WFB:
President Joe Biden’s green energy loan czar struggled to explain his relationship with a trade association he founded that has been selling companies access to him at paid private events, during a Senate Energy Committee hearing on Thursday.
Since 2022, Jigar Shah, the head of the Department of Energy’s $400 billion Loan Programs Office, has headlined at least 10 paid dinners and events for loan-seeking companies hosted by Cleantech Leaders Roundtable, a green tech trade group that he founded in 2017, the Washington Free Beacon reported earlier this month.
Shah’s DOE office and Cleantech Leaders also co-hosted an invitation-only conference in Washington, D.C., for companies looking for loans in early October—and Cleantech Leaders was in charge of the invite list and ticket sales.
Shah appeared flustered when questioned about the relationship and was left speechless at one point in the hearing. His testimony comes as Republican lawmakers and the DOE inspector general are ramping up investigations into conflicts of interest at the Loan Programs Office, a previously small department whose influence and funding has ballooned under the Biden administration. more
THANK YOU, JOSH HAWLEY!!
NOW DON’T GO ALL TOM COTTON ON US, WE’RE RUNNING OUT OF CONSERVATIVES
Shah wasn’t smart enough to come up with a bullshit statement that the MSM could go with, so he just sat there like he’d shit his pants.
DOE, another useless government acronym that likes to make de facto laws through regulation. The whole department should be deep sixed along with the EPA.
I’m sure he’ll be shown the door, arraigned, put on trial and jailed if found guilty. The Brandon regime doesn’t play fast and loose with taxpayer funds and will not put up with these kinds of shenanigans.
Just kidding. None of that will likely happen. Carry on. Business as usual.
One of the dirty bastards on the “Cleantech” board who is also part of Sunnova Bitch Energy…
All of this Global Warming, Clean, Green stuff is one big ruse and money grab!
Seized up?
Obviously he needs more oil to be a truely oily, deceitful democRAT!