Posted on 11/02/2011 12:29:03 PM PDT by mdittmar
Thankfully, at least one man in the federal government has been awfully busy on behalf of the American taxpayer:
The Energy Department's inspector general has launched more than 100 criminal investigations related to 2009 economic stimulus spending.
In written testimony prepared for delivery to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today, Inspector General Gregory Friedman said the investigations have involved "various schemes, including the submission of false information, claims for unallowable or unauthorized expenses, and other improper uses of Recovery Act funds."So far, the investigations have led to five criminal prosecutions and brought in "over $2.3 million in monetary recoveries," Friedman said.
Bear in mind that the Department of Energy only recieved $35 billion of the $787 billion allocated by the stimulus bill. It would be impossible to get a handle on how much criminal activity surrounds the stimulus bill, given that the federal government is not exactly known for aggressively policing fraud. Still, it sounds like the Department of Energy inspector general is doing yeoman's work. If the schemes that he's uncovered are anything to go by, the stimulus has likely produced a staggering amount of crime.
I'd start with harry reid.
ONLY $35 billion? That is enough to create 35,000 instant millionaires.
“Stimulus” money had one purpose -
laundering taxpayer money into the re-election coffers of democRats.
These people need to be breaking rocks in the Grey Rock Hotel and they should be doing it for the next 25 years.
I pray Herman Cain gets the nomination and then brings Obama and his admin down.
Obama will fire him shortly on trumped up charges. Can’t have the IG actually doing his job.
The Obama Administration spent nearly half of the $38.6 billion ($17.2 billion) set aside for his green energy programs and was only able to create 3,545 permanent green jobs. This comes out to a staggering $4,853,000 per job.
Now we find out that the Obama Energy Department is going back and changing solar energy press releases. CNBC reported:
Someone affiliated with the Department of Energy has been going back to make changes to press releases posted on the Internet weeks and months ago, CNBC has found.
The changes occurred in two press releases from the Department of Energys loan guarantee program the same program that has been the center of controversy surrounding the failed solar company Solyndra.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2795312/posts
The Obama Administration spent nearly half of the $38.6 billion ($17.2 billion) set aside for his green energy programs and was only able to create 3,545 permanent green jobs. This comes out to a staggering $4,853,000 per job.
Now we find out that the Obama Energy Department is going back and changing solar energy press releases. CNBC reported:
Someone affiliated with the Department of Energy has been going back to make changes to press releases posted on the Internet weeks and months ago, CNBC has found.
The changes occurred in two press releases from the Department of Energys loan guarantee program the same program that has been the center of controversy surrounding the failed solar company Solyndra.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2795312/posts
I have wondered how much of TARP ended up in demonrats hands, never mind foreign banks.
Will we ever know the full extent of their thievery?
Nope.
See “weird” and “seizure”
“No one messes with Joe.” //sarc//
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