libertyjam
12-16-2013, 07:13 PM
Gotta just love those guberment employees!
EPA Global Warming Expert (and Its Highest-Paid Employee) Avoided Doing Work for 13 Years by Pretending He Was in the CIA
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/12/16/epa-global-warming-expert-and-its-highest-paid-employee-avoided-doing-work-for-13-years-by-pretending-he-was-in-the-cia/
A former Environmental Protection Agency employee and top global warming expert will be sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to defrauding taxpayers of nearly $1 million in a wild scheme dating back to at least 2000.
The EPAs Top Global Warming Expert and Highest Paid Employee Pretended He Worked for CIA for 13 Years to Avoid Doing Work
Former EPA official John Beale will be sentenced Wednesday for defrauding taxpayers of nearly $1 million (Image source: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee)
John C. Beale, 65, in a “crime of massive proportions” avoided doing his real job for more than a decade by telling his supervisors he was an undercover CIA agent, NBC News reported, citing federal prosecutors. He pleaded guilty in September.
Federal authorities are now requesting Beale serve at least 30 months in federal prison, saying his “historic” lies are “offensive” to CIA agents who actually do covert missions.
EPA Assistant Inspector General Patrick Sullivan, who headed the investigation into Beale’s fraud, was shocked with what he found when he started digging in February 2012.
“I thought, ‘Oh my God, How could this possibly have happened in this agency?” he told NBC. “I’ve worked for the government for 35 years. I’ve never seen a situation like this.”
So how did Beale manage to get away with the deception for so long? Did no one think to double-check his CIA claims? It would appear not, according to federal prosecutors.
Beale was “enabled” because top officials failed to verify his stories or even question the hundreds of thousands of dollars given to him in bonuses and travel expenses.
Before he “retired” in 2011, Beale was earning an annual salary of $206,000 plus bonuses — more than the salaries of his immediate boss and EPA administrator Gina McCarthy, according to official documents.
The former EPA official often skipped going in to work, once going 18 months straight without ever setting foot in his office by telling his supervisors — including McCarthy — that he was doing covert work for the CIA. During a six-month stretch when he didn’t go in, he told supervisors he was needed in Pakistan because the Taliban was torturing his CIA replacement, NBC reported.
“Due to recent events that you have probably read about, I am in Pakistan,” Beale wrote McCarthy in a Dec. 18, 2010 email. “Got the call Thurs and left Fri. Hope to be back for Christmas ….Ho, ho, ho.”
EPA Global Warming Expert (and Its Highest-Paid Employee) Avoided Doing Work for 13 Years by Pretending He Was in the CIA
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/12/16/epa-global-warming-expert-and-its-highest-paid-employee-avoided-doing-work-for-13-years-by-pretending-he-was-in-the-cia/
A former Environmental Protection Agency employee and top global warming expert will be sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to defrauding taxpayers of nearly $1 million in a wild scheme dating back to at least 2000.
The EPAs Top Global Warming Expert and Highest Paid Employee Pretended He Worked for CIA for 13 Years to Avoid Doing Work
Former EPA official John Beale will be sentenced Wednesday for defrauding taxpayers of nearly $1 million (Image source: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee)
John C. Beale, 65, in a “crime of massive proportions” avoided doing his real job for more than a decade by telling his supervisors he was an undercover CIA agent, NBC News reported, citing federal prosecutors. He pleaded guilty in September.
Federal authorities are now requesting Beale serve at least 30 months in federal prison, saying his “historic” lies are “offensive” to CIA agents who actually do covert missions.
EPA Assistant Inspector General Patrick Sullivan, who headed the investigation into Beale’s fraud, was shocked with what he found when he started digging in February 2012.
“I thought, ‘Oh my God, How could this possibly have happened in this agency?” he told NBC. “I’ve worked for the government for 35 years. I’ve never seen a situation like this.”
So how did Beale manage to get away with the deception for so long? Did no one think to double-check his CIA claims? It would appear not, according to federal prosecutors.
Beale was “enabled” because top officials failed to verify his stories or even question the hundreds of thousands of dollars given to him in bonuses and travel expenses.
Before he “retired” in 2011, Beale was earning an annual salary of $206,000 plus bonuses — more than the salaries of his immediate boss and EPA administrator Gina McCarthy, according to official documents.
The former EPA official often skipped going in to work, once going 18 months straight without ever setting foot in his office by telling his supervisors — including McCarthy — that he was doing covert work for the CIA. During a six-month stretch when he didn’t go in, he told supervisors he was needed in Pakistan because the Taliban was torturing his CIA replacement, NBC reported.
“Due to recent events that you have probably read about, I am in Pakistan,” Beale wrote McCarthy in a Dec. 18, 2010 email. “Got the call Thurs and left Fri. Hope to be back for Christmas ….Ho, ho, ho.”