After a blip in his confirmation for Treasury Secretary, The Senate confirmed Timothy Geithner as the new secretary. Despite some controversy over his failing of paying his taxes for four years, it was not enough to stop his confirmation and Timothy Geithner was overwhelmingly confirmed by the Senate body.
Geithner, the New York Federal Reserve Bank chief, becomes the nation’s 75th treasury secretary and one of the point men President Barack Obama will be counting on to help pull the country out of its worst financial slide in generations.
Obama attended the swearing-in ceremony at the Treasury Department and told his nominee, “You’ve got your work cut out for you.”
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the admitted tax-cheat must be a super genius who can “help” the inexperienced obama do his job. where are the moralists and the ethicists. where is the self-righteous media? it is as though every liberal democrat is convinced that geithner is the only who has the answer among some 250 million americans. what a tragedy!
But they justify that he was a very busy man, in which petty matters like paying correct taxes were relegated to the background or delegated to a lowly accountant.
I wonder if we ordinary mortals can use this same justification when confronted by the IRS about any possible mis-filing of taxes?
BTW, it is common knowledge and some targetted friends swear by it that once your name has been flagged by the IRS, one becomes a regular audit customer of theirs.
Though not publicly admitted one of once prospective NY junior senator Caroline Kennedy’s issues was taxes. But she did do the opposite of a “midnight appointment”.
Wow..what a shocker shocker huh?
Pfff..