DOE report faults $450K payments to ex-Rep. Wilson (Heather)

[DeSwiss]

Source: AP



Former U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson collected nearly half a million dollars in questionable payments from four federally funded nuclear labs after she left office, the Energy Department’s inspector general says in a new report.

Wilson failed to provide documentation for the work she did to earn $20,000 a month from the Los Alamos and Sandia national labs in New Mexico from January 2009 to March 2011, the report said. Officials at the Nevada Test Site and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee acknowledged there “were no deliverables” associated with $30,000 the two labs paid Wilson. Sandia had Wilson lobby for more defense dollars, an apparent violation of her contract, the report said.

In total, nearly $450,000 in questionable payments were identified, the bulk from Los Alamos and Sandia.

The contractors that run the labs billed the payments to the government, "even though they did not receive evidence that work performed under the agreements had been completed," the report said. The payments were fully reimbursed by the government.


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- Scandals, scandals everywhere!!! Instead of that dry AP version, the funnier version of this story is here.

See also: Oak Ridge National Laboratory defends its contract arrangement with ex-Rep. Heather Wilson; says it did nothing wrong

[Warpy]

1. I would dearly love to see the law catch up to the PNAC's darling

Anything to prevent Heartless Heather from running for office in this state ever again.

[abq e streeter]

3. Amen to that.

[jonthebru]

2. I often forget to check the wonkette site.

The perspective there is often the best that there is.
And yes, there is no way I could ever work fake $20K in a month let alone in a year.

[DeSwiss]

4. That's where the REAL news is..... :-/ n/t

[HowHasItComeToThis]

5. NEVER TRUST A REPUB

EVEREVER

[Quixote1818]

6. Remember when Janet Jackson's nipple showed at the Super-bowl and Heather Wilson freaked

OH MY GOD! A NASTY NIPPLE!

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

7. Meanwhile, her husband was accused of molesting a teenage boy....

....and she buried the report...what a shock that clearly someone SO OUTRAGED FOR THE CHILDREN turns out to be a creep.

Absolutely one of the biggest hypocrites in the GOP, yet like a bad turd she keeps floating to the top.

[Quixote1818]

8. Come to think of it

Now that you mention it, here is another video of her:

[DeSwiss]

9. HA! Cry me a river!

I hope they play that in the dayroom when she's in the slammer.

[Judi Lynn]

10. Wonkette has her number. She's a grifter, all right. Rec. n/t