"President Donald Trump reportedly keeps ripping notes and memos that under the law should be preserved ― and the White House has paid staffers to carefully tape these documents back together.
“We got Scotch tape, the clear kind,” former records management analyst Solomon Lartey told Politico. “You found pieces and taped them back together and then you gave it back to the supervisor.”
Lartey and Reginald Young Jr., another worker who said he taped together Trump-torn documents, were both fired earlier this year.
“I’m looking at my director, and saying, ‘Are you guys serious?’” Young told Politico. “We’re making more than $60,000 a year, we need to be doing far more important things than this. It felt like the lowest form of work you can take on without having to empty the trash cans.”
All documents must be preserved under the Presidential Records Act. However, Trump has a habit of ripping notes, memos and other papers when he’s done with them, Politico reported.
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WASHINGTON ― Former Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas), who still hasn’t repaid $84,000 in taxpayer money he used to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit, is now costing taxpayers even more money.
His new employer, the Calhoun Port Authority in Texas, just hired an attorney to handle a lawsuit challenging Farenthold’s hiring as illegal, the Victoria Advocate reported late last week. The Texas newspaper is suing the port authority, a government entity near Houston, for hiring Farenthold without public notice, which would violate state law.
The port authority board hired a $400-an-hour lawyer to handle the case. Local taxpayers will have to foot the bill.
“It’s not cheap, but a lot of them were higher than that,” one board member, Tony Holladay, told the Victoria Advocate of the lawyer fees.
In addition to these new legal expenses, local taxpayers have to cover the costs of a special election to fill Farenthold’s seat in Congress, which he abruptly resigned in April to prevent House investigators from going public with their findings of sexual harassment in his office. The probe extended beyond the allegations in the lawsuit Farenthold settled, which include him telling a female aide that another female aide could “show her nipples whenever she wanted” and that he had “wet dreams” about her.
“We got Scotch tape, the clear kind,” former records management analyst Solomon Lartey told Politico. “You found pieces and taped them back together and then you gave it back to the supervisor.”
Lartey and Reginald Young Jr., another worker who said he taped together Trump-torn documents, were both fired earlier this year.
“I’m looking at my director, and saying, ‘Are you guys serious?’” Young told Politico. “We’re making more than $60,000 a year, we need to be doing far more important things than this. It felt like the lowest form of work you can take on without having to empty the trash cans.”
All documents must be preserved under the Presidential Records Act. However, Trump has a habit of ripping notes, memos and other papers when he’s done with them, Politico reported.
...and:
WASHINGTON ― Former Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas), who still hasn’t repaid $84,000 in taxpayer money he used to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit, is now costing taxpayers even more money.
His new employer, the Calhoun Port Authority in Texas, just hired an attorney to handle a lawsuit challenging Farenthold’s hiring as illegal, the Victoria Advocate reported late last week. The Texas newspaper is suing the port authority, a government entity near Houston, for hiring Farenthold without public notice, which would violate state law.
The port authority board hired a $400-an-hour lawyer to handle the case. Local taxpayers will have to foot the bill.
“It’s not cheap, but a lot of them were higher than that,” one board member, Tony Holladay, told the Victoria Advocate of the lawyer fees.
In addition to these new legal expenses, local taxpayers have to cover the costs of a special election to fill Farenthold’s seat in Congress, which he abruptly resigned in April to prevent House investigators from going public with their findings of sexual harassment in his office. The probe extended beyond the allegations in the lawsuit Farenthold settled, which include him telling a female aide that another female aide could “show her nipples whenever she wanted” and that he had “wet dreams” about her.
