Trust This Man?

How perfectly inconvenient, how incredibly awkward. Best to simply set it aside. People will forget. Certainly he has been forgiven by the administration. An unfortunate lapse, nothing more. Strange how it is that when candidates for high office are subjected to close scrutiny something awkward is invariably revealed.

Casting the dim light of lack of prudent behaviour on their otherwise-sterling reputations.

A senior Treasury official with inside knowledge of everything financial succumbing to the kind of absent-minded forgetfulness that had him "completely unintentionally" make an error in his tax assessment, by withholding taxes due on U.S. payroll taxes.

While, no less, he was employed at the International Monetary Fund. That old adage of the physician's inability to heal himself, never more poignant.

But of course this is an unfortunate instance of a high-powered, highly-remunerated elite professional taking the opportunity to avail his bottom line by overlooking the need to submit required taxes to the very Treasury he had a hand in administering.

How inconvenient can things get, after all? A mere $34,000 thought to be worth that heartache?

What heartache? All is forgiven, forgotten; never happened. He's reimbursed the Internal Revenue Service. And now he will undertake his mission to which he has been sworn through the oath of office administered at the Treasury Department, to supervise the Internal Revenue Service.

Wonder if he is skilled at picking locks, too?