The RICO 20 letter is turning into a real fiasco:
The originator of the RICO letter is trying to make it disappear now:
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2015/09/29/the-letter-they-tried-to-hide/
Roger Pielke Jr & Steve McIntyre were prompted to take a look at the RICO letter originator:
http://climateaudit.org/2015/09/28/shuklas-gold/
Anthony Watts & Bishop Hill on the case:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/09/30/backfire-on-the-rico20-and-jagadish-shukla-is-imminent-wagon-circling-climbdown-dissolution-begins/
Now, instead of explaining why the RICO 20 letter was mysteriously withdrawn from the IGES website after questions began to be asked about the millions of dollars that George Mason’s Jagadish Shukla apparently has received, some of it while apparently “double dipping” against university policy, all the while claiming climate skeptics are the recipients of money that should be prosecuted under the RICO act, we find this curious missive posted in place of the RICO20 letter at the URL where it previously resided:
[ Not only is Shukla hiding his RICO letter, he's disbanding the grant funded organization that's been making his family rich. ]
Source: http://www.iges.org/letter/LetterPresidentAG.pdf
“Inadvertently placed on this web site”? I think not, especially since that URL was the “go to” given in their press release about the letter and referenced in numerous news outlets, without so much as a peep of a correction for over a month while that story ran wild. All of the sudden it was posted in the wrong place?
I call that explanation “BS of the highest order”. He got caught with his pants down, tables have turned, and now its damage control, and badly done damage control at that, since the actions are making the situation with Shukla even more suspect.
Then there’s the apparent nepotism going on with all that public money used to fund Shukla’s climate dreams:
IGES Personnel:
President Shukla, Jagadish
Business Manager Shukla, Anastasia (wife)
Assistant Business Manager Shukla, Sonia (daughter)
Director, COLA Kinter, James
Assistant to the President Shukla, Sonia (two jobs for the daughter)
Source: http://www.iges.org/aboutiges.html
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As Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. Tweeted:
People that live in Greenhouses shouldn’t cast stones.
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Misc comments:
Bishop Hill notes:
You can imagine the horror on the signatories’ faces when they realised that some very determined people were about to take a close interest in their financial arrangements and those of their colleagues at IGES.
I’m not sure taking the letter down is going to help much though.
Gary says:
September 29, 2015 at 6:17 pm
Looks like Trenberth is about to find some missing heat.
Gerry Gitchell says:
September 29, 2015 at 4:02 pm
I was a CFO at a foundation for 8 years and am very familiar with the tax returns. It is always interesting to look at the 990’s. I remember the first one I delved into after entering the non-profit sector after years in private enterprise was the Carter Foundation. I expected that the numbers would prove virtuous and in fact they proved the opposite. After 8 years I came to the conclusion that the businesses that I worked for were more ethical than the non-profits. Not because those at the top were more ethical but because non-profits lacked vested stakeholders to help drive efficiency. I also found that in general those in business had a need to do outside altruism (volunteering) while those in non-profit felt their work was more than enough and that in fact society owed “them” because they were overworked and underpaid having chosen a career in the “common good”.
The IGES 990 is so typical of non-profits. As Yogi Berra said “nepotism is ok as long as it stays in the family”
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