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Over 100 Criminal Probes Related to Stimulus Funding in the Department of Energy Alone
The Weekly Standard ^ | Nov 2, 2011 | MARK HEMINGWAY

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. 


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chicago; corruption; democrats; doe; embezzlement; fraud; green; obama; obamanomics; spending; stimulus; waste
$2.3 million in monetary recoveries,were is the jail time?

I'd start with harry reid.

1 posted on 11/02/2011 12:29:07 PM PDT by mdittmar
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To: mdittmar
only recieved $35 billion

ONLY $35 billion? That is enough to create 35,000 instant millionaires.

2 posted on 11/02/2011 12:32:18 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.)
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To: mdittmar

“Stimulus” money had one purpose -

laundering taxpayer money into the re-election coffers of democRats.


3 posted on 11/02/2011 12:35:31 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: mdittmar
The Obama stimulus and bail outs were one giant criminal conspiracy to defraud hundreds of billions from the American taxpayer. We will find that the bulk of it went to Obama's and his cohort's cronies, of which some sizable portion was then funneled back into the DNC coffers.

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.


HERMAN CAIN VS. BARACK OBAMA IN 2012

4 posted on 11/02/2011 12:36:46 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Liberty is not free. Never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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Obama will fire him shortly on trumped up charges. Can’t have the IG actually doing his job.


5 posted on 11/02/2011 12:41:16 PM PDT by Signalman
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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 Energy’s 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


6 posted on 11/02/2011 12:42:55 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (See ya later, debt inflator ! Gone in 4 (2012))
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Bear in mind that the Department of Energy only recieved

"I" before "E" except after "C".
7 posted on 11/02/2011 12:42:58 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: mdittmar

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 Energy’s 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


8 posted on 11/02/2011 12:43:04 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (See ya later, debt inflator ! Gone in 4 (2012))
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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?


9 posted on 11/02/2011 12:45:36 PM PDT by TruthConquers (Delendae sunt publicae scholae)
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To: Signalman
Bear in mind that the Department of Energy only recieved

"I" before "E" except after "C".


...except as in "way", as in "neighbor" and "sleigh."
10 posted on 11/02/2011 3:24:34 PM PDT by talleyman (Satan is the Father of Lies - Satan is a Democrat)
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To: talleyman; Signalman

Nope.

See “weird” and “seizure”


11 posted on 11/02/2011 3:28:38 PM PDT by Mears (I can't take anymore of this.)
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“No one messes with Joe.” //sarc//


12 posted on 11/02/2011 10:11:33 PM PDT by BAW (No Romney.)
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