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lonestarnot

(77,097 posts)
Mon Dec 16, 2013, 10:04 AM Dec 2013

So while the country is fracked to death, we put up with this shit for years!

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/16/21911592-climate-change-experts-fraud-was-crime-of-massive-proportion-say-feds

The EPA’s highest-paid employee and top expert on climate change engaged in “crime of massive proportions” by pretending to be working as an undercover agent for the CIA so he could avoid doing his real job for years, according to federal prosecutors and the agency's top investigator on the case.


In a memorandum filed days before his sentencing in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, prosecutors asked that John C. Beale, 65, be sent to federal prison for at least 30 months for bilking the government out of nearly $1 million in salary and other benefits over a decade, and said his “historic” lies are “offensive” to those who actually do dangerous work for the CIA.
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Beale’s lawyer, while acknowledging his guilt, has asked for leniency and offered a psychological explanation for the climate expert’s bizarre tales.
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So while the country is fracked to death, we put up with this shit for years! (Original Post) lonestarnot Dec 2013 OP
Holy cow!!! newfie11 Dec 2013 #1
30 months. Probably won't do a day. lonestarnot Dec 2013 #2
You're right. jsr Dec 2013 #4
$206,000 a year for goofing off every day jsr Dec 2013 #3
Bastard. lonestarnot Dec 2013 #5
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