WASHINGTON — The Institute for Energy Research submitted today a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concerning agency records on fraudster John C. Beale. In recent months, congressional investigators have sought to uncover the sources of agency management failures that allowed Beale to steal nearly $900,000 from U.S. taxpayers while falsely claiming to serve as a CIA agent. To date, reports have not fully explored the mismanagement of senior EPA officials that allowed — according to a federal sentencing memorandum — the “scale of [Beale's] fraud and deception [to] become even more egregious” under the supervision of then-Assistant Administrator Gina McCarthy.
