So does AID and DIA and probably all of them in one form or fa$hion:
"Former EPA official admits he stole nearly $900k; Frequent no-show claimed he was working for CIA" by Frederic J. Frommer | Associated Press, September 28, 2013
WASHINGTON — A former high-ranking official with the Environmental Protection Agency pleaded guilty Friday to stealing nearly $900,000 from the agency over 13 years by failing to show up for work while falsely claiming to be working for the CIA and for filing bogus expenses.
They couldn't confirm or deny.
John C. Beale, 64, a former deputy assistant administrator in the Office of Air and Radiation, accepted a plea agreement with the government at a court hearing. US Magistrate Judge John M. Facciola read the evidence against Beale and asked if it were true.
In a flat, emotionless voice, Beale answered, ‘‘Yes it is, your honor.’’
Maybe, maybe not. They do have environmental connections and are trained to lie and fall on the sword.
Under the plea deal with prosecutors, Beale faces 30 to 37 months in prison. The deal also calls for Beale to pay restitution of $886,000, forfeit an additional $507,000, and pay a fine of up to $60,000. The final decision will be made by the sentencing judge in the case, Ellen Segal Huvelle. No sentencing date has been set. Beale was released on personal recognizance and will return to Manhattan, where he now lives.
‘‘John Beale stole from the government for more than a decade by telling lies of outlandish proportions,’’ Ronald Machen, the US attorney for the District of Columbia, said in a statement.
Yeah, where does he get off doing that! That is THEIR JOB!
The agency’s inspector general, Arthur A. Elkins Jr., said that Beale was able to get away with the fraud for so long because of ‘‘an absence of even basic internal controls at the EPA.’’
Anybody check the emails the NSA scooped up, or.... ???
According to the statement of offense that he signed, Beale started taking one day a week off from work starting in 2000, and indicated on his EPA electronic calendar he was working at the CIA’s Directorate of Operations.
I know guys who did that. They would budget out what they needed for the next week and call in sick on a Monday or a Friday. Back in the day when there was nothing corporate could do. Became a running joke, and it was funny.
He told an EPA manager that he had been assigned to an interagency special advisory group, and the manager agreed to his request. For 102 days from 2000 to June 2008, Beale took off while claiming to work for the CIA, the court document says.
They didn't claim that.
In 2005, an EPA manager approved a research project that Beale had proposed, even though it had no internal controls or oversight. From 2005 to 2007, Beale took about five trips to Los Angeles for the project and was reimbursed for $57,000. The statement of offense says that he used the project to have the EPA pay for his personal travel, which included visiting family members in California.
Beginning in June 2008, Beale was a no-show at work for about six months, telling managers and employees he was working on the research project or working for ‘‘Langley,’’ where the CIA is based. Then he took off from June 2011 to December 2012 for his claimed CIA work, even after he announced he was retiring from the EPA. In total, he took about 2½ years off from work.
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Also see: Obama's Alphabet Scandals: EPA E-Mails
Both have been deleted from my Boston Globe coverage.
