Posted on 10/01/2013 9:37:40 AM PDT by jazusamo
A high-ranking federal Environmental Protection Agency official who admitted to cheating the government out of nearly $1 million by pretending to be a secret agent, smugly refused to answer questions from lawmakers Tuesday, invoking the Fifth Amendment – even though he’s already pleaded guilty.
John Beale, who got himself a cushy four-day workweek for years by telling his bosses he had a one-day-per-week gig at the CIA, refused to answer even the most basic questions from Rep. Darryl Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Although Issa said his committee hauled Beale, 64, in not to “ridicule” him, but to ensure that the fraud he committed wasn’t being duplicated by other government employees, Beale calmly refused.
“I will be asserting my Fifth Amendment privilege this morning,” Beale, who also lied to superiors about serving in Vietnam, told a visibly frustrated Issa.
Beale’s trickery, which began more than a decade ago, cost taxpayers an estimated $886,000, much of it in the form of unearned pay over some 13 years. Under his plea agreement, he must pay that money back, as well as an additional $507,000, and serve 30-37 months in prison. His lawyer told the panel that his plea agreement did not require him to cooperate with lawmakers, though Issa said he would seek to make it a condition of acceptance of the plea and sentencing by U.S. District Judge Ellen Segel Huvelle.
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Don’t think it works that way. Put him up for contempt of Congress, obstruction of justice and anything else Issa can think of.
Issa might look at the fraud in the WH. Beale is a little nobody compared to the $$$$$$$ the Boy Wonder is stealing.
Has Darryl Issa ever gotten to the bottom of anything?
Exactly, this turkey must have watched the Lerner fiasco and thinks he can get away with it also, make him sing or put him in a federal slammer for a very long time.
What kind of useless “work” did he do at the EPA?
I don’t know but I’d bet very little, you just can’t make this stuff up.
Reminds me of what I did back in highschool. I told the study hall monitor that I had a job with the audio-visual group for that class period, and then I walked home for an hour and a half lunch time, every day that year. Didn’t cost the school a million bucks, though.
Who is going to hold him accountable for this? He will get a friken’ pay raise a award and a job promotion.
Probably doing what the EPA does best. Destroying the economy, while stuffing his own pockets.
>>Just shows you that Lerner or this hoser have absolutely no fear of Issa’s committee <<
You meant ineffectual committee, I presume?
That seems to be a crime with no penalty, these days.
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