Monday, December 16, 2013

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

Climate change expert's fraud was 'crime of massive proportion,' say feds - Investigations: "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" that were “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.”"

This is ridiculous.  How he got away with it for so long is anybody's guess.  Probably because the government is terrible at holding employees accountable (and highly gullible it seems.)

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