More Stimulus Fraud

From the Charleston Gazette Mail: The 25-year-old son of West Virginia homeland security director Jimmy Gianato is being paid through a $126.3 million federal stimulus grant that Gianato oversees. In October, Adam Gianato secured a $60-per-hour job as a contract employee with an engineering firm that's helping the state build 12 "microwave" emergency communications towers across West Virginia. The state used the federal stimulus to pay Gianato's salary and overtime -- a total of $73,000 over four and a half months. Jimmy Gianato serves as the stimulus project's chief "grant administrator."
In mid-February, Adam Gianato landed a full-time job as a state employee assigned to inspect the wireless towers, his $37,500 salary to be paid entirely by the stimulus. He works from his home in McDowell County.
Adam Gianato also drove rental trucks paid for by the federal grant from his home in Kimball to tower sites in Southern West Virginia, and the stimulus picked up Gianato's travel expenses -- meals, hotels, gas and other miscellaneous charges on his personal credit card.
Jimmy Gianato heads West Virginia's three-member federal "grant implementation team," which oversees a $126.3 million project designed to expand high-speed Internet in West Virginia. Gianato has the final say on the use of the stimulus funds, including hiring and spending decisions.
The federal grant's rules include a code of conduct that states, "No employee, officer or agent of the [grant] recipient may participate in the selection, award or administration of a contract . . . supported by federal funds if a real or apparent conflict of interest exists."  http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201209010139
This family must have gone to the Harry Reid School Of Nepotism.
This shows once again that the stimulus brought to by the Democrats and RINO Republicans was just an excuse to pay off friends, unions and other people who took advantage of the program.