ANOTHER IRS big shot pleads the 5th.

[powderman]

Senior IRS manager invokes Fifth  Amendment right before House committeeBy Doug McKelwayPublished June 26, 2013FoxNews.com

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For the second time in as many months, a senior IRS manager on Wednesday  invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination, fueling  perceptions of an agency in  crisis.
Greg Roseman, a Deputy IRS Director, spearheaded the awarding of the  IRS's  largest contract in history to a company owned by a close friend of  his, an action that is prohibited under government contracting regulations.
The company is Strong Castle, Inc., owned by Braulio Castillo. Castillo  won several contracts totaling almost $500 million for IRS IT services in part  on the basis of his friendship  with Roseman and by qualifying for two  minority programs that allow disadvantaged applicants a better chance of winning  lucrative government contracts.
Castillo qualified for one minority set-aside program by setting up his  business in a disadvantaged area of northeast Washington D.C. The Small Business  Administration program requires applicants to hire from within the economically  disadvantaged community, but a House Oversight Committee report found that  Castillo manipulated that requirement by hiring students from Catholic  University. The school’s campus lies within the designated boundary, but its  students are, on balance, far from disadvantaged.
He won entrance into another minority set-aside program run by the Veterans  Administration that gives disabled vets certain advantages in federal  contracting. His disability? An ankle twisted during football at the US Military  Academy Prep School 27 years ago.
That prompted  a sarcastic reaction at Wednesday’s House Oversight  Committee hearing from a double amputee, Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq  war vet. "I'm so glad that you would be willing to play football in prep school  again to protect this great country. Shame on you, Mr. Castillo, shame on you,"  she said.
As evidence of their close friendship, the committee published text messages  between  Roseman and Castillo. The two men apparently found kinship in  using homophobic slurs. One exchange reads, "Paging Dr. Faggot."   The response reads, "Queerbait. How come u haven't called back? Ain't got  all day. Lol."
Roseman is still employed by the IRS. That fact prompted a testy exchange  between Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., and Beth Tucker, the IRS's Deputy  Commissioner for Operations Support.
"Can you issue a statement by five o'clock today as to how someone who used  this language in their official capacity as a government employee is still  employed and drawing a paycheck?" Gowdy asked. "We are having discussions with  our general counsel," Tucker responded.
On Friday, there will be more IRS focus on the Hill. The committee will vote  whether it believes Lois Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment rights against  self-incrimination when she invoked that right, then abruptly proclaimed  her innocence. It was a maneuver that some on the panel say amounted to waiving  the right.

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[garbhead]

Is the 5th Amendment any less important than any of the others?  The assumption is that when you plead the 5th you are guilty. They may be guilty, but proof is required.

[powderman]

Is the 5th Amendment any less important than any of the others?  The assumption is that when you plead the 5th you are guilty. They may be guilty, but proof is required.

 
Sounds like a self admission of guilt to me. POWDERMAN. 

[LaOtto222]

Is the 5th Amendment any less important than any of the others?  The assumption is that when you plead the 5th you are guilty. They may be guilty, but proof is required.

True, Innocent until proven guilty. BUT if you have nothing to hide (innocent) how can you incriminate yourself?

Good Luck and Good Shooting

[Anna]

Is it just me or are those some really ugly looking people in that picture?

[Cuts Crooked]

True, Innocent until proven guilty. BUT if you have nothing to hide (innocent) how can you incriminate yourself?

Good Luck and Good Shooting

Very easily! If the "prosecutor" has decided that you are guilty every thing you have said can be twisted to seem to have a different meaning. And rest assured, there are more than few people who have ended up in prison because their mouth put them there!...the innocent often end up taking a plea deal because they run out of resources to fight it out in court...when if they had just kept their mouth shut in the first place they would never have been charged with anything.

[Anna]

They should be convicted on ugliness alone! No wonder they were blowing our money on party's
and prostitutes. How else would anyone have anything to do with fuggly as bad as this.

[powderman]

Is it just me or are those some really ugly looking people in that picture?

 
ANNA. Uhhhhh, they're democrats. POWDERMAN. 

[Anna]

Is it just me or are those some really ugly looking people in that picture?

 
ANNA. Uhhhhh, they're democrats. POWDERMAN. 

Oh, then that explains it all the evil and the hate just shines right on through.
What is the old saying that beauty is only skin deep, but ugliness goes clean to the bone!
But with these guys even the ugly took a U turn. 

[garbhead]

Is it just me or are those some really ugly looking people in that picture?

 
ANNA. Uhhhhh, they're democrats. POWDERMAN. 

The Amazing Powderman is not only in charge of identifying true Christians , now he can even tell someone's political affiliation just by looking at them.....

[Anna]

Is it just me or are those some really ugly looking people in that picture?

 
ANNA. Uhhhhh, they're democrats. POWDERMAN. 

The Amazing Powderman is not only in charge of identifying true Christians , now he can even tell someone's political affiliation just by looking at them.....

LOL, like that's a hard thing to do. Democrats always look like someone twisted thier genitals up in
a vise and they are hiding something. Or ginning ear to ear while stealing other people's money
while making money for themselves doing it. But Dems are for the working man!
Yea so they can tax him into slavery then give it all away to bums.
Yup it ain't hard to spot a Democrat, and they are always some ugly Mo Foos.

[two-blocked]

Read the article. Rosie and Castillio were cracking gay jokes. Sounds like typical latent homosexual republicans to me.

[Anna]

Read the article. Rosie and Castillio were cracking gay jokes. Sounds like typical latent homosexual republicans to me.

Yup I can see that. Some of the women involved in this ordeal are some fairly handsome men.

[Dixie Dude]

Yes, have you also noticed the women on Fox news are much prettier than on other news channels.  Guys are more clean cut and hansome also.  Dems are the most jealous people I have ever met.  They want what the republican business owners, self employed, self made, hard working people have.  Not willing to work for it themselves.  Dropouts, welfare queens, gang bangers, union hard liners, thugs, and liberal elitists.  My BIL is a professor who makes about $70,000 a year as an organic chemistry professor.  When he finished college, he was offered 6 figures by one of the big chemical companies.  He wanted to teach and do research.  A private job would have given him far more money.  He is now 62, and I am approaching 60 and make abouth as much as him without a masters or PHD.  I also have more in my retirement saved than him.  Just saying.  He and his wife have never worked in the private sector and had to produce results.  Not even a hamburger flipping job.  Both were smart and had scholorships to college, ivy league.  So the extreme poor, low information, uneducated and the professors who don't understand the real world vote democrat.  There are also too many rinos in the republican party.  We need more TEA party folks, enough is enough.