We told you Sunday night about Jagadish Shukla, the taxpayer-financed George Mason Univ. meteorologist trying to get President Obama and AG Lynch to use RICO laws to prosecute those critical or skeptical of global-warming science.
Well now we have more information to report on how much worse Shukla is for taxpayers.
Here’s more from Roger Pielke Jr. who dug up details on the finances of IGES.com, the nonprofit run by Shukla and his wife. In summary, taxpayers paid Shukla and his family $800,000 to “oversee” only $1.4 million in “actual research”:
More #RICO20
-2013 http://t.co/8AyISFpIzz received $4.2M in public $
-passed thru $2.8M for research
-$800k salary to 3 execs ($600k other)— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) September 21, 2015
#RICO20
-2013 http://t.co/8AyISFpIzz paid husband/wife $547,022 for part-time
-Also employed 2 daughters
-On top of GMU salary $250,866— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) September 21, 2015
#RICO20
-2013 http://t.co/8AyISFpIzz paid husband/wife $547,022 for part-time
-Also employed 2 daughters
-On top of GMU salary $250,866— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) September 21, 2015
If pass thru research money to GMU has standard overhead, then only 33% of the $4.2M in public money actually goes to research #RICO20
— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) September 21, 2015
So the US government is paying 3 people $800k
to oversee $1.4M
in actual research
(best case scenario)
#RICO20— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) September 21, 2015
#RICO20 data source for previous tweets:
1- http://t.co/5RAFT0IwBZ
2- http://t.co/p3BZfb49D5— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) September 21, 2015
I am not an investigative reporter. I would love to meet one someday. Even on Twitter.
— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) September 21, 2015
The good news is that investigative reporters (well, one of them anyway) are starting to take a look. Lachlan Markay of the Washington Free Beacon writes today that the nonprofit cited above run by Shukla has received over $63 millon in taxpayer money since 2001:
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/646337260233711617
It is time to open a RICO investigation. But open one on Shukla, not those skeptical of his science.
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