EPA's top climate change expert is a fraud

[Jay]

Climate change expert's fraud was 'crime of massive proportion,' say feds

 

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/16/21911592-climate-change-experts-fraud-was-crime-of-massive-proportion-say-feds%26

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.

 

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" and “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.

 

“With the help of his therapist,” wrote attorney John Kern, “Mr. Beale has come to recognize that, beyond the motive of greed, his theft and deception were animated by a highly self-destructive and dysfunctional need to engage in excessively reckless, risky behavior.” Kern also said Beale was driven “to manipulate those around him through the fabrication of grandiose narratives … that are fueled by his insecurities.”

 

[Stradling]

This might be in the wrong forum. Jay did you want this in the political forum?

Edited December 17, 2013 by Stradling

[Blarg]

I think woops is this guys defense.

[Tank]

he doesn't also happen to do sign language at huge public events in south africa, does he?

[TennAngelsFan]

I think we are being too hard on the poor guy.  At least he's said he's sorry.  That would make  him overqualified for cabinet positions though.

[arch stanton]

Leavenworth is a grandiose paradise. Enjoy.