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Treasury off'l: Taxpayers on hook for loan before commercial firms is a first with Solyndra
The Daily Caller ^ | October 14, 2011 | Matthew Boyle

Posted on 10/14/2011 11:53:01 AM PDT by matthewreporter

At Friday’s Solyndra hearing, an Obama administration Treasury Department official admitted that he’s never heard of taxpayer money being subordinate to outside commercial firms.

That means the Obama administration is admitting it’s awfully suspicious that investors like George Kaiser’s firms and others got their cash back when Solyndra failed, but the taxpayers ended up on the hook for the $535 million the Department of Energy promised it via a loan guarantee.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: boondoggle; doe; first; green; kaiser; loan; scam; solyndra; taxpayers; unprecedented

1 posted on 10/14/2011 11:53:05 AM PDT by matthewreporter
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To: matthewreporter

Barry says we can absorb it.


2 posted on 10/14/2011 12:18:49 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Doesn't anyone love liberty anymore?)
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