The Big Green Con –– The Green Corruption Files
Monday, July 31, 2017 by Christine Lakatos
It all began in late 2009 when Christine Lakatos was hired to contribute to the political
book, Killing Wealth, Freeing Wealth How to Save America’s Economy and Your Own,
that was authored by Lee Troxler and Floyd Brown and released May 2010.
The Obama administration has spent hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars –– both
stimulus and non-stimulus funds –– in order to fund their “green” (clean, renewable,
alternative) energy revolution and to combat climate change, what they claim is a clear
and present danger.
There’s the $34B that was doled out via the Department of Energy Loan Guarantee
Program as well as $23B and counting from the Department of Treasury for the 1603
stimulus grants. Besides these government agencies, clean-energy funds are being dished
out of the Department of Defense, the Department of Agriculture, the Environmental
Protection Agency, and others. In the mix there are special federal and state tax breaks
and other “green” programs and subsidies used to fund renewable energy deals.
In short, it’s all about FOLLOWING THE MONEY –– AKA President Obama’s "save
the planet slush fund" –– as well as tracking the colossal climate change, green energy
mandates, rules and regulations, which leads to massive cronyism, corporate welfare and
corruption.
In fact, the “green cash” is being used as political payback –– rewarding "Big Wealthy
Green Cronies."
Political buddies indeed: Winners are those with meaningful political connections to the
president and other high-ranking Democrats and/or their friends.
Since 2010, Lakatos began exposing the Obama Regime’s clean-energy dirt –– aligned
with the Left as well as those that enjoy political "access and influence" –– proving that
this green energy movement, which is all about power and the cash, is the largest, most
expensive and deceptive case of crony capitalism in American history.
Still, this work not only exposes the corruption, but also the deceit, hypocrisy and the
radical agenda behind this BIG GREEN CON!
Nevertheless, it was the 2011 research that Lakatos prepared for two New York Times
bestsellers, Jerome Corsi and Peter Schweizer, that spurred the April 2012 launch of The
Green Corruption Files.
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Since that time, she has unleashed close to 70 blog posts, with the site exceeding 315,000
page views and averaging between 10,000 and 25,000 page views each month.
From June 2012 until March 2014,
Lakatos collaborated with energy
columnist Marita Noon, who is also the
Executive Director at Energy Makes
America Great. Ms. Noon has written
about 25 stories based on green corruption
research –– all published at Townhall.com
as well as other conservative sites.
"Together they have covered Obama’s
Green-Energy Crony-Corruption Scandal more extensively than any other single outlet."
Their combined work has been cited (sometimes multiple times) by an array of
conservatives icons such as Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, Jerome Corsi, John
Hinderaker, John Ransom, Jim Simpson, Daniel Greenfield, and others.
On May 6, 2014, James Delingpole, from Breitbart London, linked to Lakatos’ research
in his piece, "OBAMA'S LAST SHOT – CLIMATE CHANGE – AND WHY IT'S
DOOMED TO FAIL." Meanwhile, shortly thereafter, her work made it on Accuracy in
Media (AIM) by James Simpson: "States Can Stop EPA’s War on Coal."
In July 2014, a “green corruption tip” ended up becoming a bombshell piece by Lachlan
Markay of the Washington Free Beacon –– which was later “spotted” at the House
Financial Services Committee website.
Later, in October 2014 The Green Corruption Files made its way to the desk of Tori
Richards over at Watchdog.org: “Two years later, feds still eyeing Steyer and Musk
companies.”
And in 2015, Lakatos’ work was sited by 100% Fed Up Site, OpentheBooks.com as
well as Fusion4Freedom in a piece called “The green mirage – and con job” by
Paul Driessen and Tom Tamarkin.
It was exciting when Adam Andrzejewski highlighted her expose’ on the U.S. ExportImport Bank and its massive corruption over at Forbes.com this summer: “The Anti ExIm Odd Couple:”
Then there’s Ex-Im “pay-to-play” with a de facto tax deduction over at the Clinton
Foundation. Investigative journalist Christine Lakatos documented the intersection
of Ex-Im officials, corporate beneficiaries and executives, political cash and
relationships, interlocking corporate and Ex-Im board directorates, federal agency
grants, and flow of massive Clinton Foundation gifts. The depth and scope of the
“legalized money laundering schemes” are nauseating.
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Even conservative organizations and online media outlets have cited our research or
featured this work. Those include World Net Daily, the popular and influential Powerline
blog, Accuracy in Media (AIM), The Minority Report, National Review Online,
Townhall.com, Reason Foundation, Institute for Energy Research, Real Clear Energy,
John Locke Foundation, GOP USA, Fox Nation, The Daily Caller, FontPageMag.com,
PJMedia, California Political News and Views, and the Patriot Action Network (PAN).
The Green Corruption Files has been found (sometimes regularly) at the Alliance for
Wise Energy Decisions (AWED), The Energy Depot, RedState.com, NetRightDaily, the
Heartland Institute, Canada Free Press, Liberty Voice, New Hampshire News, Hawaii
Free Press, Natural News, EPA Abuse, OurMoney.Net, MyGovCost.org, and many more.
In the meantime, interviews for print and radio shows have followed, This includes the
Rodger Hedgecock Show, African American Conservatives (AACONS), the David
Madeira Radio Show, Right Side Patriots as well as The American Free Press (the EU
Times), The Daily Caller and many others.
While a special shout out goes to The Strident Conservative and Tory Aardvark for the
ongoing link to this site, please check out the rest of this side panel for The Green
Corruption File sightings …
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MOST POPULAR AND MY FAVS MARKED IN RED
Maybe a variety of topics such as climate change, solar, wind and
biofuel, smart grids money?
Also, there were two nuclear energy loans given out that I wrote about.
Green Corruption began in 2010 at Blogcritics Magazine
1. Obama’s Political Payback: Green Corruption, Part One first
published @ Blogcritics Magazine July 19, 2010; then posted @ The
Green Corruption Files April 28, 2012)
2. Obama’s Political Payback: Green Corruption, Part Two (first
published @ Blogcritics Magazine July 20, 2010; then posted @ The
Green Corruption Files April 28, 2012)
3. Green Corruption: The Plot Thickens (first published @ Blogcritics
Magazine August 7, 2010; then posted at @ the The Green Corruption
Files April 28, 2012)
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At that time, July 19, 2010 to be exact –– I wrote the following:
Alarmingly, our environment has been hijacked by uber-rich
individuals, crooked politicians, and an assortment of left wing
extremists who are fueled by greed and power attached to a
radical agenda to bring about “global governance,”
“redistribute the wealth,” and put the progressive movement ––
big government, social justice and the death of capitalism –– on
the fast track. Under the guise of “saving the planet,” these
players, who are all interconnected in a variety of ways, are
transforming our climate into something more sinister –– a
scam of epic proportions.
The Green Corruption Files: 2012 with 23 Posts
1. April 17, 2012 –– Green Corruption: Department of Energy “Junk
Loans” and Cronyism (first published @ Blogcritics Magazine –– and
then posted Saturday, April 28, 2012 –– also at EPA Abuse on May 1,
2012, California Political News and Views on May 5, 2012, and many
other Conservative sites)
2. May 16, 2012 –– BREAKING: BrightSource Energy Political
Influence and Their $1.6 Billion DOE Loan
3. May 22, 2012 –– BREAKING: NRG Energy on the DOE Cronyism
Hot Seat, Also Tied to George Soros
4. May 25, 2012 –– Lou Dobbs "Shocks" Bill O'Reilly on the Severity of
Obama DOE Crony Capitalism
5. June 11, 2012 –– Obama-Tied Troubled First Solar $3 Billion DOE
Loans Produce Majority of Jobs Oversees, CEO Sold His Own Stock;
Plus More "Clean-Energy Dirt" Exposed
6. June 30, 2012 –– Obama’s Green-Energy, Crony-Corruption Story;
Special Seven, Part 1 Expanded Version
7. July 6, 2012 –– Shining the Light on BrightSource Energy's $1.6
Billion Shady DOE Deal: Special Seven, Part Two
8. July 12, 2012 –– General Electric Making “Bank” off Obama's
“Green” Stimulus Money; Over $3 Billion and Counting / ONE OF
MY FAVS
9. July 15, 2012 –– Senator Harry Reid’s Part in Green-Energy CronyCorruption, Part Three of The Special Seven
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10. July 25, 2012 –– The First Solar Three Billion Dollar Swindle
11. July 26, 2012 –– Recent Oversight Hearing Reveals Shady Email
Practices by Former DOE Loan Advisor Jonathan Silver; Abound
Solar Blames China for its Demise / ONE OF MY FAVS
12. August 8, 2012 –– How Democrats Say "Crony Corruption" in
Spanish: Abengoa UPDATED VERSION
13. August 15, 2012 –– Beacon Bust Tied to Obama Bundler and VP
Hunter, the Infamous Washington Fixture, James A. Johnson / ONE
OF MY FAVS
14. August 18, 2012 –– NextEra Energy: Third Largest Power Company
in the World is the Third Largest Recipient of DOE Risky Loans;
CEO Sits on President Obama's Jobs Council
15. September 21, 2012 –– Obama’s Green Cronies Made DNC Cameo:
Bundlers and Big Donors Tied to Billions of Stimulus Funds / ONE
OF MY FAVS
16. October 15, 2012 –– Special Report Part One: Obama, the Green
Loser; Cronyism Inc.
17. October 15, 2012 –– Special Report Part Two: Obama, the Green
Loser; Cronyism Inc.
18. October 15, 2012 –– Where are the 5 Million Green Jobs Candidate
Obama Promised? ONE OF MY FAVS
19. October 20, 2012 –– Green Alert: Tracking President Obama's Green
Energy Failures / #2 MOST POPULAR & ONE OF MY FAVS,
HOWEVER IN THE “2014 CLEANTECH CRASH” IS THE
UPDATED FAILURES LIST
20. November 1, 2012 –– BREAKING: Newly Released House
Oversight Emails Incriminate White House in Green-Energy Loan
Lies
21. November 5, 2012 –– Busting Open Obama Energy Department's
Den of Deception
22. November 23, 2012 –– DEVELOPING: Department of Energy
Facing "Corruption" Lawsuit, Shocking DOE Emails, and the $8.4
Billion ATVM Program's "Favored Five"
23. December 23, 2012 –– The Green Five: Spreading the Wealth to
Obama’s Ultra-Rich Jobs Council Members; Part One, 10/31/12 DOE
Emails Prove White House Pressure on $1.3 Billion Loan to General
Electric Wind Project
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The Green Corruption Files: 2013 with 23 posts
1. January 8, 2013 –– Green Bank of Obama: John Doerr and Al Gore of
Kleiner Perkins score billions in 'green funds' / #10 MOST
POPULAR & ONE OF MY FAVS
2. January 21, 2013 –– Climate Hawk Senator John Kerry and His Green
Inside Deals
3. January 22, 2013 –– Big Wind Energy Subsidies: A Hurricane of
Carnage, Cronyism and Corruption / #9 MOST POPULAR & ONE
OF MY FAVS
4. February 7, 2013 –– Obama's Jobs Council Closed: Mega-Rich
Member Penny Pritzker "Rumored" for Commerce Job, “Related” to
Two Large Green Corruption Stories
5. February 22, 2013 –– Citigroup’s Massive 'Green' Money Machine
6. February 28, 2013 –– Wall Street Walks all over the Obama White
House
7. March 22, 2013 –– Left-wing Billionaire George Soros: Obama’s
"Agent of Green" / #5 MOST POPULAR & ONE OF MY FAVS
8. April 1, 2013 –– SoloPower: Another Department of Energy “Junk
Loan” Teetering with Over $250 Million of Taxpayer Money
9. April 11, 2013 –– Newly Bankrupt Chinese Solar Producer Suntech,
Stimulus Tax Credit Winner and Contractor to Energy Department’s
$337 million Junk Loan: a Tiny Fraction of Obama’s “Green
Outsourcing"
10.April 24, 2013 –– Failing Fisker Auto Finally Faces House Oversight
Hearing: Chairman Jordan Exposes Another DOE Junk Loan,
Declares, "Fisker should have never received taxpayer money”
11.May 9, 2013 –– Americans Bothered By the Way our Government
Spends Taxes: Billions Burned on Obama's Green Energy
12.May 29, 2013 –– Smart Gird, Dirty Devices: With "friends" in the
White House, Silver Spring Networks linked to at least $1.3 billion of
smart-grid stimulus grants
13.June 10, 2013 –– Transparency Alert: Obama political appointees
across many agencies using 'secret' email accounts to conduct govt
business; DOE included
14.June 15, 2013 –– The Green Corruption Files Snags Special Gig on
AACONS' Radio Broadcast
15.June 30, 2013 –– Nuclear Crimes and Misdemeanors
16.July 13, 2013 –– Nuclear Disaster: $10.33 billion in energy loans
pressured by the White House and POTUS approved, now at risk
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17.July 24, 2013 –– Subsidizing Obama’s Algae: Its advisors and allies
18.August 19, 2013 –– Billions of Obama biofuel bucks funded "not so
shovel-ready" risky projects, fueled by more green corruption / ONE
OF MY FAVS
19.September 13, 2013 –– Top D.C. Lobbyist McBee Strategic
Consulting “opened the spigot of green corporate welfare;” then
billions of stimulus cash flooded the firm’s energy clients
20.September 28, 2013 –– Virginia Governor Dem Candidate Terry
McAuliffe’s GreenTech Auto: small eco-car, big green scam?
21.October 15, 2013 –– The RAT in the Recovery and the Gang of Ten
22.November 16, 2013 –– Underneath Senator Harry Reid’s CleanEnergy Dirt: Career politician directly linked to over $3 billion in
green energy stimulus loans / #3 MOST POPULAR & ONE OF
MY FAVS
23.December 15, 2013 –– Clean Energy, Dirty Money: Green corruption
in review
The Green Corruption Files: 2014 with 13 posts
1. January 20, 2014 –– 'Cleantech Crash': CBS Lesley Stahl 'exhausted'
after listing nine Obama-backed green energy failures, try 32 and
counting / ONE OF MY FAVS because it has the most recent
number of failures (and green jobs failure as well as green energy
outsourcing), of which I’d like to update some day
2. March 3, 2014 –– Podesta Power and Center for American Progress:
The dark, driving force behind the president’s massive green energy
scheme / #6 MOST POPULAR & ONE OF MY FAVS
3. March 30, 2014 –– SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the Obama
Administration's Big Green Energy Deals With Abengoa: The cost,
the connections and the collusion
4. March 30, 2014 –– American Taxpayers, Workers and Vendors
Screwed by Spanish Conglomerate Abengoa that Snagged Billions in
US Green Energy Stimulus Funds / #7 MOST POPULAR & ONE
OF MY FAVS
5. April 13, 2014 –– Abengoa Atrocities, the Sequel: California Mojave
Solar Project is ‘dangerous,’ engineers assert / #1 MOST POPULAR
& ONE OF MY FAVS
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6. May 3, 2014 –– Whistleblowers Expose Rampant Corruption Inside
Spanish Conglomerate Abengoa Subsidized with Billions in U.S.
Green Energy Stimulus Funds / #8 MOST POPULAR & ONE OF
MY FAVS
7. June 1, 2014 –– Clean Energy; Dirty Money: Green Corruption in
Review (UPDATED)
8. July 12, 2014 –– SolarCity: Subsidizing the Left’s ‘green’ millionaires
and billionaires
9. August 10, 2014 –– Another Taxpayer-funded ‘Green’ Gamble:
Energy Department doles out $150 million to Cape Wind’s expensive,
risky offshore wind project tied to high-profile Democrats
10.September 6, 2014 –– Liberal Billionaire Tom Steyer: Dems' 'Cash for
Climate Change' / ONE OF MY FAVS
11.October 2, 2014 –– 2014 Midterm Election Alert: Dem billionaire Eco
Super PAC waging war on GOP candidates associated with
billionaires
12.October 31, 2014 –– Ebola: Solyndra is dead and politics is alive
13.November 16, 2014 –– Not Enough Sun Shining at California Ivanpah
Solar Plant: $1.6 billion shady stimulus deal tied to numerous wealthy
Obama cronies now expect $539 million of free taxpayer cash / #4
MOST POPULAR & ONE OF MY FAVS
Marita Noon about 28 columns on the Green-Energy Crony-Corruption
Scandal, which began in June 2012 and ended March 2014 –– only made
possible by Christine Lakatos' research
1. Crony Capitalism and President Obama: How the System Really
Works (originally published: 6/10/2012)
2. Obama’s Green-Energy Crony-Corruption (originally published:
6/29/2012)
3. More Obama Green Energy Corruption (originally published:
7/6/2012)
4. Senator Harry Reid’s Part in Green-Energy Crony-Corruption
(originally published: 7/14/2012)
5. The First Solar Swindle (originally published: 7/21/2012)
6. How Democrats Say “Crony Corruption” in Spanish: Abengoa
(originally published: 8/4/2012)
7. Third Largest Power Company in the World is the Third Largest
Recipient of Risky Loans (originally published: 8/17/2012)
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8. Obama Never Admits Green Energy Failures (originally published:
9/30/2012)
9. Romney to Obama: “You Pick the Losers” (originally published:
10/7/2012)
10.Obama’s Green Energy Jobs Promise: 355 Jobs and Counting
(originally published: 10/14/2012)
11.Emails Catch White House Lie on Green-Energy Loans (originally
published: 11/1/2012)
12.Busting Open Energy’s Den of Deception (originally published:
11/4/2012)
13.Exclusive: DOE Corruption—Appointed and Elected Officials Should
Face Prison Time (originally published: 11/25/2012)
14.Inside Deals Mar John Kerry for State (originally published:
1/21/2013)
15.Wall Street Walks on The White House (originally published:
2/24/2013)
16.Obama Creates More Wealth for Green Crony Soros (originally
published: 3/31/13)
17.On Earth Day, Let’s Waste More Money (originally published
4/22/13)
18.Fisker: a free ride to make flashy cars in Finland (originally published
4/28/13)
19.A six-pack of scandals (originally published 5/19/13)
20.Green Energy’s Too Expensive (originally published: 7/14/2013)
21.The dirty politics of “clean” energy (originally published 7/28/2013)
22.The Macker—deal maker, not a car maker (or even a job creator)
(originally published 9/29/13)
23.Harry Reid's Personal Green Goldmine (originally published 12/9/13)
24.Obama Doctrine: Reward Friends, Punish Enemies (originally
published 12/22/13)
25.Annoying Greenie on defense (originally published: 1/12/2014)
26.SOTU: When All of the Above Has Nothing Above the Neckline
(originally published: 2/2/2014)
27.Wealthy Environmentalists Push Democrat Harry Reid to Lean-in to
Green Energy (originally published: 3/10/2014)
28.Abengoa Solar: Obama’s green energy projects fail, even when they
are successful (published at The Daily Caller on April 14, 2014)
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The Green Corruption Files: 2015 with 7 posts
1. January 1, 2015 –– Two Big White House 'Green' Cronies Unite:
First Wind scored over $700 million of stimulus funds, now being
acquired by SunEdison
2. February 17, 2015 –– Obama Administration Fueling Friends and
Failure: At least $10 billion of taxpayer money blown on ‘green’
cars, NOT so ‘green’
3. March 24, 2015 –– Climate Change: The Obama Regime’s neverending fear mongering campaign / ONE OF MY FAVS
4. April 11, 2015 –– Energy Department Fuels More Corporate
Welfare: Awards politically connected corporate giant Alcoa $259
million 'green' car loan
5. May 4, 2015 –– Back to the Future: A sneak peek into Hillary
Clinton’s climate change cronies
6. May 19, 2015 –– Media Frenzy Over ABC George
Stephanopoulos' Undisclosed Clinton Foundation Donations:
What about the PBS connections?
7. June 22, 2015 –– Inside Job: Export-Import Bank financing
themselves, their friends and Obama-Clinton wealthy 'green'
cronies / ONE OF MY FAVS
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Short Bio
Christine Lakatos is an ACE Certified Fitness Trainer (1995) and
consultant with experience in the health and fitness industry since
1980. She even authored a diet book in 2008.
Lakatos, whom was a track-star in her younger years, picked up
sports again in her late 20’s. She is a retired bodybuilder and
fitness competitor, whom competed from 1989 to 1995, winning
titles such as Ms. San Luis Obispo 1989, Ms. Fitness San Diego
1993, Ms. Fitness USA Top Ten (1990), and many more. She was
also an American Gladiator contestant in 1990.
She’s a mother of two awesome daughters and a proud Christian.
She loves learning and has been known to study the bible
frequently. She’s also an animal lover –– so it’s no wonder that
she has three dogs.
In 2009, as a strong conservative and concerned citizen,
Lakatos began activism in politics by first becoming a
writer for Blogcritics Magazine, covering an array of
issues from the Tea Party rise, to ObamaCare, homeland
security, earmark reform, as well as hot topics of the
day.
By 2010, she began unleashing her green energy
research and its subsequent cronyism and corruption that
eventually lead to the formation of The Green
Corruption Files in April 2012.
Her political volunteer works includes participating in
the 2010 Midterm elections by helping the California
Republican Party “Get out the Vote” in San Luis
Obispo, California as well as tweeting for Tim
Donnelly’s 2014 run for California Governor.
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