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Solar Company Hired Biden Staffer to Help Secure $1.6 Billion Federal Loan
Heritage ^ | 6//6/12 | Lachlan Markay

Posted on 06/07/2012 5:36:55 PM PDT by Nachum

Internal emails show that BrightSource Energy, which received the largest federal loan for a solar energy project under President Obama’s stimulus package, leveraged its considerable political connections with top Democratic policymakers to secure its $1.6 billion in taxpayer backing.

BrightSource energy faced a “do-or-die moment,” according to a report in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal, as the Energy Department weighed a federal loan for its massive Ivanpah solar farm in the California Mojave Desert.

To spur the administration to approve the loan, BrightSource beefed up its lobbying presence, most notably by hiring Bernie Toon, former chief of staff for then-Senator Joe Biden, to lobby on its behalf. Toon was paid $40,000 for his efforts, according to disclosure forms.

Toon’s connections immediately paid dividends:

On March 9, 2011, just days after being hired, Mr. Toon went to the White House with three BrightSource executives, according to Senate and White House records. There he visited a former colleague, Alan Hoffman, now the top aide to Mr. Biden, whose office was working on green-energy programs, the records show. The White House didn’t make Mr. Hoffman available for comment.

Overall, BrightSource dropped half a million dollars on lobbyists in the run-up to DOE’s decision on the Ivanpah loan.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biden; company; greenenergy; hired; moneylaundering; solar
Mr. Toon? Seriously.
1 posted on 06/07/2012 5:37:02 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


2 posted on 06/07/2012 5:38:34 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

1.6 billion and all he was paid was $40k? Dems are so stupid.


3 posted on 06/07/2012 5:41:22 PM PDT by Hildy ("When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser." - Socrates)
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To: Nachum

I was in Wash DC in April.
Ate lunch at a place on the west side of the WH.

Place was full of guys in 2000 dollar suits and women in 1000 dollar dresses.

At some point we’ll have to go in with pitchforks and Molotov cocktails.


4 posted on 06/07/2012 5:43:18 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Nachum

I’ve always thought Biden was a crook.


5 posted on 06/07/2012 5:57:08 PM PDT by Terry Mross ("It happened. And we let it happen." Peter Griffin - FAMILY GUY)
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To: Liz

stench ping

The Obama Adm’s putrid stench of corruption is smelling like a rotting corpse-— not that I ever smelled a rotting corpse, but my uncle did, and, as a pre-teen, his description made an impression.


6 posted on 06/07/2012 6:20:00 PM PDT by thouworm (.)
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To: Nachum

Does anyone think anything is going to come of this?

I thought not.


7 posted on 06/07/2012 7:19:28 PM PDT by CapnJack
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To: CapnJack

There could if we had an Attorney General .... oh, we only have Eric the Bigot & Corrupt.


8 posted on 06/07/2012 8:07:01 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (There's a pill for just about everything ... except stupid!)
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To: Nachum

The Chicago Way...


9 posted on 06/07/2012 8:25:57 PM PDT by GOPJ (Take your little hammer, little sickle and your scary red signs with a fist on it, and go home...)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Nachum.


10 posted on 06/07/2012 8:50:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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