The senior Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official who scammed
the agency out of nearly $1 million in pay without working got service
and salary awards throughout his lengthy career as a climate policy
expert, according to
records
obtained by Judicial Watch. His name is John Beale and he’s on the
verge of completing a 32-month prison sentence for defrauding the
government by claiming, while employed at the EPA, to be a “secret
agent” for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and going on long
vacations that he said were CIA missions. While he committed the fraud the EPA regularly rewarded him with
“Special Act or Service Awards” that included cash and time off, the
records obtained by JW reveal. From 1991 through 1998 Beale received
thousands of dollars in bonuses for his performance as well as a “Time
Off Award” in 1998, the records show. In 2001 he was rewarded yet again
with a promotion to work at the White House as a “Senior Policy
Advisor.” It’s not like Beale was a lowly employee at the EPA. He was a
senior level official who actually worked in the agency’s most powerful
office, Air and Radiation (OAR), under President Obama’s current EPA
Administrator, Gina McCarthy...
more
No comments:
Post a Comment