Federal prosecutors have rejected The Heartland Institute's demands for action against Peter Gleick, who phished up evidence of Anthony Watts demanding a hundred grand for a campaign to disinform gradeschoolers about basic climate science.
Though the law found nothing criminal in Gleick's fishing expedition, it remains a crime story: as his chief accuser, Heartland Institute 'Science Director' Jay Lehr , has been exposed as a convicted felon who served a Federal prison sentence for, wait for it:
defrauding the EPA of over $100,000 !
As the American Water Research Association noted at the time :
in 1991, Lehr resigned as executive director of the National Water Well Association and pleaded guilty to authorizing overcharges of $101,000 (by falsifying employee timesheets) to an EPA contract while he served as NWWA's ED.
He and former Finance Director Keith Lelux were fined and sentenced to six months in prison, which they both served.
Since Lehr's Heartland friends tried to railroad Gleick :
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While the law has no quarrel with Gleick Heartland President Joe Bast talks about him as though he were Heartland Science Director Lehr: " One of the biggest frauds committed by a scientist in the past year generated nary a peep of criticism from the scientific community. The criminal, who admitted to committing crimes that are punishable by years of imprisonment, continues to write and speak... His career hasn’t been adversely affected at all." http://aquadoc.typepad.com/waterwired/2012/05/heartland-institute-twofer-1-nice-billboards-2-dr-jay-lehrs-rant-lets-phase-out-epa.html |
