The job description made him do it;
The EPA’s highest-paid employee and top expert on climate change engaged in “crime of massive proportions” by pretending to be working as an undercover agent for the CIA so he could avoid doing his real job for years, according to federal prosecutors and the agency’s top investigator on the case.
In a memorandum filed days before his sentencing in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, prosecutors asked that John C. Beale, 65, be sent to federal prison for at least 30 months for bilking the government out of nearly $1 million in salary and other benefits over a decade, and said his “historic” lies are “offensive” to those who actually do dangerous work for the CIA.
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[His laywer] Kern also said Beale was driven “to manipulate those around him through the fabrication of grandiose narratives … ”
So, informal poll time:
Which do you suppose is more offensive to the CIA:
1) Some guy cheating the government out of $900,000 by claiming to be CIA, or;
2) The government abandoning the guy in an Iranian prison for collecting information on behalf of the CIA.
3) The government trying to use the CIA as the ‘fall guy’ in the Benghazi scandal.
/Jeopardy music.
driven “to manipulate those around him through the fabrication of grandiose narratives …
With Gore and Suzuki providing such excellent examples, it’s a wonder. OK no it’s not.
Globe-Mail provides a revealing headline.
H/T “Tu Thanh Ha”
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“Civil servant skipped work by claiming he was working for the CIA”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/this-bogus-spy-was-good-at-adhering-to-a-secrecy-act/article15982384/
Sounds like the typical EPA employee to me. Empire building drones that live to destroy industry and common sense.
Leftist Grauniad posts a factual headline.
The words “climate-change expert” = “fraud” are a sight to behold.
Also: “Last week, an official investigation found that she [“agency chief Gina McCarthy”] knew of the fraud for more than a year.”
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“EPA reels as climate-change expert awaits sentencing for $1m CIA fraud”
“• John Beale pretended to be CIA agent for a decade
• Republicans round on agency chief Gina McCarthy”
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/16/epa-climate-change-expert-cia-fraud
He worked for some really stupid managers… Really Stupid.
This guy is no villain! On the contrary,he’s big time hero.In a Country where deception is the current rule, this man did his job just fine,probably did way less harm than the administration.
A tiny little liar among thousands of really BIG liars,and they want to send HIM to jail!
It is to laugh,(with bitter irony).
Tu Ha has all the makings of a first class opinionist for that rag.
He managed to write that piece without once mentioning this POS’s role as a climate change expert.
The correlation must have been too close for comfort.
Phhhht/ Meanwhile the rest of them continue to think they’re being paid for their efforts to save the world from the ultimate threat to all life on the planet.
Really? So they’re doing something about 99942 Apophis and 4179 Toutatis?
So his defense is: “I has a bad case of ‘green affluence’ disease”?
Climate Science has some very sick individuals. They lie & promote fear Mongering.
Ken Caldeira (Stanford University) wrote in Scientific America Magazine (Sept 2012)Beyond Limits
(Quote) Some of the same Countries that are most likely to suffer from changes wrought by global warming also boast nuclear weapons. Could climate change exacerbate existing tensions and promote nuclear or other apocalyptic conflict? (/Quote)
Why would Stanford University employee such a person? Why would Scientific America publish such fear mongering drivel from a person with mental delusions?
When will Ken Caldeira act out his frustrations on innocent students @ Stanford?
The Obama EPA is all about slease following slease
Beale in for a free meal, sounds like a typical guberment employee to me!!!
Dumb prick. He should have said that he needed the time off to go count polar bears. Not only would it have been granted, but, he could have returned after 4 years, said that he didn’t see any, and the EPA would have believed him.