Navy’s Second-Ranking Civilian Resigns Amid Criminal Investigation -- Washington Post
An intensifying criminal investigation of an alleged contracting scheme involving a top-secret Navy project has resulted in the forced resignation of the service’s second-ranking civilian leader, according to officials and court documents.
Robert C. Martinage, the acting undersecretary of the Navy, stepped down after his boss, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, asked for his resignation “following a loss of confidence in [his] abilities to effectively perform his duties,” according to a statement the Navy released Wednesday.
Navy officials said Martinage was pressured to quit after investigators looking into his role in the top-secret program discovered that he was having an affair.
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Update #1: Martinage resigns as deputy under secretary of Navy -- Pilot Online
Update #2: Navy’s second-in-command forced to resign amid corruption scandal -- RT
My Comment: The U.S. Air Force is not the only service having problems.
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Contrary to apocalyptic heehaw from the conservatives and neocons over military dismissals under Obama Administration, it is very encouraging to see that quite a few big-wigs have been put on the chopping block over corruption, bribery, war crimes(?), sexual crimes, illegal drug abuse and peddling, sexual nepotism, performance test and appraisal cheating.
Though no one has been fired for financial and accounting fraud in the DoD, Pentagon or the Military Contractors. Should these fired and dishonorable military personnel swing into the revolving doors of the defense contractors or universities then all is lost.
Still, it is disheartening that with all the surveillance information no one from the Wall Street or the K-Street and the military or its defense contractors have been thrown into jail or even convicted for any crimes they have committed that almost every common man on the street or elitist in corner office can attest is rampant in the U.S.
As is the case with DEA, what we have is the law, justice, legal constraints and enforcement are in the service of drug cartels and money laundering so deep that their very existence is dependent on drugs, human and organ trafficking, money laundering and arms smuggling.
All this military firings are cosmetic: Lipstick on macho soldiers in frilly fatigue frocks.
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