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Senator Harry Reid’s Part in Green-Energy Crony-Corruption

Zdravko Wrote: Jul 14, 2012 1:30 PM

These are some of Obama’s “green energy” enterprises financed by taxpayers: Solar Trust of America: bankrupt; Bright Source: bankrupt; Solyndra: bankrupt - ($535 Million); LSP Energy: (Light Squared); bankrupt; Energy Conversion Devices: bankrupt; Abound Solar: bankrupt; SunPower: bankrupt; Beacon Power: bankrupt; Ecotality: bankrupt; A123 Solar: bankrupt; Azure Dynamics: bankrupt; Evergreen Solar: ($5.3 Million); bankrupt; Ener1: bankrupt; Geothermal Power ($98.5 million); bankrupt; Embraer of Brazil ($1 billion); gone; Siga Technology Inc ($433 million); bankrupt; Granite Reliable Wind Generation ($168.9 million); bankrupt; Tonopah Solar Company - Crescent Dunes ($737 million); bankrupt; CH2M Hill ( $2 Billion); bankrupt

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Senator Harry Reid’s Part in Green-Energy Crony-Corruption

So far our chronicle of the green-energy crony-corruption story, has focused primarily on the connections the players have to President Obama. This chapter stars Senator Harry Reid. When looking at the whole story, it’s important to note that Senator Reid “led passage of the $814 billion stimulus bill and worked to include the loan guarantee program to help finance clean-energy projects”—projects to which, as we will show, he is connected.

In a DOE press release, Reid actually bragged about how he included the green loan guarantee in the stimulus bill: “As I led passage of the stimulus bill,...