Thread: Local Woman Convicted of Drug Fraud Joins Obama at the Podium

Holy Mother of....
Does this administration not know the meaning of "vetting"????
Did it really never occur to them to find out WHY these two were unemployed???

Man - Obama must be furious.

sounds apt to me.....:rolleyes:

Tax us more if you must, but by all means.........pay the woman, she beez needin sum munny.

he just needeed a white woman, black woman and a guy...

LOL the lady is on VACATION, so they cant get in touch with her for her comment!!! hahaha omfg..

The Charlottesville Newsplex - Video

Originally Posted by CSA

Wonder why she CANT find a job.. with a felony conviction...

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July 28, 2010

(CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA) -- Charlottesville resident Leslie Macko was once employed at ACAC in the Albemarle Square Shopping Center. In April 2009, she lost her job as an aesthetician in the spa at ACAC.

President Barack Obama called on Congress last week to extend unemployment insurance. Macko stood next to the President of the United States as his example of the need to extend jobless benefits.

CBS19's Jessica Jaglois has learned that Macko was found guilty of prescription drug fraud in March 2009, one month before Macko lost her job at ACAC. She served a one year probationary sentence.

Macko joined two other unemployed people and President Obama at the podium for a speech designed to encourage lawmakers to extend jobless benefits.

"We need to extend unemployment compensation benefits for women like Leslie Macko, who lost her job at a fitness center last year, and has been looking for work ever since. Because she's eligible for only a few more weeks of unemployment, she's doing what she never thought she'd have to do. Not at this point, anyway. She's turning to her father for financial support," Obama said in his speech.

ACAC owner Phil Wendel was unable to tell CBS19 if Macko was terminated because of the conviction. There's also no indication from the court file that Macko lost her job because of the court case, or that she has received unemployment benefits improperly.

CBS19 contacted Leslie Macko about the conviction, and she declined to comment until she speaks with her attorney. We have also reached out to the White House to see if they know the full story behind the woman they chose to stand next to President Obama, but have not received comment from them either.

Local Woman Convicted of Drug Fraud Joins Obama at the Podium

She's lucky she got unemployment. Most employers would have fired her rather than laid her off. If indeed that's the case. Being laid off that is.

Arrested for pharma fraud, pleads guilty, convicted...then appears next to the President of the United States as an example of people who should get their unemployment extended...then goes on vacation.
Something seems strange here....

Originally Posted by CSA

he just needeed a white woman, black woman and a guy...

LOL the lady is on VACATION, so they cant get in touch with her for her comment!!! hahaha omfg..

The Charlottesville Newsplex - Video

I should be on unemployment, working hasn't earned me a vacation in over two years..........ann throw in some food stamps too, muh-fuka.

Notice the progressive/liberal/obama lovers are absent from this thread and it will not make the MSM :p

where was whats her face in the wheelchair, she wasn't available? You remember? The house flipper that got caught in the down turn, with the computer degree son living in her car?

Originally Posted by Imperator

where was whats her face in the wheelchair, she wasn't available? You remember? The house flipper that got caught in the down turn, with the computer degree son living in her car?

lol yea forgot about her... she never made the MSM afterthe event either.

A person gets fired because of drugs is allowed to stand by Obama representing the unemployed, and he wants to run our health care system.

Amazing how fast people forget about that woman, whatshername, who made the racist remarks!

Felons sell SO many more newspapers!

Originally Posted by Forplay

A person gets fired because of drugs is allowed to stand by Obama representing the unemployed, and he wants to run our health care system.

To be fair this is not Obama's fault, not directly anyway.
He has some truly horrendous staff members who any day now will bring out Charles Manson to represent the need for more humane inmate treatment.
I doubt there has ever been a Presidential staff that has done such a terrible job vetting people. Almost surreal.