Steven Chu, a Nobel Prizewinner, is acting the stooge’s part in the Solyndra give away part of Obama’s green play.
***Steven Chu works for Obama, who controls trillions of $ of resources and is beholden to him. Kullander does not work for Rossi; nor does Rossi have anywhere near the kinds of resources, so your parallel breaks down.
The Leonardo Technologies Inc. part looks like a private sector mirror image of the White House Czar operation except they were contracted to provide "consultancy services" ~ to wit, where to stick the appropriated money.
Rossi doesn't just pop up out of the mists ~ he was around in the mid 1990s and so were the LTI guys but as DOE employees, or working with other DOE related subcontractors or lobbying operations (much of it in the "clean coal scam" ~ later on (meaning 3 years ago) an Obama favorite ~ even used in the 2008 campaign.
Now, let's flip back to Chu ~ he sounds like a total doufous ~ possibly selected for his job because he is too naive to understand the thefts taking place under his nose. Solyndra turned out to be a very bad deal ~ but yet LTI's consulting contract value doubled over 2years. Same guys ~ same number of employees ~ double the cost ~ which usually means something!
My statement was a hypothetical response to a poster's question of what could possibly cause a respected scientist to get sucked in by something that was questionable; it isn't a judgement on Rossi specifically.
I hope he's right; but there are some things he does which make me wonder. For example, recently he trumpeted the fact that National Instruments had agreed to work with him instrumenting the E-Cat. Well, my first thought was that NI will sell DAC boards to anyone--it seemed like a self-promotional announcement. Things like that make you wonder--but that's not the same as being there and able to form a definite opinion one way or the other.