Janet Napolitano’s henchman gets a new university gig after being fired for corruption

By Thomas Lifson December 2, 2017

The rot in higher education is spreading, thanks to solidarity among former sisters in the Obama Cabinet, both of whom have landed cushy, high-paying jobs as university presidents. Seth Grossman used to be the chief-of-staff for Janet Napolitano, staying with her when she moved from Secretary of Homeland Security to president of the University of California system. In that position, he became a fall guy, after getting fired for corrupting a state audit of the various campuses of that sprawling public university.

I have written about that corruption several times, but will here cite the explanation offered two days ago by Dan Walter, the Sacramento Bee columnist, widely regarded as the premier journalist covering California state government. Let’s say you are the CEO of a Fortune 500 company that’s under scrutiny by the Securities and Exchange Commission for accounting irregularities. And let’s say that when the SEC’s investigators sought information from other executives at your company, you insisted that their responses be funneled through your office and altered to reflect more favorably on your leadership.

Finally, let’s say that your manipulations were exposed. You probably would be fired by your board of directors for exposing the company to legal penalties and quite possibly prosecuted for interfering in an official investigation........To Read More....