VOA Exec Fired For Reports Of Misconduct, Fraud, And False Credentials Quickly Rehired Under Biden
By Jordan Davidson
February 25, 2021
Officials at the congressionally funded international broadcaster Voice of America quietly rehired an executive this week who had recently been put on administrative leave for misconduct and slated for firing over multiple whistleblower allegations of misconduct, fraud, and false education credentials, as well as a damning Office of Personnel and Management report.
John Lippman, acting VOA director of programming, announced that former Persian Division Director Setareh Derakhshesh Sieg would return as special assistant to the director of programming and director of program review.
Sieg’s return to the VOA comes shortly after she was placed on administrative leave at the beginning of January by former Deputy Director Elizabeth Robbins while under investigation for “multiple forms of misconduct.†The misconduct allegedly included allowing certain staff to “charge excessive overtime,†engaging in “potentially fraudulent expenditures,†abusing government funds, and falsified education credentials.
Sieg claiming she earned a doctorate from the Sorbonne Paris even though the degree was apparently from the University of Paris 7 Diderot. These reportedly false credentials were featured on the VOA website until they were recently scrubbed.
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