20090728@1912 - IG-GATE UPDATE

I've just added the following links:

Robert Stacy McCain:
http://ig-gate.blogspot.com/2009/07/200907281624-ig-gate-update-no-doubt.html
http://ig-gate.blogspot.com/2009/07/200907281636-walpin-wonders-aboput.html

Rep. Matsui / Mayor Kevin Johnson:
http://ig-gate.blogspot.com/2009/03/200903240835-mayor-sac-stimulus-money.html
http://ig-gate.blogspot.com/2009/03/200903261619-city-to-notify-feds-about.html
http://ig-gate.blogspot.com/2009/03/200903281724-johnson-seeks-matsuis-help.html

Eric Hogue [Hogue News]:
http://ig-gate.blogspot.com/2009/01/200901010030-audio-interviews-conducted.html

Judicial Watch vs. Treasury Dept. [documents]:
http://ig-gate.blogspot.com/2009/01/200901010031-documents-judicial-watch-v.html

From the first Stacy McCain posting listed above:

Readership of The American Spectator includes former AmeriCorp inspector general Gerald Walpin, who was fired last month on orders from President Obama. In a telephone interview today, Walpin said he noticed last week's report that Rep. Doris Matsui (D-Calif.) had contacted White House officials in March, publicly vowing that sanctions against Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson didn't prevent the city from getting its share of bailout cash.

Questions about what role Matsui may have played in Walpin's dismissal are being asked on Capitol Hill, and the ex-IG himself is curious about the Sacramento congresswoman's intervention, which drew attention after it was highlighted by California blogger Eric Hogue.

On the larger question -- whether political pressure over his investigation of Mayor Johnson's St. HOPE Academy was a factor in the June 10 quit-or-be-fired ultimatum from the White House -- Walpin is certain.

"I have no doubt about that," Walpin said.