DC: A federal board tasked with investigating chemical accidents is “hemorrhaging” taxpayer money on a years-long personnel case that has not yet gone to trial, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).
PEER attorneys are representing Daniel Horowitz, former managing director of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), in a legal challenge against the agency for firing Horowitz.
Members of the CSB are scheduled to attend a closed-door meeting Tuesday to discuss a “legal services support contract” worth $300,000. The new contract would be with the law firm Shaw, Bransford & Roth and be worth nearly double a 2015 retainer with the law firm worth $157,000, according to PEER.
“This law firm has found a cash cow in this tiny troubled agency,” PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch said in a statement. “For an agency charged with responding to chemical disasters to divert its limited resources for legal expenses in a needless personnel dispute shows how badly misplaced its current priorities are.”
Former CSB Chair Vanessa Sutherland placed Horowitz on paid administrative leave in June 2015. Horowitz continued to receive his full salary of $161,000 a year while his case remained in limbo for three years. Sutherland fired Horowitz on June 22, 2018, a day before Sutherland left office herself. more here
obama did a great job
fucking us in the ass
Vanessa Sutherland looks just like what I expected. Dems love to lead with their black women, because they know GOP white guys would rather have a hot poker shoved up their ass than confront a black woman on anything. Rick Scott, Jeb! and Rubio are all looking desperately around Florida for red hot steel, rather than fire or arrest Brenda Snipes. At least Brian Kemp is standing up to Tank Abrams for now, but I don’t know how long he can last before he looks for the smithy.
These are some of the “jobs” Obama created.