Let me guess, the guy's a Republican......

Doesn't matter if he's repub or dem, he's corrupt. Arrest, try, and jail them all, starting at the top.

You're not gonna get any arugument on me out of that one. I, personally, am done with self-serving losers running my, OUR, country for their own personal desires and psychotic ideologies. Maybe its time for a few public hangings. Heck, I figure if they can destroy the 4th Amendment then the 8th Amendment is also up for grabs....

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This guy is typical of so many government employees. He was appointed by President Clinton. Waxman who has been demanding President Bush be impeached should spend more time checking out people he praises.

I work for a social services organization and we struggle to provide basic services for the elderly such as nutrition, transportation, housing and medical assistance. This kind of story sickens me. How well this waste to serve our communities and their residents.

If these allegations are true, this man should be placed under a federal prison for his crimes. The worst of his sins, violating the public trust.

Additionally, those who knowingly benefitted from his crimes should also be made to pay... it's the same as receiving stolen goods. IMHO.

I work for a social services organization and we struggle daily to provide basic services for the elderly such as nutrition, transportation, housing and medical assistance. This kind of story sickens me. How well this waste could serve our communities and our most vulnerable and frail residents.

Let's not hang,imprision,or pre-judge until the jury is presented with the evidence of wrong-doing. The media does not always write the whole story.Should this man be gulty make him serve his time. When a former president [a Democratt] can escape prison for lying under oath anything can happen in our justice system.

Why does Clinton always get brought up? That is so freaking laughable. It is like Clinton is the ONLY person who ever did anything. I suppose Bush's lying is different - why? Is it because he lies under the name of god? This man should be tried and, if convicted, be punished - as should be any person who engages in this type of behavior. As far as the comment that most government employees are like this...that is bullcrock. I am a 26 year government employee and I am not like that nor are the hundreds of people I work with. True power can corrupt - very few of us have that type of authority. He is sort of the federal government's version of ENRON or WorldCom execs...just on a beer budget.

GOP - Greed Over Principle

There is a large element of the Republican party that are guilty of racketeering. The Bush crime family and Cheney sit a the top of the pyramid.

If the allegatons against Johnnie Frazier are true, I think we better start looking at what has been going on at the Dept of Commerce because Frazier probably wasn't doing his job.

Rep. John Doolittle's wife, Julia, was listed as the business contact for Tech Travelers. The officers of Tech Travelers have ties to a company that got a piece of a Dept of Commerce $8 billion dollar contract for computer services.

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A man of representation that's as reckless and dishonest as Johnnie Frasier, the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Commerce, should be hung for treason. We need to handle our internal vermon the way we would anyone from the outside world. This man is so reckless he should be stripped of his life's earnings, holdings, social security, and thrown into a tiny cell until he is hung.

What's sad about this story is this:

As opposed to the corrupted souls who have been appointed by the GOP to replace ousted career professionals in agencies throughout what's left of our government, this IS a career professional. But the Dark Side is just too strong. How many other professionals who haven't been forced out have "gone Republican" like this guy? It may take a decade to fix the extreme damage this crowd has visited upon our federal structure.

I agree with F. Chittock. Lets not condemn this man yet. After all, we have a serving president who is lying to us on us on a daily basis and he is still in office......

Joe,

"This guy is typical of so many government employees"? The vast majority of us work at our jobs, and we do them awfully well when you consider the conditions we work under (inadequate support, a public that sees a story such as this and blames us all) and the pay we receive, which isn't anywhere near what the Top Dogs are making. Right now I make about $38k per year; if I went out into the private sector and did the same work the pay would be slightly more than twice that. So why do I, and countless others, stay? We believe in this country, and we believe that the work we do has benefit for the country and it people. When that is no longer the case we probably WILL leave, and then the only ones left will be the crooks that continually give us all a bad name.

Please don't tar all government employees with this brush. Every organization has its bad apples - remember Enron?

Fooled me, I thought the picture was Rep.Jefferson, and since they look so much alike, you sure this guy did not have the 90000 on ice?

I'm so disgusted.

Ms Pantstreppon-I am to the point that if I see your name on a comment I read it first. You are always so informative. Your research skills are huge, incisive and very to the point. How do you keep up with it all? Anyway, I read your comments at many of my favorite places and I just wanted to thank you.

... Well, at least this traitor should be easy enough to rid ourselves of. If he had anything whatsoever to do with Clinton, the Republicans no doubt will jump at the chance to expose his malfeasance --- as one of Bill's nefarious nominations that was originally hailed by Congressional Democrats.

Well now that most of you have killed this person even before he gets to trial, what the hell do we need the court systems? Now, don’t get me wrong I’m not supporting this guy, but what happened to “innocent UNTIL proven guilty”?????????? What happen to lets ‘see all the facts’ to make a conclusion? It seems it only apply to non- Republicans! And yes, there is a double standard today in our country’s political beliefs. I see it the voices on the web and in the news media. Even George Tenet stated in his newly released book, Iraq according to their information HAD WMD’S before we went to war! So sad so many people jump to conclusions without ALL the facts!

I wonder what the out cry would be like here if Sandy Berger had worked for Bush instead of Clinton and did what he did with stealing 'what could have been' very IMPORTANT National material? I do wonder what the out cry would be here and on other sites like this? I wonder!

Being an anti-fraud official, he probably figured his office would be the last place they'd be looking for fraud. Is it my immagination....or is all this corruption getting worse?

It is fraudulent for an anti-fraud official to be involved in fraudulent activity. But I like the syntax nonetheless.

I worked for the U.S Government and few of my co-workers were currupt. Unfortunately, the one's who were, were the ones who controlled the purse and also the ones who had the power to fire the rank and file if they learned any of us were liable to blow the whistle. We had morgages and kids and couldn't afford to lose our jobs, especially when we knew no one would ever hire a whistle blower.

That's why so much of our tax money gets stolen. If we could just spend half of the amount that's stolen on insulated, protected auditors who are paid enough so they are not tempted to join the thieves, we could at least be sure the other half of the money would be available for what it was meant to do. These auditors should be an elite corp answerable only to Congressional committees staffed with equal numbers of Democratic, Republicans, and independants. But I guess that would be too logical and full proof and, of course, lobbyists would refuse to allow THEIR representatives in Congress to go along with it.

Take it from me, an actual insider (now retired), the DOC IG office has been morally backrupt for decades.

Johnnie's predecessor, Frank DeGeorge, pleaded guilty in 1998
to criminal conflict of interest because of jobhunting activities with a major gov't contractor. That was probably the least of Frank's moral lapses. Like a true Republican bueracrat, he thought rules/laws were for other people.

Back when Johnnie was merely a manager, he was notorious for arranging audits in shopping paradises like NYC, where he mysteriously disappeared during the day while his auditors did the actual work.

As another former DOC-IG employee for many years, I totally agree with my fellow former colleague. It became so depressing working there that after many years I finally moved on. The culture was to promote people that you like rather than on experience and merit. I am so glad that this investigation is underway, I hope it really shakes things up. I also applaud the courage of those current and former employees that have turned Johnnie in.