[Disambiguator]

This was—to a large degree—a money laundering op for the dims.

Precisely. The Web-based Solyndra. It doesn't cost 2/3 of a billion dollars to put up a website.

[Baynative]

The money they've spent so far would probably have been enough to establish health savings accounts for the really needy people they claim to be worried about.

(But, of course that's not the goal)