WHAT? The Environmental Protection Agency Gave Paid Leave To CHILD SEX OFFENDERS

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It seems the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) isn’t really in the business of protecting the environment.

They’re more in the business of protecting child sex offenders.

The Washington Free Beacon has an exclusive report:

Drug and child sex offenders received paid administrative leave from the Environmental Protection Agency, according to a new audit.

The agency’s inspector general found the EPA rehired a child sex offender after they were put on leave for violating probation, in one example of misuse of administrative leave that cost taxpayers over $1 million.

“Our analysis shows that the EPA’s use of administrative leave appears disproportionate when compared to U.S. Office of Personnel Management guidance related to unacceptable performance and misconduct,” the inspector general said in the audit, released Monday. “According to Office of Personnel Management guidance, administrative leave should generally be limited to situations involving brief absences and not be used for an extended period of time. The cases reviewed involved administrative leave of 4 months or more for all but one of the employees included in the audit.”

“We do not consider 4 months or more to be a brief absence,” they said.

The audit examined eight employees who received extended amounts of paid leave since 2010, who were first identified by a Government Accountability Office investigation last year.

One employee, who confessed to “knowingly and intentionally engaging in sexual contact with a child younger than 17 years” in the 1990s, received paid administrative leave after they were arrested for a probation violation in August 2013.

Can we abolish the EPA once and for all?

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