I ran across this earlier and asked people to fire up their search engines, then I did fire up mine. Guess what I found.
Frank Figueroa, who was head of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Central and North Florida when he was arrested last year, pleaded guilty this morning in Orange County courthouse to exposure of sexual organs and disorderly conduct,
So I found this on Debbie Schlussels site http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2006/02/homeland_securi_1.html
Federal officials knew all along about a top law enforcement official's arrest on a sex crime against the underaged and, yet, promoted him every step of the way--even to the leadership of a federal law enforcement agency's child sex crime enforcement program. Worse, Homeland Security officials may have LIED about it to a U.S. Senator investigating the episode.
I don't know WTF is going on but it gets worse. They knew and did nothing. These are the people charged with our freaking protection ya know ? More from Debbie :
Fig was recently head of ICE's national sex crime "Predator" program. All along, ICE and Homeland Security officials have been claiming they never knew about Figueroa's 1977 arrest on a similar charge near Buffalo.
But, yesterday, reliable sources in the know told us that, in fact, ICE and then-Customs knew all along about Frank Figueroa's prior sex crime arrest. They say that Figueroa declared the arrest on various federal forms and applications required from federal agents for background checks and security clearance renewal. They say ICE and then-Customs officials knew all along of Frank Figueroa's record, but promoted him anyway, including to the national directorship of "Operation Predator" and Special Agent in Charge in Tampa. (This helps educate us as to why another Special Agent in Charge remains on the job despite, among many other egregious episodes, his deep relationship with a "former" Islamic terrorist who openly supports homicide bombers.)
As the Dad of a victim to this kind of crap, I'm fucking livid. Then I think about the Crony Bush put in place, ICE Princess Julie L. Myers, Assistant Homeland Security Secretary, I really start to twist off into rage. This crap has got to stop. Orlando Link http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_local_orlandocrime/2006/04/customs_chief_p.html