It's just not that difficult

Another top-level staffer in the Obama administration, this time a union hack detailed over from the SEIU, just couldn't seem to properly disclose his leftover compensation from his former employer, and is now shamefully having to make a few corrections: 

"Patrick Gaspard, who served as the political director for the Service Employees International Union local 1199, received $37,071.46 in “carried over leave and vacation” from the union in 2009, but he did not disclose the agreement to receive the payment on his financial disclosure forms filed with the White House. 

In a section on his financial disclosure where agreements or arrangements for payment by a former employer must be disclosed, Gaspard checked a box indicating that he had nothing to report.

In a section on his financial disclosure where agreements or arrangements for payment by a former employer must be disclosed, Gaspard checked a box indicating that he had nothing to report."

Gaspard apparently wouldn't or couldn't (we don't know which is worse) read his own employment agreement in order to comply with Federal law that's designed to avoid even the appearance of chicanery, yet he's now Obama's political director.  Good show, Patrick.  We suppose you're so wealthy that you completely forgot about a measly 40 grand or so, except that you probably could have used those monies to pay off some of the "$35,000 to $80,000 in credit card debt and student loans, according to his financial disclosures."
 
And these are the people who promised to the high heavens to have the highest levels of ethics and "transparency", which are the reasons those laws are present in the first place.  Looks like they're doing a bang-up job of it.