RICO Letter Take-down Leads to Congressional Investigation - Granite Grok

RICO Letter Take-down Leads to Congressional Investigation

shukla-photo-google

Jagdish Shukla asked the president (of the United States) to use the threat of racketeering charges to silence scientific dissent. Two weeks later and Shukla faces a congressional investigation.

Chairman Smith: “IGES appears to be almost fully funded by taxpayer money while simultaneously participating in partisan political activity by requesting a RICO investigation of companies and organizations that disagree with the Obama administration on climate change. In fact, IGES has reportedly received $63 million from taxpayers since 2001, comprising over 98 percent of its total revenue during that time.”

In light of the non-profit’s decision to remove the controversial letter from its website, Smith directs IGES to preserve “all e-mail, electronic documents, and data created since January 1, 2009, that can be reasonably anticipated to be subject to a request for production by the Committee.”

The full letter can be found here.

No scare quotes around ‘non-profit.’ That might change,

There’s apparently an $800,000 annual salary and an organization full of Shukla family members that has produced next to no results for the millions received. Even NSF on their own web page acknowledges that only one paper has been produced out of a 4.2 million dollar grant.

Jagdish, you have some-ah-esplainnin’ to doooo. He’s received $63.5 million in taxpayer money over the past 15 years to produce what exactly? Well, a RICO letter, and at least one report from the last $4.2 million dollar grant forked over by the National Science Foundation.

When government works…

Other members of the #RICO20 could be dragged in along side Shukla, Professor James Kinter in particular. Kinter is the second signatory on the letter and  the director of COLA, which is tied to IGES at the hip. More money, more scandal.

NSF, who OK’d the grants, is tied to NOAA and NASA–who are fudging numbers daily to justify things not the least of which has to be the NSF funneling tens of millions to “non-profits” like IGES and COLA to produce think-tank-esque cover for Hansen and companies data manipulation scheme.

This is big. It’s probably bigger than climategate. Time will tell.

>