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Thomas Sprat, an English cleric and writer, died May 20, 1713, at about age 78; his date of birth is unknown.

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Anne Shirley and John Beale in M'Liss (1936)

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Phony CIA agent pulls off $900,000 scam to impose EPA regs on Americans

Convicted felon John Beale took the Environment Protection Agency for a cool $900,000 in a no-show job scheme but that is just the tip of the iceberg for what this corruptocrat did to American taxpayers.

Beale, now serving 32 months for felony theft of government property at a Club Fed in Cumberland, MD, told his clueless bosses that his years-long absences were because he was a CIA agent:

“We should all question how John Beale became a senior official at the EPA and played a major role in long-lasting policy decisions while pulling off a scam I thought only Hollywood could make up,” Sen. David Vitter, R-La., told The Daily Signal.

But perhaps it would have been for the best that taxpayers coughed up nearly a million to keep Beale away from his EPA duties.

Because Beale was instrumental in twisting the legal process to impose costly and scientifically questionable environmental regulations:

Staffers with the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee set out last year to probe the relationship between “sue-and-settle” arrangements and evidence they had uncovered that pointed to the manipulation of scientific data.

What they discovered, as detailed in their report, titled “EPA’s Playbook Unveiled: A Story of Fraud, Deceit and Secret Science,” was how agency officials concealed and misled about the science that underpinned its most significant initiatives and silenced and marginalized their own internal watchdog offices, which enabled the agency to greatly overstate the benefits and underestimate the costs of its Clean Air Act rulemaking.

There is no way to know for sure how much Beale’s efforts cost taxpayers but even a generous estimate goes into the billions:

Beale’s efforts to include ozone in the new regulations proved expensive for Americans.

The EPA estimated the cost at $2.5 billion, but its estimate was based on receiving the full benefits of cutting ozone but achieving only a partial attainment of the standards, which the law did not permit. The Council of Economic Advisers also measured the cost and found it to be $60 billion—24 times the EPA estimate.

Not only did Beale, along with other cronies at the EPA impose costly new regulations, they bent the science in order to grab more power for themselves:

[…] Beale pulled data from two controversial studies—the Harvard Six Cities Study and an American Cancer Society study known as ACSII. The data was not trusted. The air advisory committee pointed out it had not been peer-reviewed, and others indicated Beale was exaggerating the findings for his desired result.

Further undermining those studies’ credibility is that even now, 20 years later, EPA still refuses to release the data, despite McCarthy’s promise to do so during her confirmation hearings.

The same people who aided and abetted Beale and his rogue ways are still in power and still demand the right to regulate every area of our lives.

[stopkingobama]

Phony CIA agent pulls off $900,000 scam to impose EPA regs on Americans

Convicted felon John Beale took the Environment Protection Agency for a cool $900,000 in a no-show job scheme but that is just the tip of the iceberg for what this corruptocrat did to American taxpayers.

Beale, now serving 32 months for felony theft of government property at a Club Fed in Cumberland, MD, told his clueless bosses that his years-long absences were because he was a CIA agent:

“We should all question how John Beale became a senior official at the EPA and played a major role in long-lasting policy decisions while pulling off a scam I thought only Hollywood could make up,” Sen. David Vitter, R-La., told The Daily Signal.

But perhaps it would have been for the best that taxpayers coughed up nearly a million to keep Beale away from his EPA duties.

Because Beale was instrumental in twisting the legal process to impose costly and scientifically questionable environmental regulations:

Staffers with the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee set out last year to probe the relationship between “sue-and-settle” arrangements and evidence they had uncovered that pointed to the manipulation of scientific data.

What they discovered, as detailed in their report, titled “EPA’s Playbook Unveiled: A Story of Fraud, Deceit and Secret Science,” was how agency officials concealed and misled about the science that underpinned its most significant initiatives and silenced and marginalized their own internal watchdog offices, which enabled the agency to greatly overstate the benefits and underestimate the costs of its Clean Air Act rulemaking.

There is no way to know for sure how much Beale’s efforts cost taxpayers but even a generous estimate goes into the billions:

Beale’s efforts to include ozone in the new regulations proved expensive for Americans.

The EPA estimated the cost at $2.5 billion, but its estimate was based on receiving the full benefits of cutting ozone but achieving only a partial attainment of the standards, which the law did not permit. The Council of Economic Advisers also measured the cost and found it to be $60 billion—24 times the EPA estimate.

Not only did Beale, along with other cronies at the EPA impose costly new regulations, they bent the science in order to grab more power for themselves:

[…] Beale pulled data from two controversial studies—the Harvard Six Cities Study and an American Cancer Society study known as ACSII. The data was not trusted. The air advisory committee pointed out it had not been peer-reviewed, and others indicated Beale was exaggerating the findings for his desired result.

Further undermining those studies’ credibility is that even now, 20 years later, EPA still refuses to release the data, despite McCarthy’s promise to do so during her confirmation hearings.

The same people who aided and abetted Beale and his rogue ways are still in power and still demand the right to regulate every area of our lives.

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Gaming the System: Fraud and Abuse in the Federal Government

Gaming the System: Fraud and Abuse in the Federal Government

The Federal establishment is huge with millions of employees, some of whom know how to game the system for their own benefit.

There is the well known case of fake spy John Beale, a movie-worthy drama about a high-ranking EPA official who fooled co-workers for years and swindled the government out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Beale convinced his superiors that he was a spy who required…

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High level employee steals $900,000 dollars from unknowing EPA

The incompetence of federal government agencies just continues to grow and grow. These agencies are simply so large, that they are beginning to collapse under their own weight.

Take the case John C. Beale, a high-level staffer at the Environment Protection Agency. While working as a senior policy adviser in the Office of Air and Radiation, he managed to steal over $900,000 dollars from the EPA. Even though he made numerous disappearances to South Africa, England, and China on company time, claiming to be working on a “top-secret” project for the CIA, no one batted an eye.

“This is a situation where one individual went to great lengths to deceive and defraud the U.S. government,” said EPA spokeswoman Alisha Johnson.

According to Assistant U.S. Attorney James E. Smith, Beale received a salary, benefits and “retention incentive” bonuses “for which Beale had not earned by providing employment services to the EPA.”

How did Beale, who committed this fraud on his own, manage to do so through four separate presidential terms and with no overlap from any other federal agencies? This just goes to show that federal government agencies are too large to function properly. How are they supposed to efficiently regulate the environmental concerns of entire nation, when they can’t even keep track of a highly known and suspicious employee within their own agency?

Government incompetence only grows, and disgustingly, they’re having us fund it.