A coven of corruption-----Flashback 2013: “Climate Change” Expert Jailed for Conning EPA out of $900K

Flashback 2013: “Climate Change” Expert Jailed for Conning EPA out of $900K:
"The EPA has been hit with a veritable flood of scandals recently.
We covered the Animas River spill, caused by the EPA’s rush to solve a non-problem involving a mine’s wastewater, which impacted the water quality for several Western states.
In 2013, one climate change expert who posed as a CIA operative was jailed for conning the agency out of nearly $1 Million.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s top climate change expert and highest paid employee was sentenced to 32 months in federal prison today for defrauding the government.
John C. Beale, who lives with his wife in Virginia, claimed he was a CIA agent working in Pakistan so he didn’t have to show up for work for months at a time and defrauded the government out of more than $900,000….
The 65-year-old’s 13 year scam was ‘inexplicable’ and ‘unbelievably egregious’, Judge Ellen Huvelle said in Washington D.C. federal court today.
At least Beale was candid about his motivation!
“Why did I do this? Greed – simple greed – and I’m ashamed of that greed,” Beale told the court. He also said it was possible that he got a “rush” and a “sense of excitement” by telling people he was worked for the CIA. “It was something like an addiction,” he said.