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Q: Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Thursday continued to defend his handpicked Chicago Public Schools chief in the face of a searing inspector generalâs report that accuses district CEO Forrest Claypool of engaging in a âfull-blown cover-upâ to ward off an ethics probe.
 Claypool  ârepeatedly liedâ during the investigation by denying  he  had asked an attorney to alter a bill for legal advice on an ethics issue involving the districtâs top attorney  said Inspector General Nicholas Schuler  who has recommended that  Claypool  be fired. âIâm not looking at freaking bills  â Claypool  said in one interview with investigators  according to Schulerâs report.
âAt every turn in this matter   Claypool  kept making matters worse. And it appears that  his  decisions were driven by a clear desire to keep information harmful to  his  narrative from the Board  the OIG and the public â Schuler wrote.
 Claypool  met privately with school board members on Thursday and issued a lengthy statement in which  he  apologized for âmistakes in judgmentâ while defending  his  legacy and making it clear  he  disagrees with Schulerâs interpretation of CPS ethics policy.
âTo put this in perspective: This situation is about how I zealously tried to get Chicago students their fair share of state education dollars  after years and years of racial discrimination  and getting those kids the best possible legal representation â said  Claypool   who canceled a scheduled appearance at a North Side elementary school on Thursday. He did not directly address Schulerâs most damaging allegations.
Claypoolâs alleged cover-up turned an investigation into whether district attorney Ronald Marmer violated CPS ethics policies on contracts and business relationships into a call for  Claypoolâs  termination. Schuler also is recommending that Marmer be disciplined with a âlengthy suspension or even termination.â
Marmer is one of several of  Claypool 's former colleagues and past political donors who have won district jobs and consulting contracts. He has received annual payments of roughly $200 000 as severance from the law firm of Jenner & Block in addition to his CPS salary.
Three attorneys on a CPS ethics committee concluded Marmer couldnât manage the contract because his severance payments created a âbusiness relationshipâ with Jenner.. A fourth CPS attorney  Joseph Moriarty  was told of the committeeâs decision and agreed with it. Moriarty told Schuler that Marmer âbecame concerned by the decision â and was going to speak with  Claypool .
 Claypool  and Marmer then turned to former CPS general counsel Patrick Rocks for another opinion  Schuler said. In a conference call with  Claypool  and two other attorneys  Rocks said he agreed with CPS' legal consensus.
 So Claypool  and Marmer decided to ask labor attorney James Franczek for his take. Franczek also agreed with the previous opinions  which didnât go down well with  Claypool  and Marmer. He later sent an email to Moriarty that said âI think I am off the xmas card list.â
 Claypool  ultimately turned to political donor J. Timothy Eaton  who  according to Schulerâs report  served as a teacherâs assistant for a college course  Claypool  took while Eaton was a law student.
 âClaypool  attempted to paper over the opinions of the six attorneys with Eatonâs letter â Schuler wrote in his report. In addition  after the IGâs investigation had begun  Marmer complained about Franczekâs bill  which had âCPSâs Code of Ethicsâ and âethics issuesâ listed on it.  Claypool  asked Franczek to change the listings. Franczek then crossed out the entries and hand wrote âpersonnelâ and âpersonnel issuesâ in their place  the report says.
Franczek delivered the reworded invoice back to  Claypool  with a cover letter marked âFor Forrest Claypoolâs Eyes Only.â
In interviews with the IG during the investigation   Claypool â unequivocally  emphatically and repeatedlyâ denied  he  had asked Franczek to make changes to the bill  and said â he  would never have been involved in such lowly billing matters.â
But last month  in a letter to Schuler's office   Claypool  apologized for intervening to reword the invoice.  Claypool 's letter acknowledged Schuler had documents that contradicted the CEO's initial claim.
â He  turned 180 degrees from claiming certain memory to no memory at all â Schuler wrote in  his  report. â His  letter was designed to taint the Boardâs reception of the OIGâs final report by falsely portraying lies on two separate occasions as mere lapses of memory.â

A: CPS watchdog says CEO Forrest Claypool ' repeatedly lied' during ethics probe
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Q: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt  will have a soundproof communication booth. (Susan Walsh/AP)
The Environmental Protection Agency is spending nearly $25 000 to construct a secure  soundproof communications booth in the office of  Administrator Scott Pruitt   according to government contracting records.
 Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt  addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference on Feb. 25 in Oxon Hill  Md. (The Washington Post)
In recent months   Pruitt  and  his  top deputies have taken other steps aimed at heightening security. Some EPA employees have been asked to surrender their cellphones and other digital devices before meetings in the administrator’s office  in much the same way visitors do when visiting the president in the Oval Office.
[ Scott Pruitt  says  it ’s not the time to talk climate change. For  him    it  never is.]
 Pruitt  also has shied away from using email at EPA  often preferring to deliver instructions verbally and hold face-to-face meetings. The shift stems in part from public disclosure by the New York Times in 2014 — following an open-records request of emails — of how  Pruitt  and other attorneys general had worked closely with the oil and gas industry to oppose Obama administration environmental safeguards.
Thousands more pages of emails from  his  time as Oklahoma’s attorney general  released earlier this year after the Center for Media and Democracy sued for them to be made public  detailed an often-chummy relationship between  Pruitt ’s office and Devon Energy  a major oil and gas exploration and production company based in Oklahoma City.
In addition   Pruitt  has largely avoided the agency’s decades-long practice of publicly posting the administrator’s appointment calendars. Only last week were details on months worth of meetings released after media outlets filed repeated Freedom of Information Act requests for that information; they showed  he  has met regularly with corporate executives from the automobile  mining and fossil fuel industries — in several instances shortly before making decisions favorable to those interest groups.
Pruitt  who has become a polarizing and high-profile figure as  he  seeks to roll back Obama-era policies and shrink the EPA’s footprint  has essentially tripled the personal security detail that served past administrators. The detail now includes about 18 people to cover round-the-clock needs and  his  frequent travel schedule. Such 24/7 coverage has prompted officials to rotate in special agents from around the country who otherwise would be investigating environmental crimes.

A: EPA spending almost $25 000 to install a secure phone booth for Scott Pruitt
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Q: Now  Momoh  watched as the gem found in from a field not far from  his  tin-roof room home was snapped up for $6 536 360.
Then  Momoh  did something unprecedented:  he  decided to hand it over to the government.  He  figured the money made on selling the stone would be used for public services in a country recently devastated by Ebola and mudslides . For weeks afterwards in Sierra Leone  websites and bars alike in Sierra Leone were abuzz with talk of the giant diamond. “I don't know whether [ he ’s] being honest or naïve ” one poster wrote on Facebook. “But I seriously doubt whether [President Ernest Bai] Koroma will care to share the proceeds with his kitchen cabinet.”
The dealer  a man with years of experience in the murky world of diamond trading  became the first of several who would try to persuade  Momoh  to smuggle the gem on the black market  and rake in tens of thousands of dollars — possibly more — for  himself .  Momoh  considered the proposal.  His  wife and three kids were waiting back home in Koryadu  a village so poor it has no running water  electricity or paved roads  despite literally sitting on diamond fields. .
 Emmanuel Momoh   a tall and soft-spoken pastor from Sierra Leone who had travelled outside  his  country for the first time  was following nervously as some 70 bids came in online and in phone calls. Going under the hammer was a massive gem called the “Peace Diamond ” which was expected to fetch tens of millions of dollars.  Momoh  had briefly been its owner.
After years of struggling to feed  his  family on a paltry income as an evangelical preacher (and selling peanuts as a side business)   Momoh  applied for a mining license in 2012. In Sierra Leone’s diamond-rich eastern region  villagers often pool their money into artisanal mines. Few  though  strike it lucky in the unregulated and often-dangerous informal mines.  Momoh ’s team dredged up a few carats a month  making precious little profits.
The country’s gems were once at the heart of Sierra Leone’s brutal war that ended in 2002.  Momoh  lived through the decade-long conflict waged over who would control mineral-rich fields like the ones where  his  diggers made their lucky find. The stones found there were smuggled across the borders by rebels in exchange for arms and ammunitions. The digging was carried out by an enslaved population under threat of death by the rebels  earning them the dark nickname “blood diamonds” and eventually setting off an international backlash against their sale.
Artisanal mining — mining without heavy equipment — is back breaking work. Using spades  crowbars  and pick axes  diggers sift through several tons of earth to find a single carat of diamonds. The physical labor takes a toll  with miners often suffering hernias  exhaustion and exposure to malaria and parasites by drinking from polluted streams.  Momoh  often paid their medical bills  a drain  he  could barely afford.
By March this year   he ’d told  his  wife  he  was considering letting  his  diggers go. “I told my wife  it’s very difficult to balance between our family needs and those of workers. It’s challenging. You’re looking for something you don’t know if you’ll ever find.”
So when a knock came on his door on the evening of March 13   Momoh  hoped there hadn’t been an accident. Four dust-covered workers walked into  his  living room. One of them  a man called Komba Johnbull  said  he  first needed 800 000 leones — roughly $100 and easily an entire month’s wage. “ He  said  ‘I think something important has happened. But before I tell you  you have to give me 800 000 leones ’”  Momoh  recalled. “I said  ‘what do you mean  what are you talking about?’”
As the manager and financial supporter of the group   Momoh  was the legal owner of anything discovered. But tradition dictates that diggers are entitled to a dash  or stipend  from their financier when they make a significant find. Quickly realizing it must be big news to require such a hefty dash   Momoh  once again scraped together the cash and gave it to  his  worker.
 He  was stunned at the gem that was handed over to  him .
“The reaction was — I mean  everyone was just… ”  he  faltered  trying to summon the words. “Every one of us was very happy. We knew it was special.”
Still  at that point no one in the room realized quite how big a find they had on their hands. Diamonds in Sierra Leone are some of the highest quality in the world  typically so clear and transparent that they’re known as “glasses.” The rock in front of  Momoh  was orange-hued  with tiny red speckles.
 Momoh  decided to take it to a diamond dealer in Kono who was known for paying cash upfront with minimal fuss. Miners are legally allowed to sell smaller diamonds  though larger ones have to be handed over to the government  who then share a fraction of the final sale price with the original owners.
The dealer immediately suggested a different option: without alerting anyone else  they could find a buyer and share the money between themselves. “He said  there’s no need to sell this. If you take this diamond to the government  you will not get anything out of it ”  Momoh  recalled.
The dealer refused to hand back the diamond as he desperately tried to convince  Momoh  to follow his plan. The discussion dragged on for hours. “It was very difficult to remove that diamond from the Lebanese [dealer]. We stayed four or five hours in that office that night  until finally we are able to convince  him  to bring that diamond out.”

A:
A Pastor Found A Massive Diamond. Now He Hopes It Will Help His Country.
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