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Posted on 12/03/2009 8:17:10 AM PST by opentalk
A former top climate scientist who had become of one the scientific world's most cited authorities on the human effect on Earth's atmosphere was sentenced to probation Tuesday after pleading guilty to steering lucrative no-bid contracts to his wife's company.
In addition to a year's probation, former NASA manager Mark Schoeberl, 60, of Silver Spring, was also fined $10,000 and ordered to put in 50 hours of community service. He admitted in the late summer that he had hid some $50,000 in NASA contracts for a company called Animated Earth, which was run by Schoeberl's wife, Barbara. Prosecutors alleged that Schoeberl tried to help his wife's firm for years. When his colleagues balked at giving no-bid contracts to his wife's firm, Schoeberl pressured them to steer money to his wife through indirect means.
Schoeberl was the chief scientist of the Goddard Space Flight Center's Earth Sciences Division and the head of the Aura Project, a NASA mission to study the Earth's ozone layer, air quality and climate. He has written extensively about the depletion of the ozone level, and the influence of humans on global climate change.
Animated Earth offers plasma-screen kiosks that carry satellite images of the Earth's climate and atmosphere.
"It's an important conviction because it vindicates the principle that federal employees have to act in the public's interest," U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein told The Examiner. "The goal here, really, is ... to promote a fair field for contractors."
As early as 2004, Schoeberl began asking about ways to direct no-bid contracts to Animated Earth, he admitted in his plea agreement.
As the chief scientist at the Earth Sciences Division and leader on the Aura Project, Schoeberl had a lot of clout on the space agency's climate change contracting. He helped his wife draw up invoices for her work and wrote "sole source justification" forms for tens of thousands of dollars in no-bid contracts that went to Animated Earth.
Efforts to reach Schoeberl's wife were unsuccessful.
Prosecutors confined their efforts to Schoeberl's business practices and not his scientific one, but it's been a rough couple of weeks for global warming. Officials at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England -- whose research has made up the backbone of world climate policy -- are still trying to explain e-mails that show staff suppressing evidence against global warming.
the principle that federal employees have to act in the public’s interest,”
If I remember correctly he got a contract with the CIA without any completion. But then that was taken by the left wing media to be the greatest thing to happen to then President Bush.
Global Warming Scientist is a Crook.
Like all of the others.
But the Ci-cago green economy has barely begun.
What kind of idiot takes a $50,000 contract with the government? It takes forever to get paid, the contract administration will cost $100,000 in labor, and the allowed profit - income above costs - is strictly limited.
It’s all about the money with these socialist scumbags. It’s always about the money.
Now let’s see if this guy rolls over on that other sick NASA scumbag, Hansen.
Fortunately our Progressively Liberal Media which is ignoring and spiking the Global Warming Fraud realities, may be on its last legs.
Hopefully, the UK and Aussie conservative media will continue to covedr and expose the reality of the Gorebull Warming Fraud with Fox News, FR, Rush, Sean, Mark and other conservative spokes people.
Failure to investigate the scientific fraud committed by the Gorebull Warming Fraud artists may be a bigger crime than the scientific fraud pushed by the Gorebull Warming Con Artists.
The Climate DATA is bad too....see your pings....stepping out for several hours.
And there is something new:
It already is.
It’s all about the money with these liberal “climate” scumbags.
It’s always about the money.
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