BREAKING NEWS: White House says a presidential aide has resigned after engaging in improprieties

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Source: MSNBC

BREAKING NEWS: White House says a presidential aide has resigned after engaging in improprieties using USAID grant money

updated 22 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The White House says an aide to President Bush has resigned because of the alleged misuse of grant money from U.S. Agency for International Development.

Presidential spokesman Scott Stanzel says the former aide, Felipe Sixto, had been a special assistant to the president for intergovernmental affairs. Stanzel said Sixto was promoted to that position on March 1 and that he came forward on March 20 to tell his superiors about the alleged wrongdoing.

Stanzel said it involved improprieties involving the use of grant money and Sixto's former employer, the Center for a Free Cuba. Stanzel says the matter has been turned over to the Justice Department.



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