www.nbcnews.com/news/other/climate-change-expert-sentenced-32-months-fraud-says-lying-was-f2D11768995

Climate change expert sentenced to 32 months for fraud, says lying was a 'rush'

The EPA’s highest-paid employee and a leading expert on climate change was sentenced to 32 months in federal prison
Wednesday for lying to his bosses and saying he was a CIA spy working in Pakistan so he could avoid doing his real job.

John C. Beale’s crimes were “inexplicable” and “unbelievably egregious," said Judge Ellen Huvelle in imposing the sentence
in a Washington. D.C. federal court. Beale has also agreed to pay $1.3 million in restitution and forfeiture to the government.

Beale said he was ashamed of his lies about working for the CIA, a ruse that, according to court records, began in 2000 and
continued until early this year.

 Beale pled guilty in September to bilking the government out of nearly $1 million in salary and other benefits over a decade.
He perpetrated his fraud largely by failing to show up at the EPA for months at a time, including one 18-month stretch starting
in June 2011 when he did “absolutely no work,” as his lawyer acknowledged in a sentencing memo filed last week.

When Huvelle asked Beale what he was doing when he claimed he was working for the CIA, he said, "I spent time exercising.
I spent a lot of time working on my house."

He also said he used the time "trying to find ways to fine tune the capitalist system" to discourage companies from damaging
the environment. "I spent a lot of time reading on that," said Beale.

 

WTF!

WTF!

From 2000 to early 2013.

Article is from Dec 2013.  A bit old, but since this is the first time I saw it, it screamed for attention.   

People say the government will do background checks on gun buyers, checks on Syrian refugees, let the IRS manage 1/6th of the US economy via the ACA (Obamacare), and needs a blank check to run up the debt every year.

When you see stories like this where basic common sense takes a backseat to fraud, waste and abuse FOR 13 years?  And they bought the "I'm a spy" line, which should have been a no-brainer to verify?

The government continues to demonstrate in case after case, it's just to big too manage.

Could this have been his motivation?

Sure there is incompetency but within the last 8 yrs. (for some reason ) most of so called fed  justice is orchestrated for political means much like a dictatorship.
Key test will be the indictment of HRC.   If DOJ does not indict, watch Comey and others resign.