Posted on 01/20/2025 2:15:50 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Energy Department's inspector general warned that agency officials are not complying with conflict-of-interest rules
The Department of Energy, in one of its final actions under President Joe Biden, earmarked billions of dollars in green energy loans to utility companies based in Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm's home state of Michigan—defying the agency's inspector general, who called on the Biden administration to suspend the loan program amid conflict-of-interest concerns.
Some of Granholm's largest campaign benefactors during her Michigan gubernatorial campaign were among the companies receiving the hefty last-minute loans.
The Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office announced Thursday that it awarded a staggering $22.9 billion in loan guarantees for utility companies to develop green energy projects across 12 states. More than $14 billion of that total was awarded to DTE Energy and Consumers Energy, the two companies with ties to Granholm, solely for projects in Michigan.
In addition, on Friday afternoon, the office announced a $1.3 billion loan for Michigan Potash Company to help fund a sustainable fertilizer plant in Osceola County, Michigan.
DTE Energy's political action committee contributed more than $34,000 to Granholm's 2006 gubernatorial campaign, according to state records. Then-DTE Energy CEO Stephen Ewing, whom Granholm appointed to serve on the state's Early Childhood Investment Corporation Executive Committee, personally donated another $3,400 to Granholm's campaign in 2004.
Consumers Energy's political action committee gave Granholm's gubernatorial campaign $25,000 in that same timespan, additional data show. And Brandon Hofmeister, the company's current senior vice president of strategy, sustainability, and external affairs, served as Granholm's energy and climate policy adviser and deputy legal counsel when she was governor.
The outsized lame duck spending benefiting Michigan is the latest activity from the Loan Programs Office to raise questions about the integrity of the…
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Claw back?
Michigan? I thought she packed up and left for California years ago.
Ensuring herself a state job when she leaves office.
Yes, Jenny Grandtheft.
DTE Energy’s political action committee
Hopefully a prison sentence instead.
my goof , thought dte was dept of energy. Fodder for the BEE
22 billion less for feds to send to that state.
Banana Republic behavior.
Chris Wright, Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Energy, said during his Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday that he was aware of the inspector general report and would immediately address the program if confirmed.
So who writes this cow a check? This is BS, LOCK HER UP
Refer her for criminal charges to the DOJ. It’s within the OIG’s powers.
Looting the treasury is the ‘RAT way.
Cool. So many things to undo.
Absolutely or withhold from state funds and then go after her through DOJ.
oops, she missed the pardon train I see !!
Did she get a preemptive pardon?
Audit her and arrest if necessary.
Well, she was born in Vancouver, British Columbia...
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