Bert Lance

Bert Lance was a person who worked for the United States government a long time ago, when you were not born yet! He worked for President Jimmy Carter, who was the leader of the country.

Bert Lance had a really important job. He was in charge of managing the government's money. This was a big deal because the government has a lot of money, and it needs to use it wisely to help people and make things better.

But some people thought that Bert Lance was not doing his job very well. They said that he was doing things that were not allowed, like borrowing money from the bank in a tricky way. This made some people very upset, and they started to investigate him.

When people investigate something, it means that they look deeply to see if everything is okay or if someone did something wrong. So the investigators looked at what Bert Lance was doing, and they found out that he did some things that were not right.

Because of this, Bert Lance had to leave his job. He was sorry that he did things that were not allowed, but he also said that he did not mean to do anything wrong.

So even though Bert Lance had a very important job, he did some things that were not allowed and he had to leave his job because of it.