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Climate change expert's fraud was 'crime of massive proportion,' say feds
NBC News ^ | 12/16/2013 | Michael Isikoff

Posted on 12/16/2013 7:35:50 AM PST by detective

The EPA’s highest-paid employee and a leading expert on climate change deserves to go to prison for at least 30 months for lying to his bosses and saying he was a CIA spy working in Pakistan so he could avoid doing his real job, say federal prosecutors.

John C. Beale, who pled guilty in September to bilking the government out of nearly $1 million in salary and other benefits over a decade, will be sentenced in a Washington, D.C., federal court on Wednesday. In a newly filed sentencing memo, prosecutors said that his “historic” lies are “offensive” to those who actually do dangerous work for the CIA.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: algore; climatechange; cooling; debt; epa; fraud; impeachnow; johnbeale; moneylaundering; warming; waste
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He is a Federal Government employee. He never showed up for work, just collected his salary and benefits. It took the government over 10 years to figure it out.
1 posted on 12/16/2013 7:35:50 AM PST by detective
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Calling George Plimpton!


2 posted on 12/16/2013 7:37:17 AM PST by RaceBannon (Lk 16:31 And he said unto him If they hear not Moses and the prophets neither will theybe persuaded)
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He never showed up for work, just collected his salary and benefits. It took the government over 10 years to figure it out.

Tip of the iceberg.

3 posted on 12/16/2013 7:37:57 AM PST by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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a leading expert on climate change deserves to go to prison for at least 30 months for lying to his bosses and saying he was a CIA spy working in Pakistan

But aside from that, you can believe EVERYTHING these guys tell you.

4 posted on 12/16/2013 7:39:45 AM PST by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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LOL...well, that public serpent had the ideal cover story for living the good life on the U.S. taxpayer. How do we know the real CIA employees aren’t doing much the same thing in their “top secret” jobs, filing bogus reports while they are lolling on some beach in the South Pacific?


5 posted on 12/16/2013 7:41:34 AM PST by txrefugee
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Fraud, climate change and government all in the same sentence. No! Say it ain’t so. Now the Federal prosecutors are “deniers”. Just what is happening to Obama? Everytime it snows ,something like this happens.


6 posted on 12/16/2013 7:41:51 AM PST by allendale
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I’ve met soooo many of these idiots over the years who claim to have served in military as SF or SEALs. They say their missions were so classified that none of it is on their DD214. Rubbish!


7 posted on 12/16/2013 7:50:05 AM PST by Portcall24
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Or perhaps they worked in “supply.”


8 posted on 12/16/2013 8:03:07 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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Climate change itself is a lie, so it makes sense that everybody associated with it would be liars.
9 posted on 12/16/2013 8:05:33 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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John C. Beale pled guilty to bilking the government out of nearly $1 million in salary and other benefits over a decade...

One million over a decade??? That's 100,000 dollars a year.

He's doing what our elected leaders are doing every day. And for less money.

10 posted on 12/16/2013 8:06:28 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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The much bigger fraud is that the EPA is trying to convince us that AGW is real!

I would like to see Algore and all that promote the lie go to prison for life, Minimum, as a punishment.

11 posted on 12/16/2013 8:11:54 AM PST by PATRIOT1876
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*Fraud, climate change and government all in the same sentence. No! Say it ain’t so. Now the Federal prosecutors are “deniers”. Just what is happening to Obama? Everytime it snows ,something like this happens.*

His position is open.

I wonder if the classified ad reads:

EPA Scammer needed to promote Socialist hoax, liars ONLY need apply.
Grifters, carney workers, ex-politicans preferred.

12 posted on 12/16/2013 8:13:32 AM PST by PATRIOT1876
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“historic” lies

No more historic the the whopper If you like your insurance...

13 posted on 12/16/2013 8:15:00 AM PST by Gamecock (There are not just two ways to respond to God but three: irreligion, religion, and the gospel. (TK))
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it's NOTHING compared to the Climate-Change HOAX itself...
14 posted on 12/16/2013 8:27:43 AM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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When I worked at Honeywell in the 1980’s an employee would show up, have coffee, walk around and talk to everybody. Then, he’d drive down the road the Hercules and do the same. He did this all day long every day and was holding down two fulltime jobs where he never worked. An IRS agent blew the whistle on him. Hercules fired him. Believe it or not, Honeywell gave him a choice of quitting Hercules or Honeywell. I’d have fired him and his boss.

(I don’t remember how it finally came out as my job changed and I moved on.)


15 posted on 12/16/2013 8:32:40 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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Boss (to Kramer): Kramer, I've been reviewing your work, and frankly I don't see any evidence that you have any business training at all. I'm afraid I'm going to have to let you go.

Kramer: Uh, actually I don't even work here.

Boss: That's what makes this so difficult.
16 posted on 12/16/2013 8:38:01 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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The Weasel ratted him out.


17 posted on 12/16/2013 9:08:41 AM PST by JohnnyP
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I hope he only gets a CFL lamp in prison.


18 posted on 12/16/2013 9:12:51 AM PST by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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ha!


19 posted on 12/16/2013 9:13:26 AM PST by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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He never showed up for work, just collected his salary and benefits. It took the government over 10 years to figure it out.

Even then it was a miracle, 'cause the guy who's supposed to prevent these things hasn't been doing his job in 20 years.

20 posted on 12/16/2013 9:16:10 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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