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Saturday, January 25, 2014

Top Republican Says EPA Fraudster Revelations 'First Layer Of A Very Big Onion'

The top Republican on the Senate environment committee said Thursday that newly released transcripts showing an ex-EPA official discussing his widespread fraud against the government -- as well as a pet "project" to "modify" capitalism -- are likely "the first layer of a very big onion" at the EPA.

Sen. David Vitter, R-La., is continuing to call for a hearing before the Environment and Public Works Committee on the case of John Beale. The former EPA official was sentenced in December to 32 months in prison for bilking taxpayers out of nearly $1 million by pretending to be a CIA agent.

The plot thickened, though, after a House committee this week released hundreds of pages of transcripts from a deposition he gave to congressional lawmakers in December. In it, Beale freely discussed the lies he told his colleagues, but also claimed he had been working on a "project" examining ways to "modify the DNA of the capitalist system."

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1 comment:

ginn said...

A clear indication of something amiss are the actions of the chairwoman of the Senate environment committee, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. Any time a Senate committee chairperson doesn't want any further investigation it's a sure sign of something corrupt particularly if that Senator is a Democrat.