a drunk who files phony expense reports:<\/p>\n

In Alexandria, meanwhile, Salleh\u2019s federal conviction dates to 1989. Salleh was a career foreign service officer who was caught, and pleaded guilty to, submitting $7,650 in phony lodging vouchers to the State Department. She was given a three-year suspended sentence, placed on four years of probation, fined $5,000 and ordered to pay $5,900 restitution.<\/p>\n

The State Department then tried to fire her. Salleh appealed to the Foreign Service Grievance Board, saying that her offense stemmed from her alcoholism, and she was reinstated, court records show. The State Department then turned to the federal courts to reverse the grievance board, but two courts upheld the board and Salleh continued to work for State for many years. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Make sure you stay for the redemption part, but let’s start with what Jamari did: Jamari … The heart-warming story of Jamari Salleh<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}