The Administration that was going to bring integrity back to Washington D.C.
A rundown of Bush appointees who left under a cloud or face
> conflict-of-interest allegations
>
> _Scooter Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney,
> was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in a grand jury
> investigation into the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame. His
> trial also implicated top political adviser Karl Rove and Cheney in a
> campaign to discredit her husband, Iraq war critic and retired
> ambassador Joe Wilson (news, bio, voting record). Libby, who plans an
> appeal, is awaiting a June 5 sentencing.
>
> . Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is fighting to hold onto his job
> in the face of congressional investigations into his role in the
> firing of eight U.S. attorneys. Two top aides have resigned in the
> investigation into whether the firings were politically motivated.
> Emails and other evidence released by the Justice Deparment suggest
> that Rove played a part in the process. Other e-mails, sent on
> Republican party accounts, either have disappeared or were erased.
>
> . Paul Wolfowitz, president of the World Bank and a former deputy
> defense secretary, acknowledged he helped arrange a large pay raise
> for his female companion when she was transferred to the State
> Department but remained on the bank payroll. The incident intensified
> calls at the bank for his resignation.
>
> . J. Steven Griles, an oil and gas lobbyist who became deputy Interior
> Secretary J., last month became the highest-ranking Bush
> administration official convicted in the Jack Abramoff
> influence-peddling scandal, pleading guilty to obstructing justice by
> lying to a Senate committee about his relationship with the convicted
> lobbyist. Abramoff repeatedly sought Griles' intervention at Interior
> on behalf of Indian tribal clients.
>
> . Former White House aide, David H. Safavian, was convicted last year
> of lying to government investigators about his ties to Abramoff and
> faces a 180-month prison sentence.
>
> . Roger Stillwell, a former Interior Department official, pleaded
> guilty to a misdemeanor charge for not reporting tickets he received
> from Abramoff.
>
> . Sue Ellen Wooldridge, the top Justice Department prosecutor in the
> environmental division until January, bought a $980,000 beach house in
> South Carolina with ConocoPhillips lobbyist Donald R. Duncan and oil
> and gas lobbyist Griles. Soon thereafter, she signed an agreement
> giving the oil company more time to clean up air pollution at some of
> its refineries. Congressional Democrats have denounced the arrangement.
>
> . Matteo Fontana, a Department of Education official who oversaw the
> student loan industry, was put on leave last week after disclosure
> that he owned at least $100,000 worth of stock in a student loan company.
>
> . Claude Allen, who had been Bush's domestic policy adviser, pleaded
> guilty to theft in making phony returns at discount department stores
> while working at the White house. He was sentenced to two years of
> supervised probation and fined $500.
>
> . Philip Cooney, a former American Petroleum Institute lobbyist who
> became chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental
> Quality, acknowledged in congressional testimony earlier this year
> that he changed three government reports to eliminate or downplay
> links between greenhouse gases and global warming. He left in 2005 to
> work for Exxon Mobil Corp.
>
> . Darleen Druyun, a former Air Force procurement officer, served nine
> months in prison in 2005 for violating federal conflict-of-interest
> rules in a deal to lease Boeing refueling tankers for $23 billion,
> despite _Eric Keroack, Bush's choice to oversee the federal family
> planning program, resigned from the post suddenly last month after the
> Massachusetts Medicaid office launched an investigation into his
> private practice. He had been medical director of an organization that
> opposes premarital sex and contraception.
>
> . Lurita Doan, head of the General Services Administration, attended a
> luncheon at the agency earlier this year with other top GSA political
> appointees at which Scott Jennings, a top Rove aide, gave a PowerPoint
> demonstration on how to help Republican candidates in 2008. A
> congressional committee is investigating whether the remarks violated
> a federal law that restricts executive-branch employees from using
> their positions for political purposes.
>
> . Robert W. Cobb, NASA's inspector general is under investigation on
> charges of ignoring safety violations in the space program. An
> internal administration review said he routinely tipped off department
> officials to internal investigations and quashed a report related to
> the Columbia shuttle explosion to avoid embarrassing the agency. He
> remains on the job. Only Bush can fire him.
>
> . Julie MacDonald, who oversees the Fish and Wildlife Service but has
> no academic background in biology, overrode recommendations of agency
> scientists about how to protect endangered species and improperly
> leaked internal information to private groups, the Interior Department
> inspector general said.
>
A rundown of Bush appointees who left under a cloud or face
> conflict-of-interest allegations
>
> _Scooter Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney,
> was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in a grand jury
> investigation into the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame. His
> trial also implicated top political adviser Karl Rove and Cheney in a
> campaign to discredit her husband, Iraq war critic and retired
> ambassador Joe Wilson (news, bio, voting record). Libby, who plans an
> appeal, is awaiting a June 5 sentencing.
>
> . Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is fighting to hold onto his job
> in the face of congressional investigations into his role in the
> firing of eight U.S. attorneys. Two top aides have resigned in the
> investigation into whether the firings were politically motivated.
> Emails and other evidence released by the Justice Deparment suggest
> that Rove played a part in the process. Other e-mails, sent on
> Republican party accounts, either have disappeared or were erased.
>
> . Paul Wolfowitz, president of the World Bank and a former deputy
> defense secretary, acknowledged he helped arrange a large pay raise
> for his female companion when she was transferred to the State
> Department but remained on the bank payroll. The incident intensified
> calls at the bank for his resignation.
>
> . J. Steven Griles, an oil and gas lobbyist who became deputy Interior
> Secretary J., last month became the highest-ranking Bush
> administration official convicted in the Jack Abramoff
> influence-peddling scandal, pleading guilty to obstructing justice by
> lying to a Senate committee about his relationship with the convicted
> lobbyist. Abramoff repeatedly sought Griles' intervention at Interior
> on behalf of Indian tribal clients.
>
> . Former White House aide, David H. Safavian, was convicted last year
> of lying to government investigators about his ties to Abramoff and
> faces a 180-month prison sentence.
>
> . Roger Stillwell, a former Interior Department official, pleaded
> guilty to a misdemeanor charge for not reporting tickets he received
> from Abramoff.
>
> . Sue Ellen Wooldridge, the top Justice Department prosecutor in the
> environmental division until January, bought a $980,000 beach house in
> South Carolina with ConocoPhillips lobbyist Donald R. Duncan and oil
> and gas lobbyist Griles. Soon thereafter, she signed an agreement
> giving the oil company more time to clean up air pollution at some of
> its refineries. Congressional Democrats have denounced the arrangement.
>
> . Matteo Fontana, a Department of Education official who oversaw the
> student loan industry, was put on leave last week after disclosure
> that he owned at least $100,000 worth of stock in a student loan company.
>
> . Claude Allen, who had been Bush's domestic policy adviser, pleaded
> guilty to theft in making phony returns at discount department stores
> while working at the White house. He was sentenced to two years of
> supervised probation and fined $500.
>
> . Philip Cooney, a former American Petroleum Institute lobbyist who
> became chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental
> Quality, acknowledged in congressional testimony earlier this year
> that he changed three government reports to eliminate or downplay
> links between greenhouse gases and global warming. He left in 2005 to
> work for Exxon Mobil Corp.
>
> . Darleen Druyun, a former Air Force procurement officer, served nine
> months in prison in 2005 for violating federal conflict-of-interest
> rules in a deal to lease Boeing refueling tankers for $23 billion,
> despite _Eric Keroack, Bush's choice to oversee the federal family
> planning program, resigned from the post suddenly last month after the
> Massachusetts Medicaid office launched an investigation into his
> private practice. He had been medical director of an organization that
> opposes premarital sex and contraception.
>
> . Lurita Doan, head of the General Services Administration, attended a
> luncheon at the agency earlier this year with other top GSA political
> appointees at which Scott Jennings, a top Rove aide, gave a PowerPoint
> demonstration on how to help Republican candidates in 2008. A
> congressional committee is investigating whether the remarks violated
> a federal law that restricts executive-branch employees from using
> their positions for political purposes.
>
> . Robert W. Cobb, NASA's inspector general is under investigation on
> charges of ignoring safety violations in the space program. An
> internal administration review said he routinely tipped off department
> officials to internal investigations and quashed a report related to
> the Columbia shuttle explosion to avoid embarrassing the agency. He
> remains on the job. Only Bush can fire him.
>
> . Julie MacDonald, who oversees the Fish and Wildlife Service but has
> no academic background in biology, overrode recommendations of agency
> scientists about how to protect endangered species and improperly
> leaked internal information to private groups, the Interior Department
> inspector general said.
>