![]() An entire cup was baked into these brown beauties and the syrup added that wonderful chocolate flavor. Yep, that wonderful syrup you all love to drench your ice cream in actually works great in brownies as well. ![]() You might be surprised to find that the key ingredient in these extra fudgy brownies is chocolate syrup. It’s chocolate, layered upon chocolate, layered upon chocolate, layered upon MORE chocolate–basically a chocoholic’s paradise, aka MY paradise! Judging by the pictures, there should be no question as to how I settled on the name. Speaking of “getting wasted”….I’m pretty certain you’d be way past the “legal chocolate limit” if you were to consume just one piece of these sintastically rich, fudgy gems. Thankfully, our brains don’t suffer as much as our hips and thighs do when it comes to consuming chocolate. With my nonstop chocolate cravings and “needs”, I’d literally get nothing done every single day because I’d be absolutely wasted by noon. If chocolate had the same effect as alcohol, I’d be in serious trouble. (Updates with details from report in fifth paragraph.Unbelievably fudgy brownies slathered with a thick layer of chocolate buttercream, followed by a sinful assortment of chocolate candy, and a final drizzle of melted chocolate on top! The report, signed by Kevin Winters, chairman of the council’s Integrity Committee and Amtrak’s inspector general, recommended that the CFTC take disciplinary action “up to and including” removing Lavik from his post. Lavik disputed the finding, saying his private discussions with staff were supposed to remain private, according to the report. But in the report, the investigators said their surprise when Lavik then asked them, “Have you seen her?” The inspector general said he wouldn’t have used the expletive, according to the report. On one occasion, according to the report, a colleague said that Lavik discussed an employee’s fitness for the job and angrily said, “I want to f*** her.” Lavik was also found to have made disparaging comments about CFTC employees. Lavik also spent more than $165,000 to keep a consultant - a former CFTC inspector-general employee - on retainer for almost two years without requiring the person to produce any work, according to the report. “Even more disturbing is his effort to justify the endangerment of the whistleblowers as legitimate.” “It’s shocking IG Lavik has been able to keep this job for over 30 years,” said Danielle Brian, executive director of the Project on Government Oversight. The report’s authors said federal law strictly prohibits inspectors general from publicly disclosing information that would identify employee whistleblowers without their consent. Lavik disagreed that he had violated whistleblower protections, making the argument that those parties “are entitled to unredacted reports from his office,” the CIGIE panel wrote. The panel of the CIGIE found that Lavik “grossly” mismanaged his office and engaged in “substantial misconduct” when he disclosed internal whistleblowers’ identities by sharing unredacted copies of inspector general reports with Congress and commissioners, the panel found. ![]() The CIGIE panel had received multiple complaints about Lavik from December 2018 and expanded its probe in 2021 to look into other areas, according its February report. Lavik, who has held his post for decades, and the Office of the Inspector General didn’t respond to requests for comment. Those panels have oversight over the CFTC. The commission plans to take next steps in the process of removing him in the coming weeks and has informed the House and Senate Agriculture committees of its actions, according to the people familiar with the matter. The effort follows a February report from a panel of the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, a government entity that serves as the watchdog of the federal watchdogs. Roy Lavik on administrative leave, according to people with knowledge of the situation who asked not to be identified discussing internal agency deliberations. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is taking initial steps to put Inspector General A. (Bloomberg) - A top Wall Street regulator is making moves that could lead to the ouster of its inspector general after an independent probe found he had disclosed the identities of whistleblowers, wasted money and disparaged agency employees.
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