ABC News: Lazaroff under investigation......

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ABC News website:
 "High Flying Officials"
... Inspection Service, Alexander Lazaroff, was spotted gambling at a casino ... he arranged. Lazaroff is under internal investigation following ... to resorts. Lazaroff initially told ABC News that he did not remember ... (This webpage has been pulled.)
Oct. 9, 2008

  This was on ABC News this morning (10/17/08). According to ABC News, he is under FBI investigation for "abuse of office".

 
  After doing more internet searching, I found that this was on "Nightline" (10/16/08)

 Titled:        
 "Losing Gamble"

  As head of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Alexander Lazaroff oversaw a $464 million budget and 1,700 federal agents who investigate criminal activity in the mail system. But Lazaroff recently retired after questions were raised about whether his frequent travel and a taste for gambling had gotten in the way of his ability to lead. ABC News Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross confronts Lazaroff about a recent business trip to Arizona where undercover cameras captured him spending two hours at a casino video poker machine in the evening. The only problem? Lazaroff can't seem to remember going to the casino that night -- until we show him our pictures. It's a confrontation you can't miss.
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THESE ASSININE FREAKS NICKLE AND DIME US TO DEATH BUT CAN'T POLICE THEIR OWN UPPER LEVEL AND LOWER LEVEL MANAGERS.  THIS ASS ARRANGED AN EXPENSIVE RETREAT/CONFERENCE AT A RESORT AND WAS USING A LIMO!!!  IT MUST GO DEEPER IF THIS SCUM RETIRED.  

WE NEED TO START A DISTRICT/AREA REPORTING SYSTEM, WHEREBY WE CAN REPORT OUR LOCAL MANAGERS WHO ARE MILKING THE SYSTEM AND PRODUCING NOTHING BUT GRIEVANCES.  MY OFFICE IS DOWN TO A SKELETON CREW OF CLERKS, HAD A SATELLITE OFFICE CLOSED, VOLUME IS WAY DOWN, YET WE STILL HAVE THE SAME TWO DO NOTHING SUPERVISORS THAT WE HAD IN THE HEYDAY 80'S AND 90'S.  THESE FREAKS ACTUALLY CALL IN A CUTE LITTLE 204B WHEN ONE OF THEM IS OFF AND THEY ALL LITERALLY DO NOTHING.

WE COULD SEND IT TO THE AREA OFFICE AND LET THEM KNOW WE ARE FORWARDING IT TO WASHINGTON POSTAL OFFICIALS AND TELL THE WASHINGTON POSTAL OFFICIALS THAT WE ARE FORWARDING IT TO CONGRESS.

WE COULD PESTER AND PESTER

IT MAKES ME WANT TO SWEAR AND I'M NOT A SWEARING PERSON.  THESE BASTARDS PIVOT THE CITY CARRIERS AND PENNYPINCH ME DURING RURAL COUNTS BUT WASTE 120,000 A YEAR ON SUPERVISORS THAT ARE NOT NEEDED.
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we need a fearless union rep from each district willing to set up an email account where we can deposit information regarding management waste and wasteful practices.  the information should have the offenders names and where they work.  once a month it should be forwarded to the district upper managment with notice it is being also sent to washington postal officials and the local congressmen.  
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Here is an excerpt from an ABC article:

Postal Service officials were reportedly taken aback at his failure to recall the evening of gambling and a short time later agents of the Inspector General's office contacted ABC News for further information.


Senator Grassley had initially asked for the Inspector General's investigation following a series of anonymous letters and whistleblower complaints to his office.


"He lives in Philadelphia, works in Washington and he's never moved," said Grassley. "Quite frankly, how can he do his job as postal inspector and the administrator he is, when he's never in the office?"


Grassley said there have been a number of new allegations referred to the Inspector General by employees who felt free to act once they knew Lazaroff was leaving.

READ WHAT SENATOR GRASSLEY SAID.  HE'S ON TO THEM.  

DO YOU WANT TO HELP SAVE THE POSTAL SERVICE SOME REAL MONEY?  WANT TO SAVE YOUR JOB?  BLOW THE WHISTLE ON WHAT YOUR LOCAL MANAGERS ARE OR AREN'T DOING.  CAN YOU IMAGINE IF SENATOR GRASSLEY STARTED GETTING REPORTS FROM AROUND THE NATION.?   WHAT IF UNION LEADERS STARTED ASKING HIM, "WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT THIS"?  WHY AREN'T YOU INVESTIGATING THIS".
General Butt Naked

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Do you folks think he may have been setup and sacked by his own Postmaster General  - Jack Potter, a few crooked Postal Inspectors, and the new fraud of a Chief Postal Inspector Appointee - William R. Gilligan?  

Sure looks like an a-typical setup and orchestration by Postal Headquarters/Washington DC that is all too common under the current regime to stop somebody whom is interfering with their self-enriching embezzlement activities, acts of public corruption, contract for kickbacks scandals, etc.

Perhaps Lazaroff was preparing to turn Federal Evidence on Jack Potter, Potter needed him gone quickly, and so he could bring in Gilligan to cover up the tracks!  They did a quick setup over minor ethics violations (playing poker and slots, big f'n deal as it's ok to be human right?), sacked him, and discredited his reputation in a final failed effort to conceal Organized Crime and Racketeering at and leading to the "highest level" of leadership echelons in the United States Postal Service.

Why do you really think the Board Governors retained famed Racketeering in Organized Crime Expert Abbe D. Lowell to investigate the Postmaster General. It sure wasn't over a 1-point home mortgage credit on a 300,000 +/- loan as they claim to the news media. The next Postal Service Headquarters/Washington DC orchestrated setup and sacking will be over a minor driving infraction such as driving 45 MPH in 30 MPH speed zone with ABC news investigating.  Give me a break.  Low echelon Public Sector Postal Workers and Private Sector Postal Workers have known for a very longtime what really goes on at Postal Headquarters, don’t trust them, and is nice to see that the Board of Governors are finally adopting the views of the everyday common people.  

Corrupt Washington DC Postal Officials are the same a-holes whom "steal" the 80% public approval ratings from hard working rural mail handlers and letter carriers like yourselves and wrongfully claim it for themselves so never say never.  Everybody in the Postal Service across the nation from inner city distribution clerks to the one person rural Post Offices know that Postal Headquarters/Washington DC with a few exceptions is packed down with frauds, phonies, and crooks.

It would serve those a-holes at Postal Headquarters right if the FBI would show up at LaEnfant Plaza as their next destination just like the Illinois Governor’s Mansion only this time with a Bus, 30 sets of Handcuffs, 30 sets of Ankle Bracelets, and CNN, CBS, NBC, riding convoy.

The American Public has a Constitutional Right to Know, Hard Working Postal Worker's across America deserve to cheer and have their "80% Approval Rating Back" that was wrongfully taken and claimed by Corrupt Washington DC Postal Officials as their own, and those people whom were victimized by criminal orchestrations master minded by Corrupt Washington DC Postal Officials deserve to have their reputation, livelihoods, and Right to an American Life restored.  

God Bless All,

The General B.
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Interesting theory!
To err is human...to blame it on someone else shows management potential!
harry beamish

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Have any of you self-righteous assholes posting agsinst Mr. Lazaroff ever been to a casino? I have and 2 hours on a video poker machine does NOT make a high roller out of you. 2 hours on the machine is enough to make, lose, and make a few bucks you've planned for. This was his time, after work hours, and I wonder how many of you have ever been to a bar after work for a couple of drinks? ?Are you then some alkie-bum with no sense of responsibility? By the way, have any of your looked at the history of this man? He is not the top cop for nothing! He helped prevent crime for the best part of his life and retired so he wouldn't bring any shame or embarrasment to the postal service. Wasted money? It takes money to fuel the evil in this country and it takes even more money to prevent it, intercede in it, or catch those who participate in it. So, unlike you all, I looked up Mr. Lazaroff everywhere on the net and found only this ONE, SINGLE incident of gambling for small stakes, like I've done several times, and no incident of wrong doing with female operatives under his control. You will all be red faced and GUILTY of character assissination when the investigation is done. I know this man and he is hard working, well versed in what to do and not do, and how to run his office. He is often away because he oversees missions to stop crime in its tracks and that takes money. Why fly 1st class? Ever spend time in the mud? I mean this literally, and if so wouldn't you fly 1st class home? Dumb asses!
Harry Beamish
Voice for Less Careless Talk

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You can offer your opinion for free and w/o worry of censure...except by Harry....!
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This self-righteous asshole does not believe that just because you are the "top cop" that you are above the law.  I feel certain that the FBI, also full of hard working people, does not conduct an investigation willy-nilly on a couple of hours of video poker.  Prisons have their fair share of law enforcement officers who felt they were above the law.  If he is innocent, the evidence will bear that out, if he is guilty then the evidence will bear that out.  

Your ad hominem attack Mr. Beamish, belies the weakness of your emotional and irrational argument.
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i missed it..whos faulting a man for a beer and some poker?
To err is human...to blame it on someone else shows management potential!
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must we resort to cussing on this web site. come on people we can express our feelings in other means.
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Who cussed?? I didnt...lmao...
To err is human...to blame it on someone else shows management potential!
Underdog

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If you're a rural carrier and you don't vent by cussing  YOUR HEAD WILL EXPLODE!!!!
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I SECOND YOUR SUGGESTIONS!!!!!!!!!
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The real story is he turned out to be an asshole to his subordinates, a piss-poor manager, a wilfully uniformed decision maker, and a kiss-ass to his supervisors.  Chief Insp Al was dimantling the USPIS against the advice of many long term senior manager inspectors.  He would not listen to reason and did whatever he wanted as long as it did not make waves above him.  If any of the top people around his diagreed he 'transferred" them to do nothing jobs and/or hardship locations.  So inspectors started "dropping dimes".  Anon reports to the IG and Cong. about 1) expensive sites for meetings, 2) travel arranged to meet his return to his residence in Philly, 3) business meetings called in the Philly area to accomodate his personal schedule, 4) side trips for gambling, 5) some suspect, if not criminal, travel voucher entries re why he had to stay in certain cities, 6) extensive claims for lodging in DC, 7) unreported perks for hotels and airline travel; and more.   He hadn't learned not to piss off his underlings.  So the underlings took him down.  Don't feel sorry for Al.  He gouged the golden goose for many years and is laughing his way to the bank every month.

Al is just one in a long list of truly incompetent Chief Postal Inspectors.  Don't get me started on Ken Hunter, Chuck Clauson, ...
FED UP

POSTAL SPENDING

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Im a clerk in a small office
I am SO FED UP with postal spending abuse.
Everyday at 7:30 am we get a second truck dropping off more mail that didn't make it on the first trip. This truck is a Semi (large gas guzzling truck) that is empty. except for the 3 to 10 letters it has for us.
IT'S 90 MILES ROUND TRIP !!! Doesnt anyone at the top see this wastful spending???
But then they expect us to sell more bubble wrap at the window to make up for their losses..

FED UP
IN NORTHERN ILLINOIS
 
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   One of the big boys got a $10.00 worth of incentive money, and it cost the PO hundreds for him to get it!!   We are managed by greedy fools, who think all are overpaid but them!