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

Posted on 12/16/2013 1:45:17 PM PST by edwinland

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.

Follow @NBCInvestigates 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 lies were a "crime of massive proportion" that were “offensive” to those who actually do dangerous work for the CIA.

Beale’s lawyer, while acknowledging his guilt, has asked for leniency and offered a psychological explanation for the climate expert’s bizarre tales.

(Excerpt) Read more at investigations.nbcnews.com ...


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"Kern, Beale’s lawyer, declined to comment to NBC News. But in his court filing, he asks Judge Ellen Huvelle ... to balance Beale’s misdeeds against years of admirable work for the government. These include helping to rewrite the Clean Air Act in 1990, heading up EPA delegations to United Nations conferences on climate change in 2000 and 2001, and helping to negotiate agreements to reduce carbon emissions with China, India and other nations."

Can anyone think of an appropriate analogy for this request??

1 posted on 12/16/2013 1:45:17 PM PST by edwinland
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To: edwinland

Has anybody ever signed off on a review for this thief?


2 posted on 12/16/2013 1:47:10 PM PST by Thebaddog (Sixteen days til Obamageddon!)
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To: edwinland

His entire career is fraudulent.


3 posted on 12/16/2013 1:48:05 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: edwinland

I guess he ran out of false stuff to say about Climate Change, so made up another way to defraud us.


4 posted on 12/16/2013 1:49:34 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: edwinland

Apparently the attorney thinks two wrongs make a right.


5 posted on 12/16/2013 1:49:39 PM PST by cuban leaf
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To: Thebaddog

You ask a wonderful question.


6 posted on 12/16/2013 1:50:16 PM PST by nascarnation (Wish everyone see a "Gay Kwanzaa")
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To: edwinland

Where do we go to get our money back?

7 posted on 12/16/2013 1:53:01 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: edwinland

So the highest paid guy at EPA at 206k was also their climate change expert and helped to write the Clean Air Act.

And the media is surprised that this guy was a total fraud stealing a million from the government for over a decade?

I think anyone knowledgable would think that one implies the other and should have expected this.


8 posted on 12/16/2013 1:53:58 PM PST by KC Burke (Officially since Memorial Day they are the Gimmie-crat Party.ha)
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To: edwinland
Al Gore invented the internet also.
9 posted on 12/16/2013 1:54:02 PM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: edwinland

30 months? how about 30 years along with everyone else who knew and did nothing.


10 posted on 12/16/2013 1:57:16 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Thebaddog

I’d give him a + if he wasn’t creating or enforcing any EPA regs.

That might even be worth the salary we paid.


11 posted on 12/16/2013 1:57:42 PM PST by Scrambler Bob ( Concerning bo -- that refers to the president. If I capitalize it, I mean the dog.)
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To: edwinland

Don’t show up for a year and a half and get paid any way.

nice ‘work’ if you can get it.


12 posted on 12/16/2013 1:57:59 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: edwinland
A million dollars is peanuts compared to the billions or more that are being spent on the climate change hoax.

I say give him the death sentence for crimes against humanity.

13 posted on 12/16/2013 2:03:18 PM PST by oldbrowser ("From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs" .....Marx)
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To: edwinland
With just a little rewrite:

The USA’s highest ranked elected official and a leading expert on almost nothing deserves to go to prison for at least 30 months for lying to those who elected him and saying ‘they can keep their health care’ and that he was working on his golf game so he could avoid doing his real job, say federal prosecutors.

Barry Soeterro (aka Barack 0bama) hopefully will plead guilty before September to bilking the government out of nearly $645 million in salary and other benefits over a three year period for a “website”. In a newly filed memo, prosecutors said that his lies were a "crime of massive proportion" that were “offensive” to those who actually work.

Soetero’s lawyer, while acknowledging his guilt, has asked for leniency and offered a psychological explanation for the bizarre tales.

14 posted on 12/16/2013 2:07:25 PM PST by Michael.SF. (I never thought anyone could make Jimmy Carter look good in comparison.)
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To: edwinland

No but I can think of some good punishment ideas.


15 posted on 12/16/2013 2:09:50 PM PST by Fledermaus (If we here in TN can't get rid of the worthless Lamar, it's over.)
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To: Thebaddog

That was my first thought too, how on earth can somebody pull that off? The must be so little oversight for this to happen, can you imagine how much fraud there must be going on in these institutions? ...it seems you’ve never “heard it all” after all, it’s nuts. ...wondering who is this mans supervisor?


16 posted on 12/16/2013 2:29:02 PM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: edwinland

Maybe he can get a job as a Presidential sign language interpreter.


17 posted on 12/16/2013 2:44:39 PM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes everything)
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To: edwinland

0bambi has ben negotiating agreements with terrorist regimes to reduce nuclear or chemical weapon ‘emissions’. But that naïve nonsense only distracts from his domestic misdeeds.

Compared to 0bambi, Bernie Madoff and John Beale are as pure as the Pope.


18 posted on 12/16/2013 2:56:37 PM PST by rfp1234 (Impeach We Much!)
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To: driftdiver

30 years with only CFL bulbs in their cells.


19 posted on 12/16/2013 3:10:29 PM PST by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: edwinland
Teeny tiny crime compared to the hoax Algore is still committing!
20 posted on 12/16/2013 3:14:32 PM PST by PATRIOT1876
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