Former pro basketball star and current mayor of Sacramento Kevin Johnson was fingered by former  inspector general for the Corporation for National and Community Service, (the parent body of Americorps) Gerald Walpin for mis-using almost a million dollars in government funds.When the prosecutor refused to indict him, Walpin tried to get the board to take action. Instead, the White House fired him - a violation of the law that has never been addressed by the Obama administration despite requests for documentation from Republicans in the senate.Now, Johnson is being honored by that same organization:Only in the Obama administration would a public official sanctioned for a form of malfeasance be honored as a speaker by the same organization that sanctioned him. It helps, of course, when he is a self-proclaimed Friend of the First Couple. It also doesn't hurt that the administration already found it politically convenient to fire the inspector general, Gerald Walpin, who blew the...(Read Full Post)