Congress' watchdog agency says a federal agency is legally bound to make two political appointees repay some of their salaries for allegedly obstructing a House probe, The Daily Caller reports.
The Government Accountability Office determined Tuesday the Department of Housing and Urban Development's associate general counsel and a deputy assistant secretary refused to let a lower level HUD staffer speak before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform about a 2012 scandal.
GAO noted federal law bars the use of taxpayer dollars to pay executive branch officials to obstruct Congress — and that unless the two give back taxpayers some of their salaries, HUD would be knowingly retaining "improper payments" on its books.
The House oversight panel, then led by California GOP Rep. Darrell Issa, was looking into former Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez's alleged secret deal over a potentially damaging lawsuit, The Daily Caller reports.
Perez reportedly told the litigant in exchange for dropping the suit, the government would look the other way on fraud in an unrelated matter that was being investigated by HUD, The Daily Caller reports.
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I don't know about the statute of limitations in these cases, but some people need to go to jail in this administration.
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